revealing eco friendly solutions to comeback threats to our planet on al-jazeera. hello everyone taylor this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london coming up. it's going to be catastrophic the u.n. warns that the u.s. decision to designate the cuties a terrorist organization could tip yemen into famine. a day after a 2nd impeachment donald trump applauds his own efforts to end the wars downtown washington is on lockdown. our person is reported to be. desperate pleas from an

hour soon brazil but hospitals are running out of oxygen as another new variant fuels cases last night the. ugandan opposition supporters in high spirits started lection they hope to see a form of pop star and see a long time president you are a mere 70. 7 asked for the days of sports news as the l.m. pick $100.00 metres hurdles champion and brianna mcneil is provisionally suspended for breaking anti doping world's. top u.n. officials are urging the u.s. government to reverse its decision to designate yemen's hooty rebels a terrorist group warning it could tip the country into a large scale famine sector a state might pompei it says the aim is to hold hoofy rebels accountable for what

the u.s. says are terrorist acts including last month's deadly blast at aden f. 14 southern yemen washington and the yemeni government to blame that assault on the who sees who deny any involvement christian salumi reports from the united nations . it was a brutal attack on the airport just. as newly appointed yemeni government officials arrived killing more than 20 people including civilians and aid workers but what the u.s. has done since blaming iran back to the separatists and designating them a terrorist organization will have more deadly and far reaching consequences that according to martin gryphus united nations special envoy who recently visited the country we fear. they will be inevitably a chilling effect of my efforts to bring the parties together. even worse according to the u.n. and aid agencies the move is likely to push yemen over the brink and into

widespread famine after 6 years of civil war 60000000 people more than half of the population already rely on humanitarian assistance to buy food 90 percent of which is imported aid agencies say the terrorism designation will disrupt the supply chain increase prices and possibly cause suppliers to pull out of the country altogether david beasley has the nobel prize winning the world food program. with the designation. it's 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. it quite frankly it needs to be reversed the united states has promised to work with the agencies but says the move is needed as years of peace talks have yielded little in the way of results i want to ensure that everyone in this council and our briefers their views their

concerns are informing how we approach that designation implementation and we are listening but we do believe that this step as the right move forward. the designation of iranian back to these as terrorists is the final salvo in the united states' so-called maximum pressure campaign against iran and it's due to go into effect on january 19th one day before president trump leaves office already there are calls on president elect joe biden to reverse the decision along with the warning that by that time damage will already have been done kristen salumi al jazeera the united nations let's talk more about this with her heart to the head of mission for doctors without borders in yemen he joins us via skype from aden thanks very much indeed for being with us can you tell us what this will mean for aid

organizations trying to operate in yemen. as it is if still doesn't have the full picture of all the designation of the young so long by the outgoing trombonist nation as a foreign terrorist organization. one of. it is difficult to say but it is vital that any potential counterterrorism as it nation in yemen does not. have the yemeni people who are already suffering the direct in the indirect of the protected more for almost all decade. and to terrorist nation settings to further complicate the provision of aid of vital to yemen there must be. brought exemption covering every. port of humanitarian supplies the movement of humanitarian teams on the ground we got. independent.

and support to medical services but many still holds inside and an audience and most importantly access to life saving care for people wounded sick or at the risk of dying must not be blocked it's also important it helps workers of have to recognize that helps work have a basic u.t.d. of medical and paramedic care under international humanitarian law and that must not be obstructed by counterterrorism policies and saying well. because it's one of how difficult is it to protect to provide aid. it is yemen is a very complex context and the impact of the ongoing war and the spikes of extreme violence does make it difficult to to deliver humanitarian assistance and medical care to $2.00 to $2.00 areas which are which are very close to front lines and

constantly affected by high level of i love you and. but but again. there is this nation must not impact the life you want to feel any people living in on telecontrol. already been living in. worse conditions 678 you. thank you very much indeed for joining us for the line was slightly forward to when that interview took place but we really appreciate you talking to us thank you. well who thing media is reporting that the saudi led coalition carried out 20 airstrikes on yemeni governance on thursday it says the strikes targeted merab. and sun are with 2 air strikes aimed at sellers who control the airport according to the u.n. the war in yemen has killed more than 233000 people since it began in 2015

