filmed as the corona virus outbreak is just beginning. the facts are. exposing this secrecy and censorship by chinese authorities. and a health system struggling to cope i'll just see the investigation 3 dates that stop the world. this is al jazeera. television club this is the news on live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes donald trump is expected to face a senate trial after becoming the 1st president to be impeached twice he's charged with inciting an insurrection. warning of large scale for the u.n. calls on the u.s. to reverse its terrorist designation for given. the polls close in uganda's

election pitting a long time lead you where did mr vanier get popstar probably why. we look at the current economic and political situation in 10 years on from an uprising that led to the throat of its longtime leader. for the day. $100.00 metres hurdles champion brianna mcneill is provisionally suspended for breaking the rules. so we begin in the u.s. where donald trump faces another senate trial after becoming the 1st american president to be impeached a 2nd time on wednesday the house of representatives for me charged him with inciting an insurrection after his supporters stormed the u.s. capitol building to try and prevent the certification of joe biden's election victory 10 republicans broke ranks and. democrats to vote for impeachment well it's

just 6 days to go until biden's inauguration the top republican in the senate mitch mcconnell says he won't order politicians to reconvene for trump's trial before he leaves the white house if convicted trump could be barred from holding future office quashing any ambition for a comeback well security of the u.s. capitol and other federal buildings in washington has been bolstered amid warnings that further attacks could take place but the across the country well we're going to see reporters covering the story bill how it is standing by there in richmond virginia where the state capitol has been boarded up announces a patient brought sunfish a right there at the white house we'll go to him in a 2nd but 1st let's cross over to hide your castro who's the capitol hill and heidi so we're face of this rose strange situation of the president trumps impeachment trial taking place once he's left office. that's right now this is a going to be a historic undertaking this is the only soon to be former president who will be

held to a trial for impeachment and when that trial begins really at this point is uncertain because mitch mcconnell the current senate majority leader has said he will not use emergency powers to call senators back into session any time between now and probably the inauguration he said this was because there was no way to get a final verdict before trump leaves office anyway and he wants to focus this next week on the biden transition now what this means is that once biden is in the white house we're going to have a dramatically different political landscape here in washington not only in the executive branch but here in capitol hill with democrats also about to take the majority in the senate and so it will be up to the democratic majority led by chuck schumer who will likely work in tandem with joe biden to schedule and. mesh out the

details of this impeachment trial biden has said he wants the 1st focus of congress to become confirming his cabinet appointees his national security team and passing coburg relief legislation so that leaves us with 2 potential roads for this trial to take one is that it could happen in conjunction with the senate taking up those other orders of business or perhaps a trial half the day the other half other senate business or it might mean that this trial is delayed even further to an uncertain day perhaps even past the one heard the 1st 100 days of biden's administration that will be a historic endeavor again this there's never been a former president 'd who's been put on an impeachment trial and trump was also of course the only u.s. president to be impeached twice and once he is put on trial there will be a 1st for him to he likely will be scared because there is

a possibility that he could be convicted this time as opposed to that 1st of pietschmann when we heard mitch mcconnell the senate majority leader again saying that he was not going to be an impartial juror and in fact he worked with the white house to almost assure that trouble be acquitted well this time around mcconnell has said he has not ruled out a conviction that means he may be giving cover to more senate republicans that could also vote to convict ultimately make we would need 17 senate republicans to break ranks from. former president present and trump in the future trial to say to seal his conviction which would have the practical impact of barring trump from returning to public office and stopping him from phil fulfilling any other political ambitions or how do things with so that's pure couple 100 year custer the let's switch over to the white house standing by there or not and this is just not how it was supposed to be for donald trump is it's in the well because it's

a place where the champion twitter sphere. well the intention was that the last 34 weeks of the trump presidency would be about highlighting what the administration see is their successes that's part of the reason why he traveled to the border on tuesday to hail the 640 kilometers of the border wall he had promised of course to build it from sea to shining sea so fell well short of that he also didn't get mexico to pay for it but the whole idea was to highlight how well his immigration policies had what they were going to talk about the economy they were going to talk about the environment they were going to talk about it is where they could point some would say rightly to successes for donald trump all of this of course has been absolutely wiped off the map because of what happened last wednesday and it's really been a case of the last week or so of really damage control it got to the extent on whedon's day according to the new york times that donald trump was so frustrated by the defense that was being put forward for him that he decided he was going to go

