reflecting the plight of a nation witness venezuela a sinking revolution on a jersey. be the hero or a new. washing. ready. al jazeera. you're watching it is our life from a headquarters and i'm dan coming up in the next 60 minutes the dutch government collapses over a child benefit scandal for wrongly labeling thousands of parents as fraudsters at least 34 people are killed and hundreds injured as a powerful earthquake topples buildings in indonesia to the west the islands. early

results from uganda a long time president during the 70 in the lead as opposition candidate bobby wine accuses him of rigging the vote. censorship concerns grow in hong kong as the leading internet firm says it will block websites promoting what it calls illegal acts. and through the sports news a motorcycle rider has died after a crash at the deco rally i'm supposed to read about his concerns cameroon gets ready to host football's african nations championship with a limited number of fans inside stadiums. welcome to the news hour we begin with breaking news out of the netherlands and the dutch government has collapsed over a child care subsidies scandal that had a devastating impact on thousands of families prime minister mark critz and his

cabinet have quit after a report blamed them for mismanaging the subsidies thousands of parents were wrongly accused of fraud and some were even forced into bankruptcy writs will remain in office in a caretaker capacity until elections are held already scheduled for march let's get the latest from south boston she's joining us from amsterdam so talk us through the crisis talks that took place and the eventual collapse of this government. has the. offerman decided to have these crisis talks earlier in the morning and it was already clear that there wasn't much more choice than to resign all together the whole cabinet there was a lot of pressure on the prime minister marketer and his ministers after this very damning report came out last month that was called unprecedented injustice and it had these really strong conclusions about what went wrong and how harsh measures

were taken against these 26000 families here in the netherlands who are benefiting from childcare support they were facing a witchhunt by the tax office accusing them wrongly off frot these families were a lot of stress many of them saw for the bankruptcy but also families fell apart it was a very dramatic time for these people and none of the governments none of the ministers in the government had 3 signed or taken any responsibilities for this scandal until recently only on thursday one former minister from the social democrat party was also the party leader decided to resign and that's where that's when the pressure on prime minister mark hurd and his ministers even got bigger so now just a little than an hour ago day decided that they will hold. their resignation to the king here in an atlas and then they will be caretaking the

government until elections on march 17th yes so what are the consequences of all of this. ok we know elections are going to be held in march but anything else we should be looking out for next. well it's of course a dramatic decision to resign and step down as a complete government in the time of a serious crisis and analysis a very badly hit during this covert 19 and that makes their ferry much struggling with this whole vaccination program testing is still not really in order there are a lot of problems so that's why prime minister later earlier this week said that he hopes that the resignation wasn't necessary because the timing is not really working well and also lots of people here and then ireland in a poll a big majority said it's not necessary for the government to resign but the political conscious consequences are much too large and they hope now and that's what they've been stressing until now that they will be still able to lead the

country through discipline that make even though the cabinet is officially not in charge anymore but it will be more difficult and we will hear from the prime minister in the next 10 minutes or so when he will hold his presser about how he wants to solve this problem ok stuff us and thank you for that update from amsterdam. at least 34 people are dead and 600 injured after a magnitude 6.2 earthquake hit the indonesian island of silhouette see thousands of people in the cities of my jane and mahmoud you were displaced authorities are warning of potential aftershocks are indonesia correspondent jessica washington reports. on the indonesian island of pseudo ac a massive search and rescue effort is underway a $6.00 magnitude earthquake in the early hours of friday morning struck at a depth of just 10 kilometers the cities of marginalia mahmoud you have been hardest hit with many buildings being severely damaged. search teams found this

young girl trapped under the debris of a house but she says her name is angel and she isn't sure how many people are still under the rubble and. she's told she will be ok. the earthquake and aftershocks triggered landslides blocking roads and making it difficult for more rescue teams to gain access to the affected cities president djoko doto says every effort will be made to get to those in need so i. mean that an aa in the name of the indonesian government and all the people of indonesia express or condolences to the victims who had passed away i urge the people to stay calm and to follow the instructions given by officials on the ground if these a small communities margin is home to just 150000 people and at least 15000 of them have now been displaced authorities warn there may be more destruction.

the buildings were hit by 2 quakes and at least 28 aftershocks and because the epicenter is near the beach there's a possibility of underwater landslides so that's why this builds and i mean potential. hospital collapsed in the disaster and local media report at least 4 people were trapped beneath the debris. the air traffic control tower at the nearby airport was also damaged communications are being restored and military personnel and additional search and rescue workers are attempting to reach the area let's find out how that rescue effort is going and bring in just crush is joining us from jakarta oh so what are you hearing about the affected areas and what's going on there. well search teams are dealing with limited visibility of course it's dark now in indonesia there's also heavy rain in the affected areas so far we have heard that at least 8 people are dead in the city of 26 in the city of we know that there are 15 evacuation centers currently

operating some residents in the city of mahmoud you are seeking shelter in the governor's residence we also have heard from authorities that they do have adequate food generators supplies for children and infants within those evacuation centers this is been a difficult week for indonesia with flooding and probably months on with a plane crash with 62 people on board with landslides in west java and now this latest disaster now on a national level resources for search and rescue all stretched this is a difficult time for indonesia but at a provincial level of authority say they are used to dealing with these natural disasters and are confident that they will be able to reach those in need. all right thank you very much for that update from jakarta well gentlemen is an earthquake scientists working for the interviews in institute of science and he explains why the area is not under any threat of