donald trump has released a statement saying u.s. troops are at their lowest points in years in afghanistan iraq and syria a day after house speaker nancy pelosi signed the impeachment papers against trump the president said it had been an honor to rebuild the military trump was formally charged with inciting an insurrection one week after his supporters storm capitol hill leaving 5 dead but with just 6 days to go until he leaves office trump is likely to become the 1st president in u.s. history to face trial after his term has ended so how does trump's 2nd impeachment proceed when there's less than a week left of his term well under the constitution that the house vote triggers a trial in the senate 2 thirds would need to vote to convict trump so at least 17 republicans would have to back the motion 10 republicans supported trumps impeachment in the house a trial is unlikely to be held until trump has left office republican senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has said it can only proceed when the senate is

back in regular session on tuesday the day before joe biden's inauguration biden has urged senate leaders to avoid a trial in the opening days of his presidency as he wants to focus on the economy confirming his cabinet and the covert vaccine rollout conviction in the senate could lead to a vote banning trump from running again which only needs a simple majority to pass this bill are not a 100 castro on capitol hill what's happening behind the scenes now over this next stage of the impeachment process. lauren we know the appointed impeachment managers have been meeting to discuss how this senate trial will eventually unfold discussing questions like whether or not there will be witnesses or evidence presented how long the trial will go for this is an unprecedented thing that's about to occur former u.s. president by the time that this trial is called into order not only that but it's likely to be very different from the 1st time that trump was impeached if you'll

recall it was a foregone conclusion during the 1st impeachment that he would be acquitted given that the senate controlled was controlled by republicans and that the leader there mitch mcconnell had said from the outset that he was not going to be an impartial juror well it's a very different tune that mcconnell is singing at the moment he says that he is now open to considering conviction and lisa murkowski the senator from alaska is now has been the 2nd senator of the g.o.p. to go on record saying she would do the same ultimately it's still a tall order to have trump convicted of this impeachment it would require 17 senate republicans but certainly the movement is in that direction at this point with democrats saying that of course this would not result in the president's removal as he will be a former president at that point but that it is important to carry through this process to end this chapter of president trumps presidency for the history books

and also more importantly to prevent him from holding office in the future. the violence last week intense security in washington and state capitals around the u.s. . absolutely with more soldiers coming to the capitol city by the minute if you take a stroll around the capitol complex 4 blocks * everything is locked down this is a completely different scenario than past inaugurations where we would have seen a crowd of thousands trying to see president elect joe biden being sworn in what we're learning now that the public will not be allowed on the mall that is the place where the audience would normally gather so joe biden will be looking out not to see a crowd of supporters but instead of empty field of grass there are some $20000.00 national guard troops who will be here by the time of the inauguration in 6 days

time and people are being encouraged not to travel to d.c. at all for the inauguration in fact alaska airlines the latest of several airlines who are increasing their security measures alaska airlines banning checked weapons vice president mike pence has been briefed on security measures leading up to the inauguration and all of this is unfolding during a tense time as the f.b.i. has issued warnings of potential for more armed riots leading up to and around the inauguration citing the chatter of extremist groups who feel him bolted from the insurrection that took place here a week ago i should thank you very much indeed. nearly a 1000000 americans filed for 1st time jobless claims last week the highest figure since mid august as well as claiming as many as 3 or 4000 lives a day the pandemic has had an unprecedented effect on the economy a subject at the heart of donald trump's presidency and the fallout means it will

be a long road to recovery for the incoming administration. looks 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. lower in common where you class americans to the top 10 percent the top one percent the most important thing the you did was massive tax. 2017 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 interview. earlier in all of us that 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 when you mines i still manage my own employ me. and i will. burn through almost all my savings. just kind of like. the bills. or my bank you know. and you're 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 the worst affected country in the world us we have. approximately 2526000000 workers who hardship share of the labor force over 13 percent of workers are suffering today directly as a result of the groaner recession compare that with japan where a culvert 19 public education campaign and widespread mask wearing helped prevent major shutdowns as of late december fewer than $80000.00 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. coming up on this news hour from london turkey begins rolling out a chinese coronavirus vaccine despite claims its efficacy rate may be following