to the house floor and defend himself eventually talked out of that by aides and of course it was very telling that many of the republicans that stewed up to say these shouldn't impeach donald trump there was no real defense of his actions last wednesday sent lee a few said that his words didn't reach the level of incitement that he talked about peaceful protests but many of them were very critical including kevin mccarthy who of course is the leader of the republicans in the house he said that donald trump would have to bear some responsibility for what happened that was a real surprise and of course he said the idea that was being peddled by right wing sites that. the left wing organization the left wing group had been behind the protests and it infiltrated trump supporters was a simply just nonsense and that is perhaps a sign of frustration with donald trump that he continues to go on to say that he lost the election and in the video message that was released late on wednesday

there was no congratulations to joe biden noid knowledge meant the. he had won a fear and free election nor invitation to joe biden to come to the white house or even a suggestion that that would be a phone call between the 2 that still hasn't happened and so this is not the transition that donald trump and his administration wanted but then they never wanted a transition they wanted to win a 2nd term and they couldn't quite believe when that didn't happen right away the transition that is taking place is for democrat joe biden of course to assume the presidency and next wednesday in 6 days time what about the situation with the republican party as a whole from that moment on. well over the last 4 years the republican party has become the party of trump he has often perhaps overstated his importance of an endorsement here or there but he set unli high as the core of the republican

support and here in the united states if someone wants to run for congress and said right i'm going to be a republican i'm going to run for congress they tend to face a primary election where the republican voters in that area in that state decide which of the republicans they want and more often than not in the last 34 years people have tried to trump trump in fact there was one congresswoman who was recently elected in arizona who said that she was going to be trump in a skirt that is the sort of line that they have pushed so that the republican party has become the party of trump but we saw the split we saw it in the congress on on wednesday at this time around there were republican votes against donald trump in favor of impeachment we know that the leader of the senate mitch mcconnell has said that he will look at the evidence he was before a year ago in the impeachment hearings they're an impartial juror and so there is

a feeling that the power of donald trump is perhaps ebbing away and certainly he's become toxic because the trumpet ministration have lost in the last 2448 hours their global lawyers and their bankers and the number of contracts and it looks as if that may continue for some time people angry at donald trump so while the likes of jim jordan suggest that his power is still exists it looks as if the party is becoming fractured between those who remain loyal to donald trump and those who believe it's time to move on if there is one glimmer of hope for the republicans with this schism splitting them apart it is with the republicans losing control of the house. the senate and the white house when the democrats come forward with a policy the me well unite to try and defeat that that is their hope particularly as already we're talking about the 2022 midterm elections and whether or not that

is something that donald trump can influence or whether it will be a referendum on the 1st 2 years of joe biden that before he's even sworn in brazil i think are out and thanks for that and fisher there in just outside the white house says go over to richmond virginia we've got to have it there are protests expected across the states on inauguration day what are you seeing there in virginia. well certainly this is quite a peculiar fear here in richmond just behind me is the capitol building and you can see that all around it has been completely sealed off the windows and the doors have been boarded up now this is a scene that you probably see in all 50 capital cities around do united states because of what the f.b.i. said that it had credible information that large scale protests were expected as soon as this coming weekend and actually to secretary of safety here in the state

of virginia has warned that they could be potentially large and violent protests not only on sunday but also on monday that he said that there was credible information that several far right groups like the proud boys would be coming to richmond on sunday and then on monday having some sort of caravan protests around this city an industry enough when you go around this city there is barely anyone there is the also the the issue of the pandemic so people are staying off the streets but there's also that sense of insecurity and you see all these banners around a city ways says that it is it's not it is actually forbidden to walk around with any visible weapons that in a culture where the 2nd amendment is very important so and in this state actually which is actually very go on friendlies and that gives you an idea of how much