them promised. lebanon begins a strict 11 day knock down with a round the clock car few as hospitals start running out of beds. and a top motorcycle contender runs out of fuel the dakar rally that was concussion to blame gemma has that story coming up in sports. hospitals are breaking point in brazil's amazonas state with oxygen supplies running out and reports of covert 19 patients dying of suffocation coronavirus cases a spiking there's another new variant to a devastating 2nd wave doctors nurses and the families of people in need of put out messages on social media pleading for people to supply oxygen if they can. call a person busy because if you have mercy on us we are in a deplorable situation we have simply run out of oxygen in an entire health care

unit we have no more oxygen there are lot of people dying if anyone has any oxygen available please send it to us at the redemption to make peace a music video to everyone please for there are many people dying please put in love of god but your best role was for was a cuba this is chaos we were seeing just small stock of oxygen but it will only last 2 hours. this is so. we need oxygen we have one cylinder for 5 people in one room doctors i'm a few patients take turns breathing for the love of god doctors don't know what else to do this is a calamity. when monica monica joins us live from rio de janeiro so it seems like a terrible situation in a missouri state what else can you tell us. yes it's a would say it's going to go mad if we. are now speaking from not having room in

the cemetery not having room in hospitals to not having oxygen you can't even treat patients at home or anywhere and doctors are just watching these patients like suffocating to death and that's why the social media has been inundated has been all these made on the social media so people can like juggle around the few oxygen cylinders that they have from one place to the other and it's not. even sending oxygen over to my nonsense been enough it is reach a point where they're flying hundreds of patients the ones that are are going better and can be flown out to 5 other to other parts of great skill and so that is basically the situation is getting extremely extremely dramatic it came to a point where a provider of oxygen the main provider of oxygen. flowing

at this stage which is in the amazon even. seeing if there was available oxygen in the news which as we all know is in crisis and meantime politicians have been arguing over vaccines but a date has not been agreed. to as a some problems governor has taken a strong stand and said that he would not wait for the federal government. especially since president. only has been always. minimizing but all those that he was going to needed so some bobbins government a governor said he would for you to start vaccinating the people in his state before anyone else on january 25th now the government the health minister today said that no there were back to nation start in all of brazil on january 20.

before the date. set at the beginning it would start so there seems to be a consensus but there is one lane issue here. which is the regulatory agency has not yet given the green light to any back. neither the chinese more not the russian not the oxford c. none of them so we're still waiting for that meeting which will be on sunday when i get a gift for that at the update there from brazil thank you very much indeed a vaccine developed by china's pharmaceutical firm sun of ike is coming under added scrutiny from regulators after the latest data from brazil shows that only 50 percent effective just last week brazilian researchers had said it was 78 percent effective against the virus they've now revised that fit saying it did not include all the data from the clinical trials the beijing based pharmaceutical company has defended the vaccine saying it's still safe for use in mass distribution of the son

of a vaccine has begun in turkey where health care workers and high risk groups are being prioritized in a mass inoculation dr president richard one was among those vaccinated on thursday to he took delivery of 3000000 doses in december and the health minister says doses of already been delivered to 81 sites 12300000 people have tested positive in turkey and at least 23000 have died so in course new has more from one of the vaccination centers in istanbul. as of thursday morning to medical workers in turkey started to receive the coroner virus vaccine that truth you received from china this in a lot of 3000000 dollars came to turkey on late december and now medical workers in the state hospital are receiving their vaccinations when charity is national everybody needs to be vaccinated we have no other alternative for the

really richard it is we hope 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 under way to receive $25000000.00 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 then being limited with mass and everything in turkey also is conducting some other work so how it's all vaccine turkish a vaccine which they expect to be ready by the end of april but of course there are