tensions are heightening what the authorities are bracing themselves for potentially a lot of problems and people we spoke to said that they were actually extremely worried. fans very much and if you go to a horrible home in the richmond virginia. that's enough for me i know kohan who is a professor of north drexel university and currently a visiting scholar at the university of california school of law he says the impeachment trial could see trump leave politics whether he's convicted or not it is a pretty. fragile moment certainly over the next week before. donald trump leaves office there is a lot of anxiety about what might happen over the next week wow the government might respond in the interim what level of preparedness the various government agencies have to deal with the circumstances that we find ourselves in but i do think that there's tremendous potential for things to settle down once the

transition has taken place and we have been you would ministration and a new congress that certainly was you know not as if magically in this moment disappears. but i think that there are there is tremendous potential to move on because i think there's a great desire that we have this environment in which just information is spread quite readily. and you know these are deeper deeper problems that we will have to under the coming years. but you know donald trump himself i think he will problem i mean there's a high likelihood that you will be gone from the scene if he is convicted there is he faces the prospect of being disqualified but even if he is not convicted there is still provision in the constitution to disqualify under the 14th amendment individuals who engaged in insurrection or rebellion. well nearly

a 1000000 americans filed for 1st time jobless claims last week that is the highest figure since mid august that pandemic has had an unprecedented effect on the economy a subject at the heart of donald trump's presidency of course the fallout means the incoming administration will have a long road to recovery rob reynolds takes a look at trump's economic legacy. in the trump era tax cuts deregulation and low interest rates made the rich richer much much richer everyone else not so much the net effect of his economic policies has been that he's transferred an enormous amount of wealth from lower income in a working class americans to the top 10 percent the top one percent the most important thing that you did was a massive tax cut in 2007 tane the benefit of the wealthiest americans for example tesla founder elon musk added $132000000000.00 to his wealth over the

past 12 months from 2017 to 2019 the stock market boom and unemployment fell. then came the pandemic and an uncoordinated federal and state response that led to business shutdowns and mass unemployment in my opinion research now earlier and all of those of dr new sabrina johnson is a freelance personal trainer in los angeles as the coronavirus took hold gyms closed and she became unemployed and nearly became homeless there came a time you mines i still manage my own employ me. and i will. burn through almost all my savings and that. is kind of like you're paying the bills. and it's. my bank you know. and your and meanwhile right and then i see the disinfectant but not in

a minute one minute and is there a way we can do something. by injection troops rejection of scientific expertise his refusal to come up with a coherent nationwide strategy and his politicize zation of mass wearing helped make the us. yes the worst affected country in the world us we have. approximately 2526000000 workers who been hardship so huge share of the labor force over 315 percent of workers are suffering today directly as a result of the corona recession compare that with japan where a culvert 9000 public education campaign and widespread mask wearing helped prevent major shutdowns as of late december fewer than 80000 japanese workers had become unemployed amidst the pandemic trump leaves an economy in ruins one that will take

years to repair robert oulds al jazeera los angeles. plenty more still ahead on the news hour including. experts arrive in china as we want to study the origins of the corona virus outbreak as questions are raised over the efficacy of a chinese fantasy. we take you to turkey where health care workers and other high risk groups are 1st in line to get vaccinated against corona virus. and the limbic champion swimmer cute keller is involved into the siege of the u.s. capitol building gemma will have those details in sport. so now the u.n. is in the u.s. to reverse its decision to designate yemen's hooty rebels a terrorist group citing concerns of a large scale famine the designation is due to come into effect on january the 19th

secretary of state on paper says the aim is to hold you think rebels accountable for what the u.s. says are terrorist acts the u.n. fears the designation will prevent aid from getting to those who need it the most. the data shows that 60000000 people are angry this year already about 50000 are essentially starving to death in much essentially a small. amount of 5000000 in just one step behind. every decision the world makes right now must take this into account or let's cross now to kristen salumi who's at the u.n. kristen the u.n. clearly very concerned about this designation. absolutely yeah man was already considered the world's worst humanitarian catastrophe martin griffith saying there that this could push yemen over the edge into widespread famine and the u.s.