8000000 people living in the country there were there will be a need for more vaccine and of course everybody's sorting to be free by the beginning of summer. jordan has started vaccinating the syrian refugees living in such a hurry camp becoming one of the 1st countries to start vaccinating u.n.h.c.r. registered refugees $43.00 elderly refugees received either a sign of our core fires a job at a vaccination center east of the capital around 2000 out of 78000 refugees at the camp have been registered to receive a vaccine as part of a national back nation program anyone on jordanian sold including refugees and asylum seekers is entitled to receive the vaccine for free. around the clock curfew has come into force in lebanon to combat a dramatic surge in corona virus infections looked on as usual just 11 days and is the country's toughest response to the pandemic so far comes amid growing criticism that uncoordinated policies helped to fuel the spread of the virus the country's

acting health minister is himself in hospital being treated for cave 19 in a honda has more from the finance capital 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 till 103-0000 new cases were detected and this is a small nation of 6 to 7000000 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 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 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. vote counting is underway after uganda's closely contested election the final results expected within 48 hours supporters of opposition leader bobby wine have been gathering at polling stations to monitor the counts because of fears of fraud. one is aiming to ending incumbent seventies 35 year rule the run up to the election

was the deadliest in uganda's history with more than 50 people killed by security forces and there are fears the final result will be contested and internet black blackout is in effect also show media and messaging apps abound catherine sawyer has more from the capital kampala. or the chairman of the electoral commission on. a draft after the completion of. anything that by and large the voting process has been small he talked about a few problems in found voting stations for example that biometric identification. failed in the. materials arrive late but he says much of those problems was solved by the experts of the electoral commission and one in the 2 year old arrived in the polling station everything else went smoothly a lot of people have raised on that and about how the transmission of results will

happen without internet the internet has been shut down yet in uganda opposition supporters but the wine and paktika moriarty have accused government all through of using x. thank you forth on their supporters to politicians have been around that wall to pull times have been blocked from come painting. i have been backed by security forces in november 54 people killed in krakow after i was a rat that novel to talk to. government officials who are saying that this politicians have been the fine coffee 1000 regulations they say that the truck crashed and the rallies have been violent protesters have been attacking police as well but all this raises questions about the credibility of the annex and the credibility of the process. lots more still to come this hour including over

a year after the 1st coronavirus case was flagged to the world health organization investigators finally arrive in one hand. she was impeached convicted and jailed for 20 is now a court has upheld the sentence of south korea's former president. and football is a total stop celebration with hugs and handshakes as coronavirus cases climb that story coming up with jennings. the latest country to get a real dump of snow has been sweden these are the pictures now expect sweden to get snow obviously and it is made to winter but even so it's quite a big fall still being cleared up their precious now high over sweden the snow has stopped falling but the air is over it is cold that's feeding down into the rest of

eastern europe as dotted loads all over the place and it's cold it's going to be snowy not excessively so i don't think unless you bring a frontal system into it then it may well snow across significantly particularly over the alps outbreaks of like the stove in most places not part of eastern europe until the cold gets down to the warmish waters of the man's reading we're always tended to something rather more substantial space in those still covered in snow is now enjoying sunshine for a couple of days the reaction is going to be most definitely further east you go across the back of the north coast of africa as well so that's a look at that this is the picture then for saturday stormy weather seems like if the g. and as the east medical cyprus into the levant but there's cold enough over turkey to produce an awful lot more snow high temperature in istanbul only about 4 degrees and that drops and this is all going to be rain of course except in the bekaa valley for example for a snow seems likely. it

is murder when you throw a fire bomb into someone's home and mishits you off hashish you know i think that's not insignificant in numbers that insignificant ideologically that is significant even as it crime gag down very significant by dictating the government and the fucked up policy down shalt not kill part of the radicalized series on al-jazeera i care about how the u.s. engages with the rest of the world i cover foreign policy national security it is very much a political impounds here's the paul flick how do we illustrate it are we telling a good story will people get what we're trying to kill their living outside and make it count this is not the way any family wants to raise their children we're willing a kid in taking you into a place that you might not visit otherwise it's absolutely feels that you were

there. among the top stories here on out of syria top u.n. officials are urging the u.s. government to reverse its decision to designate yemen's hoofy rebels as a terrorist group warning it could tip the country into a large scale famine the u.n. fears it will prevent aid from getting to those who need it most and damage peace efforts. vote counting is underway for a uganda's closely contested election with final results expected within 48 hours singer turned off the wine is aiming to end the incumbent you are in the seventies 35 year old. anna coronavirus surge in brazil has led to

a desperate shortage of oxygen and patients dying of suffocation in the amazonas city of man hours doctors nurses and the families of people in need to put out messages on social media pleading for people to supply oxygen if they can. the u.k. has banned travel from every country in south america from friday because of fears surrounding a new coronavirus variant identified in brazil britain's transport extra also added portugal to the ban due to its strong travel links with brazil scientists analyzing the brazilian variant believe it shares mutations with the new south african strain causing a surge in cases there meanwhile a british study shows people you've recovered from the corona virus are likely to be protected against reinfection for several months public health england concluded immunity from naturally acquired antibodies provide 83 percent protection for at least 5 months let's go straight to chris smith

a consultant barrister cambridge university thanks very much for being with us again on the program just on on that last point the the public health england study how important a finding is that are about people being protected from go but if they've had it before. well it tells us something that we suspected but didn't have any confirmed rock solid data to go on so it kind of fills in the gap but we sort of expected this would be the case we know that the person who catches corona virus more than 80 percent of the time just recovers and they recover because their immune system makes a response that kicks the virus out of their body the question was well how long are they going to remain in the room for and can they catch it again in that period of time well this siren study that's the name of the study from public health england gives us a bit more clarity because they followed up some 20000 people half or just just under half were people who had had a confirmed case of corona virus and had antibodies the rest of the group were controls they hadn't had coronavirus and what they did was to follow up these

people over a long period of time and they're asking the simple question can we still detect antibodies in this people and can we detect any cases of corona virus in these people and they're using the people who don't have antibodies to see what the infection rate is relating that the people who do have antibodies so you can make a valid comparison and that's how they come up with this number that about 85 percent of them were protected for at least 5 months because that was how long the study and asked of you may get more protection than that for a bit longer we don't know yet for sure and on the u.k. figures i mean we actually got today's figures because they've been apparently someone a glitch but they're being very high daily figures for deaths and infections are there any positive signs that the days aren't even worse of any positive signs that you could see in the in the ones that we do have. well the cases have sort of leveled off and began to drop now that might be a statistical glitch because the data do come in rushes because of weekends and on

the way the day to a collected but it does look like the 7 day our fridge is beginning to come down in terms of cases remember though that the death toll deaths have a lag of some 2 or 3 weeks because it doesn't to immediately translate from a case into a mortality people have to deteriorate they have to go to hospital they have to then deteriorate in hospital and then they usually pass away at that point and that takes 3 weeks so anything we see in terms of what the cases are doing today we won't see those effects on the death toll for at least another 2 or 3 weeks so i'm expecting actually our death rate to climb a bit further you get beyond the we've been seeing 1500 people a day losing their lives i expect it's going to go a bit higher yes unfortunately before it starts to turn the corner in the same way if the trend is sustained that the cases are but we've got to lock down on that to rein in cases it's a very effective tool it's very expensive costly in many ways but it does work so i'm hoping that the case burden is going to fall and then the effect of the

vaccines will kick in as well and how quickly do you think that vaccine effect will will will have a significant effect on the numbers. well it's obviously hard to say and there's a number of things to take into account because of the rate of vaccination is very high that getting through 200000 people per day there's an ambitious target of some 50000000 people to be vaccinated by the 15th of february just after valentine's day which i'm sure everyone would love to see but at the same time remember that you have the vaccine you don't instantly become immune it takes a few weeks for you to build up an immune response in response to the vaccine so there's a number of factors to take into account we won't see things changing instantly but i would fully expect within a month or so because they're targeting the most vulnerable people who are the ones who if they catch corona virus have the highest likelihood of developing severe disease and they're at the top of the list for vaccination i would expect the effects of the vaccine to kick in relatively quickly in terms of an impact to making a dent in those mortality statistics as well as the fact that there's