labeling the iranian back to these as a terrorist organization is dangerous to food insecurity because 90 percent of food in yemen is imported and the concern is that even though aid agencies find a lot of this food to get in they rely on commercial networks business is basically that may be afraid to do business in yemen now as a result of this u.s. designation at the very least it will disrupt supply chains it will raise prices and that could cause these businesses to pull out of the country altogether virtually eliminating much of the food supply for a country that is already on the brink of starvation this has been widely condemned by aid agencies including the world food program which is headed by an american david beasley we are here drug dealing with out the designation

with the designation. is going to be catastrophic it literally is going to be in the senate for hundreds of thousands if not millions of innocent people in yemen. now the united states has promised to work with the aid agencies in order to keep food flowing into the country granting waivers and so on . this step the united states has argued my pompei of the secretary of state has argued is necessary because the peace process has yielded very little in the way of concrete results in yemen it can also be seen as the last salvo of the trump administration's maximum pressure campaign on iran that actually the designation won't go into effect until january 19th the day before joe biden is due to take office and already these calls to reverse the decision are being directed at the

president elect unfortunately many people here at the united nations are warning that damage even if he does overturn the designation damage to the yemeni people will already have been done are christian thanks very much because as we were there at the u.n. polls have closed in uganda the general election long queues form before polling stations open later than planned they stayed busy president you had to use a penny who's been in power for 35 years he has 6 term in office but he is facing a serious challenge from optician he did the wine 2 days ago social media was switched off but yes that is. blocked out this is one of the many efforts that gentleman 70 is doing to make sure that we vote in the dock to make sure that uganda script doubt is in the dark about uganda let's set a course to govern so he joins us live from the capital kampala and catherine the

electoral commission has spoken to the polls close what they have to say. yes the chairman of the electoral commission made that dress and the dress after the completion of voting and he thinks that. the process has largely been more than a few leak up here and they're. voting the tools in some polling stations in other stations barometric identification. field but then he said all that was shorter and a few pointing stations where voting did not take place that is going to happen tomorrow now all day there has been concerns raised by ugandans about how results are going to be transmitted without internet which has been shut down he talked about that and said that the commission is using i think stem that does not require that intimately the internet for transmission now counting is going on in pawling

stations after the county they're going to take those results to district centers for very very few cases and and collation then from there these results are going to be transmitted to maine tallying since i hear income and electoral commission says that we expect to get to get a declaration of the final results on academic. intimidation violence against both government and opposition supporters. yes there has been we have seen pre-election violence police and the military and security forces in general have been accused of using excessive force on the opposition leaders and their supporters in november of 54 people were killed in protests after bobby wine was arrested we have seen positions he does like patrick moriarity who has been

arrested more people times have been blocked from attending his rallies and so on but government officials i've spoken to also accusing the opposition they say some of this leader some of these opposition leaders and their supporters have flouted onto the regulations some of the process has been very violent. police have been attacked by some process of the stomach officials tell us but already all this is causing is raising issues about the credibility of the poor we have had from the u.s. the european union who are saying that the process is already tainted and it lacks transparency and accountability the u.n. has raised concerns local civil society groups and human rights groups have also raised concern the lot of people here are worried that if these results the presidential results are contested the tension we could see more violence.

paula. still ahead here on al-jazeera charged with treason why opponents of cambodia's government are calling i love coming mass trial a sham. and atop a motorcycle contender runs out of fuel at the dakar rally but it was concussion to play gemma has a story coming up in support. of . a recent thunderstorms in western society feasible to flooding around mecca and look at this repeat potential performance as well the weak little trough giving showers as far west as mecca probably as far east as riyadh bahrain but not much to it i don't think they've gone through saturday and sunday that the active weather returns to the eastern med and to turkey that's quite stormy easily be snow in the

high ground some parts of syria more especially turkey and into levant that strong wind will mean rain or showers now bench that might make its way eastwards but on saturday probably not we've seen a lot of rain this season this year if you like in the movie here and it shouldn't really often come to this west coast which is a cold and dry place normally but no not rain has reached there and is back in the forecast reaching the scouts and coast through when talk but further south surprising warps in cape town it's been over 30 degrees the last 2 days the full cost for thursday is 33 degrees well above the average which we reach with a change of wind direction for both friday and saturday which become showery now the heaviest of the rays like to be further east particularly focusing in zimbabwe .