a lockdown on there for the case right to drop as well so by mid february we should be in a much better place i hope you mentioned potentially damaging effects of lock down those are kind of well documented aren't they but are there any alternatives that have that have worked better for reducing the spread them in mass testing when i think that all and is not always a last resort when things are out of control. well here i mean regrettably there are very few options here at the moment until we have a large availability of vaccine and vaccines going into lots of people then we have to maintain public health measures the most effective but the most brutal is to lock down the country it's ridiculously expensive in many ways it cost people their sanity it cost people their jobs and livelihoods as well as people's mental health in other respects as well so it's financially damaging educationally damaging for young people so it's a sort of measure of last resort which we try not to go down that route but at the

time there's not really very much option because the case rate is very high i mean the number of people who are in hospital being cared for by the national health service in the u.k. is 50 percent higher now than it was back in march and april when the whole thing 1st kicked off so that gives you some insight into the scale of what our health service is trying to cope with right now and the danger when you're dealing with that kind of caseload is that then things that are not coronavirus turn into casualties of coronavirus because there's just not the resources to treat the things that the health service was actually there to treat in the 1st place like heart attacks and cancers christmas thank you very much indeed for talking to us thank you. for the french government says it believe it my curfew forward to 6 pm to contain the spread of the highly contagious variant identified in the u.k. another 21000 new curvy 1000 cases were reported on thursday and $282.00 deaths and talked about the reports from city hall there. in an old concert hall 24 year old

myal camel inc is being tested for conveyed part of the mass campaign against the virus in the northern french city overhaul bay 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 it's 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 this so-called british strain now that we know more we asked the health ministry to search the u.k. variant in a positive cases we detect during this campaign so far less than

a dozen clusters of the fair into have been detected in france the biggest in the southern city of mass a link to a french family who do return to the city for a holiday from their home in britain many people in france worry that the situation in the country could soon become similar to that in the u.k. where the covert 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 believe god will be british curation through the question is one so the president of the french scientific communities will be in march or april. i believe that is probably sooner and the end of february the new emergencies prompted the government to order researchers to reexamine recent tests nationwide. they've also accelerated their fax anation program this with

a lot of action 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 another national lockdown but the message from most health experts seems to be that it may be already too late natasha butler al-jazeera. scientists from the world health organization of arrived in the chinese city of more than a year after the 1st coronavirus cases were reported that they're finally be allowed access to investigate the origins of the pandemic comes as the country's north is battling resurgent cases reporting the 1st death of the virus in 8 months the tuner you reports from beijing. after months of negotiation with the chinese government members of the world health organization team have arrived in the heart on a mission to trace the origins of carbon 19 would be looking. in more detail of

this cases human cases that were detected in december 1000 looking at the markets the famous one markets and see. what happened there also investigate the theory that the virus burst came from an adamant and hopes to gain access to hans institute of role in the trump administration 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 of his mission comes as china is struggling to contain an outbreak in the country's north with more than 700 cases discovered in a week and the 1st coronavirus death recorded in 8 months discovering the origins

of personalities has become highly politicized many governments around the world have been called for an independent inquiry the premier are skeptical chinese government will provide access to the communist was a person so closer to its own narrative about the outbreak spurred. chinese state media than pushing reports that the corona virus was 1st discovered in europe in late 29. beijing has been stoking the theory by pointing to traces of the virus on imported frozen food the w.h.o. says this is highly speculative but many residents in hard are convinced tell me why you are welcome but w.h.o. team to all holland to look for the origin because i don't believe china is where to start it. we were certain. didn't originated not even china health experts say it's unlikely the dog you hate or team will discover the source of covert 19 anytime soon and additional missions may be needed. it took them some

10 years to find the origin of sars whole with. maybe less time because we have more experience. easily these more complicated it will take time to find defeated says a team of experts from around the world the work that the chinese scientists in hard but 1st the 14 days of quarantine between you al-jazeera beating. a huge fire hose tore through a ring a refugee camp in bangladesh leaving thousands of people without shelter ablaze in cox's bizarre destroyed more than 550 homes and 150 shops but no casualties have been reported the u.n. refugee agency says it providing food and medical care for those displaced by the fire or the 1000000 range of refugees live in camps in bangladesh many fled the military crackdown in miramar in 2017 which u.n. investigators say was carried out with genocidal intent. cambodia has begun

a mass trial of scores of opposition figures at least 120 people who all have links to the cambodia national rescue party base charges of treason and incitement on thursday a defense lawyer representing dozens of the defendants said only 11 of more than 60 summoned actually showed up because many are in exile human rights activists say the trial is a move by longtime leader when sen to consolidate his power in 2017 cambodia's highest court dissolve the c.n. r.p. which was the sole credible opposition. south korea's top court has upheld a 20 year prison sentence handed down to former president. corruption involvement in the large scale abuse of power and bribery scandal led to mass protests in 2017 and ultimately removed. ultimately her navel from office she was accused of conspiring with her longtime confidante choice and c.e.o.

to take millions of dollars in bribes and extortion from south korea's largest companies pride as more. this ruling finally marks the end of a 4 year legal process through the court system of south korea former president park geun and he was originally sentenced to 30 years in prison for abuse of power and bribery charges relating to her time in office which came to an end in early 2017 when she was kicked out of office after being impeached she appealed against the length of that sentence and a court of the high court here in seoul last summer reduce the sentence to 20 years that decision has now been upheld by this supremes court ruling which in addition to 2 years for a separate offense means that park should serve 22 years in total behind bars

meaning she wouldn't be released until she is an extremely old person in 2039 of course the expectation is that at some point she may well get a pardon and be released early but as far as her supporters are concerned and there have been a number of them here for this ruling they do not believe that she should be behind bars the toll saying that this whole court case has been a political action against her. this is a clear case of political pressure and in the past we have never had anything like this in the history of our liberal democracy it's not uncommon for former presidents here in south. career to spend time behind bars and her is one of 4 former presidents in south korea's history as a republic going back more than 70 years to get a prison sentence but she still has a very loyal conservative following here people who go out constantly protesting in her support she still remains whether inside prison or out

a deeply divisive figure. food and wine produced it illegal israeli settlements in the occupied west bank will soon be available for purchase in the united arab emirates economic and business ties have been growing between israel and the u.a.e. since the 2 agreed to normalize ties last year angering palestinians the settlements are deemed illegal under international law and labels highlighting the origins of settler products are required by the european union the u.a.e. has not said if similar labels will be required there. very exciting for them to feel the peace process it's like being part of it when you see him in the tell you that when you drink a glass to ah it's to be a part of these 3 again. it breaks your heart to see your muslim brothers in the u.a.e. support your enemy at your expense this is not logic and it is not what god wants

russia's prison authority has warned opposition leader aleksei novelli he faces immediate arrest once he returns from germany a prominent kremlin critic is on a national wanted list for allegedly violating the terms of a suspended prison sentence he hasn't been back to russia since he was poisoned there with a nerve agent novacek in august the valley says he's almost back to full health and will fly home on sunday he accuses russian security services of an assassination attempt at the kremlin denies any involvement. so i had this news. past siberians are coping with a winter that's bitterly cold even for them with minus 50 degree conditions predicted in the coming days. and ferrari's top formula one driver is the latest to test positive for corona virus in the sport gemma has details and spoke.