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you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour and donald trump faces another senate trial after being impeached for 2nd time proceedings are unlikely to start until after his term ends in 6 days he's been charged with inciting an insurrection after his supporters attacked the capitol last week. the u.n. security council is being briefed on the situation in yemen the u.n. humanitarian chief as the u.s. troops versus 'd decision to designate the rebels a terrorist group citing concerns when large scale famine. counting is underway in uganda's general election there were long queues of polling stations

offer a late start and campaign plagued by violence president yoweri museveni is running for 6 terms but he does face a serious challenge in opposition leader why. it has been a decade since june is revolution pushed its long term president. ben ali from power and into exile subsequent protests swept across much of the arab world back at this revolution began it was spout in december 2010 when street band. easy set himself on fire people took to the streets of a living standards and unemployment the violent response by police led to riots it was dubbed the jasmine revolution in january 2011 president ben ali resigned after 23 years in power and fled to saudi arabia elections were then held in october and the previously banned not a party won the majority vote the following year ben ali was sentenced in absentia

to life in prison for inciting violence and murder then in 2015 the tunisian national dialogue quartet a group of civil society members won the nobel peace prize for its contribution to building a pluralistic democracy. ok let's bring in fred so who's the editor in chief of the news and analysis website michelle and joins us from. good to have you here on the program so cove it has kept any celebrations of at this time in check 10 years on but give us a sense of the country today there was so much fervent hope 10 years ago. yeah well i should declare by that a sensibly co but it was that the reason why the government announced a 4 day lockdown although the state scientific committee has said that 4 days but they wouldn't do anything and we've actually seen and the space where people protested 10 years ago downtown tunis empty today you know that was the place where

people really rejected a police state where security forces fired on them and despite that the revolution succeeded and today they were really prevented from from entering that space so in some ways people people were talking about being to counter revolutionary atmosphere today on this day 10 years later and that really sums up where it has has come to at this point you know it's difficult to say where the gains of the revolution have been there have been free and fair elections there's been a new constitution which many people are crazed for really securing new rights new personal freedoms but at the same time we've seen those elections the turnout has gone down every time they've had elections as people really start to feel disillusioned with whether these elections and whether the politics this can actually respond to people's up political economic and social needs we have to remember as well that aside from the current health crisis that we're seeing in tunisia there's also an economic crisis an economic malaise that's been going on

for the last several years there's been an i.m.f. program in place the loan program which has included a lot of austerity measures including freezing public sector hiring most crucially today when the health ministry often see doctors who end up going abroad and you see other people really even even in the lower cost as well trying to leave saying they don't feel like there's enough economic opportunity here right and given those few positives that you do list that what is going in the way of. making the progress that was so hopeful that going to get. yeah i mean in terms of elections you've seen a lot of fragmentation in the parliament especially in the last couple of years we've seen quite a lot of polarized nation today you know when you look at the polling you know one of the most. popular parties that you have is actually a party that's reincarnation of the old regime party the old r.c.d. which was a single ruling party before there were elections and it sort of taken on that

mantle and it appeals to people who really feel frustrated with what's going on since then particularly the ability of this state to to bring some justice to those who had called for justice especially some of the economic demands to know the main demands of the revolution were really work freedom and dignity and you know there is a lot more freedom today but in terms of working dignity people really are liking that particularly in interior regions as you mentioned in the introduction the spark for the revolution really came from the interior region from a region that does not see a lot of the wealth that they produce we invested back in in terms of development in terms of education in terms of health and in terms of jobs people are really calling for more jobs calling on the state to do more to to to find a way out of the economic crisis that people are living through these days runs a great to get your perspective to appreciate that time about arinze an editor in chief of the website mexico.

now scientists from the world health organization of arrived in the chinese city of more than a year after the 1st corona virus cases were reported but the group has finally been allowed access to investigate the origins of the pandemic it comes as the country's north is battling resurgent cases treaty reports now from beijing. after months of negotiation with the chinese government members of the world health organization team have arrived in hot on a mission to trace the origins of carbon 19 we'll be. looking at. those cases human cases that were detected in december 1000. at the markets the famous one market and see. what happened there the team also investigate the theory that the virus 1st came from an animal and hopes to gain access to hans institute

of the role of the trumpet ministration has claimed without evidence that the pandemic was caused by a leak from this laboratory u.s. secretary of state mike from peo has accused the chinese government of a cover up and on tuesday tweeted that the w hit show was corrupted by beijing the un agency has denied claims and says its focus is not about assigning blame but uncovering facts to fight the pandemic beijing has so far tightly controlled any investigation into the outbreaks origin the mission comes as china is struggling to contain an outbreak in the country's north with more than 700 cases discovered in a week in the 1st corona virus death recorded in 8 months discovering the origins of personalities has become highly politicized many governments around the world have been told for an independent inquiry the premier are skeptical chinese government will provide access to the communist was a puzzle so to resurrect its own narrative about the outbreak spores. chinese state

media have been pushing reports that the corona virus was 1st discovered in europe in late 2019. beijing has been stocking their theory by pointing to traces of the virus on imported frozen food but says this is highly speculative but many residents in are convinced tell me why you know i welcome that double team to all hon to look for the origin because i don't believe china is where it started. we were set up didn't originated not even in china health experts say it's unlikely they will discover the source of comfort 19 any time soon an additional missions may be needed. it took them some 10 years to find the origin of sars holloway to take. maybe less time because we have more experience. easily and it's more complicated it will take time to find definitive answers a team of experts from around the world to work with chinese scientists in holland

but 1st the 14 days of quarantine between e.u. al-jazeera beating a vaccine developed by chinese pharmaceutical firm sila back is coming under scrutiny from regulators is being trialled in brazil and scientists there now say the latest data show that it is only 50 percent effective that is far below the 78 percent brazilian research is announced last week they say the original figures did not include all the data from clinical trials but the vaccine known as corona back is still deemed to be effective under the benchmark rate of 50 percent set by the world health organization sort of acas defended its vaccine saying it is still safe to use and unlike the pfizer vaccine it doesn't need to be frozen the job has been ordered by at least 10 countries including turkey and indonesia. global health advisor and lecturer at university college london school of pharmacy she says despite the latest data the vaccine has still showed that it is effective in

preventing severe cases. well currently we have a limited data and show hasn't had the full picture received by chinese scientists so at this point it can if you can picture house emerge because the trials run in different countries with the corona back the chinese back scene has been quite different on the surface of things it is disappointing to see that it is only 2.8 percent effective however we also have to consider that this does the u.s. f.d.a. even said that they would approve of any vaccine over 50 percent i think if i think you see so i think in some ways we have almost. forgotten the significance of the scientific achievement because there have been so there have been several vaccines that have had higher thinking level but we really need to break it down to

a war. how effective is it in pieces that are severe in the ones that need medical treatment and are clogging up hospital systems and in this is just actually this vaccine itself is effective so we think that in the many regions of the world where people are dying in d.c. and where the 2nd wave is now eclipsing the cars and this vaccine can be an effective invaluable tool mass distribution of same chinese made vaccine has begun in turkey where health care workers and high risk groups are being prioritized in a mass an occupation dr the health minister says doses have already been delivered to 81 sites across the country turkey took delivery of 3000000 doses in december she didn't close your group has this update from one of the vaccination centers in istanbul. as of thursday morning to him medical workers in turkey started to receive the koran a virus vaccine that truth you received from china this in

a lockbox in 3000000 dollars came to turkey on late december and now medical workers in the state hospital are receiving their vaccinations. everybody needs to be vaccinated we have no other alternative for the really mature did it as we health workers are fighting the virus but when a medic falls ill and is absent for 14 days it becomes a problem that's why medical workers are prioritized to receive the vaccine. turkey is planning to complete $15000000.00 of the chinese vaccine by the end of march and beginning of april also turkey will receive $500000.00 from pfizer beyond tag and currently negotiations underway to receive 20 $5000000.00 doses of vaccine according to the pools conducted before the new year at this 41 per cent of the turkish population is happy to receive the vaccine because they are fed up of

being indoors and being limited with masks and everything turkey also is conducting some other work so how it's all vaccine turkish vaccine which they expect to be ready by the end of april well of course there are $18000000.00 people living in the country there were there will be a need for more vaccine and of course everybody's talking to be free by the beginning of summer around the clock a curfew has come into force in lebanon to combat a dramatic surge in corona virus infections or wednesday there were long queues outside food stores and they were residents stocked up a lot down will be imposed for 11 days to countries toughest response to so far becomes a big growing criticism that uncoordinated policies helped fuel the spread of the virus so has this update from lebanon's capital of beirut. for the 1st time really the government is requesting people apply online or call a hotline to get permission to venture outside for and for any emergency