parts of siberia currently experiencing their longest cold spell in 14 years temperatures in the region dipped below minus 40 degrees celsius more than a month ago and similar weather is expected until the end of january this week could fall below minus 50 and schools have been closed until the weather warms up again the freezing temperatures followed an abnormally warm autumn catching many off guard. the main room to keep warm is not to stay in one place and to keep going that's the main thing when you move busy. there's a time a connected to my car so if the internal temperature drops to minus 2 in the car

ignites itself to warm up the engine and then it turns off again so there are 2 auto ignitions per night. his gem of the sport thank you lauren a limp a $100.00 metres hurdles champion brianna nail has been provisionally suspended of violating anti doping rules the takes integrity unit says she's been charged with tampering within the results management process but didn't elaborate any further 29 year old mcneil is an american athletes who won gold at the rio olympics in 2016 a year later she was banned for 12 months after missing 3 out of competition drug tests we shall have missed that is world championships for ariza shot a class become the nativist 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 the positive case because the 5th driver to catch the virus 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 on thursday for tennis number one andy murray has also tested positive for british player was planning to compete at the australian open and he's now currently isolating a high human might not be able to travel in time to undergo amanda treat 2 week quarantine period before the tournament begins on february 8th while some players and coaching staff have already started arriving in melbourne 15 arrived on a flight from the u.a.e. on thursday during quarantine they will be allowed out of their hotel rooms of around 5 hours a day to practice and receive treatment 20 minute medical officials have given american player tennis sanguine special permission to board a charter flight from los angeles by testing positive in the week sangria had a private 19 in november and a spokesperson for the australian state of victoria said it was common for people to continue to shed viral fragments after having had the virus the kind of arse

continues to cause problems at english premier league side aston villa with yet another of their games cooled off. sunday's match against everton the latest to be for spain to j.t. the on going with 19 outbreak at the club fed it was supposed to play tottenham on wednesday but that one also didn't go ahead a training ground remains close but it's expected to reopen on sunday well despite all the perspiring is happening in english football right now the premier league remains confident of the season can be completed passive protocols are followed players have been warned to stop hugging and kissing him during goal celebrations and to avoid handshakes and high fives one member of the british parliament went as far to say the scenes on football pitches have been brainless and give out an awful message but chelsea boss frank lampard says it's difficult for players to control their emotions on the field football has and always has and always will be again of instinct and if we want to take the instinct out of the game i think it's not that

simple so i think prize players are good lines they don't they don't want to do the wrong thing they've been asked to do their job through this very tough time and they're doing it and and that's to why it is and understand that when they're on the pitch and if they score a goal try and adapt slightly as well as we can ideally in a perfect world we'll walk back to the halfway line just start again but with football maybe it won't quite be the case well there were no goals for the players to celebrate at the emirates also no no no with crystal palace that result means arsenal stay 11th in the table and palace 13. now a top motorcycle contend that the dakar rally has made a shock exit after running out of fuel spanish. went into thursday's opponents of his stage in 5th place but he missed a refueling stop running out of petrol after 267 kilometers refuting points a modest and right does receive a warning when the nearby after

a day run out of fuel he requested a medical examination and was airlifted to hospital for a ride to later posted on his instagram page that he was having a head scan off to falling 2 days ago the news in consciousness he said that had taken its toll in the cock up to greet tory to nasa his sick stage victory remains 15 minutes behind stefan to hansal for a 14th call when on the final day england's cricketers are well on top again in their 1st test in goal no fans allowed in to watch the match it was perspiring from march last year because of demick trying to win the toss and they chose it to bat 1st they were all out for just 135 in reply england were 12752. the daughter of n.b.a. legend dennis rodman has followed him into professional sports rodman won 5 n.b.a. titles including 3 of the chicago bulls alongside michael jordan and scottie pippen his daughter trinity rodman is a footballer and that 18 years old has become the youngest ever player 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 him playing soccer since i was 4 years old and in every school paper everything i wrote i want to be a professional soccer player i want to get fresh air and i think right now just with the code and everything i think honestly argue 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 just time to leave you with some stunning pictures from the french outside dozens of dogs on the mushers with dashing through the snow and this is ground 0 to say that challenge the 400 kilometer race finishes up next week i love that it was shay's the dogs that are in there as well as you and i very much indeed. and that's it for me for this news out of the bakken and with another full roundup of the day's news thanks so much for watching t.v. about.

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