authorities really had little choice from january 3 to 1030000 new cases were detected and this is a small nation of $6.00 to $7000000.00 people so a 70 percent increase in sections but a lot of blame is being pointed at the government for its policies a lack of strategy that has been mitigating the crisis not containing the crisis health experts are saying that these on and off lock downs are not going to do much what is the strategy after 11 days what are you planning to do hospitals are overwhelmed they managed to add a few beds yesterday to help deal with this crisis but the medical staff there they are tired they're understaffed in fact and many will say that they that they just can't continue so a lack of strategy and when you impose a lockdown really this is the last resort when you lose control and lebanon has lost control in the biggest question 6 is will people comply for the next 11 days

especially the vulnerable families many people rely on daily wages in order to survive what happens to them this is a cash strapped government was unable to help the people a government which open the country which chose the economy over the health over over health because they wanted to lure in dollars from abroad the french prime minister says a new nationwide law done could be imposed without delay if the health situation worsens the nighttime curfews will not begin to out in a bid to contain the spread of a highly contagious variant of the strain which is natasha but reports from the. many feel those actions do not go far enough. in an old cold city hall 24 year old myal camel inc is being tested for covert part of the mass campaign against the virus in the northern french city over a health workers want to test most of the 130000 people who live and work in the city to isolate positive cases soldiers i feel a duty to participate as

a citizen because the labs need as many tests as possible for the research french health authorities chose repay for mass testing because its infection rate was one of the highest in the country last year it's lower now but as elsewhere in france the city's doctors fear the spread of the highly infectious covert strain that's forced the u.k. into a 3rd lockdown. dunc one is a doctor and deputy mayor. when the health ministry decided to mass test we didn't know about the so-called british strain now that we know more we asked the health ministry to search the u.k. variant and a positive cases we detect during this campaign so far less than a dozen clusters of the ferentz have been detected in france the biggest in the southern city of mass a link to a french family who returned to the city for a holiday from their home in person many people in france worry that the situation

in the country could soon become similar so that in the u.k. where the coded variant has been described as out of control in some areas the french government's under pressure to do more to stop its spread everyone believes . british to ration through the question is one. the president of the french scientific committee stated it would be in march or april. i believe that is probably sooner and the end of february the new emergencies prompted the government to order researches to reexamine recent tests nationwide. they've also accelerated their faxon nation program this week we hope to have vaccinated more than a 1000000 french people by the end of january and we also want to prioritize the vaccine for the 15000000 people regarded as the most vulnerable the government is racing to curtail the covert variant and avoid an up

a national lockdown but the message from most health experts seems to be that it may be already too late natasha al jazeera. police in belgium have arrested more than 100 people vote and lies in a police station during a largely peaceful protest hundreds rallied in brussels calling for justice after a 23 year old black man died in police custody but the demonstration turned violent when the right place tried to disperse protesters large gatherings have been restricted because of coronavirus prosecutors are investigating the circumstances surrounding the man's death. according cambodia has resumed a mass trial of more than 60 opponents of the government most have been charged with treason for taking part in nonviolent political activities the trolls been heavily criticized by rights groups described as a sham by the opposition from. here recent boden american human rights activist and lawyer is facing charges of conspiracy to commit treason

and incitement to create social disorder she's described at the charges as absurd but at the same time hasn't ruled out the possibility that she could be found guilty and sentenced to prison at the political theater the decision will be made by politicians not judges so this is why we know that it's not a genuine the trial i'm being persecuted for my political opinion nearly 130 people mostly former supporters and members of the disbanded opposition party the cambodian national rescue party all see an r.p. have been charged with similar crimes their trial was due to begin last november but the court split the cases into 2 with one hearing due to start on thursday in march the un has voiced concerns the charges appear to be politically motivated many defendants are accused of being involved with organizing a failed trip by former opposition leaders sam rainsy to return to cambodia from

self-imposed exile brains he had been prime minister who is biggest political rival for years in 2017 a year before the last general election who launched a sweeping crackdown on his opponents. the c. an r.p. was forced by the court to disband its leader cam soca arrested ahead of the election rights activists say the upcoming trial will help in sen who's been prime minister 36 to strengthen his grip on power what we're seeing in cambodia today is the consolidation of dictatorship we're seeing the last vestiges of political opposition swept away that means local and provincial councillors of the sea in r.p. . various political activists civil society people are all being swept up in these mass trials the government says the charges on the chitta met and that the trial will proceed like any other florence li al jazeera. it's ahead here on

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if. i were going to head of the sport now his job. thanks nick and then pick $100.00 metres hurdles champion brianna mcneill has been provisionally suspended for violating anti doping rules about fs 6 integrity unit says she's been charged with

tampering within the results management process but it didn't elaborate any further 29 year old mcmahon is an american athlete who on gold at the rio olympics in 2016 a year later she was banned for 12 months after missing 3 out of competition drug tests so i missed that is championships us and pick something champion clete keva has been charged for taking part in last week's riots in washington d.c. this video allegedly shows the 6 foot 6 athlete inside the capitol building wearing a u.s. and in pink team jacket it's not clear whether he's been taken into custody but he has resigned from his real estate job in colorado springs cannot won 5 olympic medals including 2 relay go alongside michael phelps for ariza shot a class become the latest formula one driver to test positive for corona virus he self isolating at home in monaco with mild symptoms after being in close contact

with a positive case the class is the 5th driver to catch the virus and it comes just days after the start of the new season was pushed back to the end of march because of difficulties holding races in australia and china during the pandemic. he's not the only high profile case today former tennis number one andy murray has also tested positive the british player was planning to compete at the australian i've been but he's currently isolating at home and he might not be able to travel in time. under a mandatory it's who we quarantine period before the tournament begins on february the 8th players and coaching staff have started arriving in melbourne 15 arrived on a flight from the u.a.e. on thursday during quarantine be allowed out of their hotel rooms of around 5 hours a day to practice and receive treatments tournament medical officials have given american tennis sam grant special permission to board a chartered flight from los angeles to testing positive in the week sangria had caved 19 in november and a spokesperson for the australian state of victoria said it was common for people

to continue to shred of viral fragments after having had the virus the current virus continues to cause problems that english premier league side aston villa as well with yet another of their games cooled off sunday's match against everton at the latest to be postponed due to the ongoing private 19 outbreak at the club that was supposed to play tottenham on wednesday but that would also didn't go ahead at training ground remains closed but it's expected to reopen on sunday so south american football now in pele's form a club some toss of sets up an old brazilian final in the coffin lid to door as they were up against argentina as a book again is in the 70s after a goalless 1st leg at santos made him advantage count in the 2nd game winning that $13.00 nil by a primary us in the final on january 30th at the market in rio which can hold nearly $80000.00 found that there will be no spectators the hit because of the crime scene. it's not motorcycle contend that the dakar rally has made

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at the clays over in brisbane australia and india are preparing for their 4th test with the series 1110 india have complained about the quality of the hotel they're staying in for the team's batting coach says it won't affect them when they take to the fields. straight you know. it's one of the bit acts in the. eye thing what you see is that you don't. give a good room service to. of course these were the concerns we still wasn't. going to. in new zealand the country's captain sophie divine has hit the fastest ever century in the women's 220 cricket tank for wellington glaze in a domestic match she reached 100 runs in just 36 balls including 9 sixes only 9 players have taken a few rooms to reach a t 20 time the daughter of n.b.a.

legend dennis rodman has followed him into professional sports rodman won 5 n.b.a. titles including 3 at the chicago bulls alongside michael jordan and scottie pippen is daughter trinity rodman is a footballer and that 18 years old has become the youngest ever play it to be drafted into the top women's league in the u.s. . the washington spirit select trinity rodman from washington state university obviously this is my dream for playing soccer since i was 4 years old and in every school paper everything i wrote i want to be fossils are where i want to be where and i think right now just with the code and everything i think honestly argue that it's not the right time right now i think it's a perfect time to get in and learn and become a better player and i just times stunning pictures from the french out by dozens of dogs and that mush is a dashing through the snow here in this is the ground 0 to say a dog sled challenge the 400 kilometer course winds through the mountains and

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