a tsunami. this. occurred not on the main fault not in the main exhaust but it's like on the invocation and like a secondary splay of the fall it is smaller and it seems to be on land not offshore in the boss yes we can this creates tsunami but i don't thing it will be a tsunami on the main so as and we had tsunamis up this fault it's it's not it's very very unlikely we know that these are a. big bust. and they have started going to be quite 3 times many. years 7 like $6.00 so we know it's critical to have 0 and we have the same map the next you know match that describe the. estimate how much growing more should get the crew in this radio and so i think

unfortunately i thing the building code in this area and the many outer acid in the doesn't really hasn't really followed the regulation probably of the so i would say that most of the. construction is because some of the houses maybe lots of it's not properly. built structure. north korea's unveiled what it says are new submarine launched ballistic missiles they appeared during a parade marking the end of the country's largest political convention the display of military strength is being seen as a message to the united states and its incoming president joe biden rob mcbride reports from seoul. it's coming after a rare congress of the ruling party and before a gathering of its supreme people's assembly this was north korea on tour 8 its leader kim jong un has admitted his country faces extreme economic problems in part

because of isolation from the global pandemic but the densely packed ranks of soldiers were another illustration of his country's claims of being coronavirus free. and that it remains a potent nuclear armed state showing off the kind of military hardware that it has largely hidden away during the recent years of summit diplomacy. what i'm trying to do the secret path we're following will lead our socialist korea to be more powerful and prosperous. the star attraction what is claimed to be a new type of submarine launched by list stick with south possibly a direct challenge to the incoming administration of u.s. president joe biden the question for many analysts is whether north korea might be tempted to show the potential of such new weapons with a return to provoke a missile testing if north korea should be so corner and so frustrated then we

cannot rule out the possibility that north korea will take all wrong path at least at the beginning of the biden argues tradition mainly in order to get attention from washington and to restart negotiations with the united states in recent speeches kim jong un has made it clear he intends to push ahead with further. movies nuclear arsenal that doesn't necessarily put him on a collision course with the us i do return to the acrimonious relations of the past but it does comply with confirmation would lead did but the recent period of face to face summit miles is officially over. there so. on to more ahead on the al-jazeera news hour including this it's one of the world's largest religious events and it's taking place during a pandemic we take you to india's comella festival security is dramatically ramped

up in washington d.c. ahead of president elect joe biden's inauguration next week. and a steady start for australia in the 4th test against india and the spin there will be here with the action in school. but 1st the votes are being counted in uganda is closely contested election with the final results expected on saturday early indications suggest president yarima 70 has a strong lead over his main challenger pop star turned politician bobby wine but the opposition candidate has rejected the preliminary count insisting that the vote has been marred by widespread fraud and violence. i am very confident that we defeated the dictator by. color poll all ugandan to reject the black men gentlemen 70 and the small clique of operators are trained yet again to impose themselves on the people of uganda the people of uganda will and must reject the

blind separation of their will and their voice catonsville is joining us from kampala you've spoken to the government on those allegations put forward by bobby why no government officer. yes the lexer a commission addressed those allegations by bobby wind they say that even he has concrete evidence then the onus is on him to present that evidence for investigation we spoke to the government spokesman as well who is saying that that declaration forms from polling stations that what we want should have in his possession and he issued provide those to provide that evidence that there are discrepancies between those spoiling those that coloration form signed by all agents of presidential candidates and if the discrepancies between that and the

results that are being relayed here and as you mentioned yes are you worry most 70 is meant has been taking the lead has been widening the gap again the gap with bobby wine and this has been there in our very intense election period we're seeing pre-election violence police have been accused of using excessive force on you know opposition leaders like bobby wine and patrick moriarty and their supporters and joining me to discuss this further is the police spokesman fred and gus thank you for your time sir. we've seen we've seen within this images of police harassing this presidential candidate in november 54 people were killed in protest was all this necessary and. does it not just bomb what people have been accusing uganda of being a police state. elected thank you 1st of all we needed to know the basis for the guidelines that were given by the electoral commission on the conduct

of the campaigns and if you notice from the very beginning we had candidates. into this election joining the integrity of the electoral commission from the very beginning and from the very beginning they did indicate that they're going to participate in an election in their own way not in that they were guided by the commission so we've. seen the finance where. they complain that was supposed to be quote acted in a manner. campaign that is embedded within that. we've seen candidates ended up holding processions which were prohibited. and inside those processions they didn't have any said that as far as wearing the 1st months is concerned as far as social distancing is. within

and then going to. graduate a number of 200 delegates district so meeting and instead you would find them holding muster rallies that governs in thousands. forced out we've seen in november 54 people were killed by police i think you know if you remember there were protests in regarding the 19th of november when not instigated by the police. we coded the intelligence and investigations which showed us that this was something that was ordered that planned it was but over the campaign which was . that at any stage within the political campaigns if. no candidate is arrested then that would trigger that. sort of.

protests into more of an uprising so response. in in getting to restore sanity in kampala city because you remember we had very good at scenes where. over 8 hours we had people who couldn't go back to their homes there was a gridlock and we had violent. whose protests was not in any way connected to the wrist. but even now we've. deployed him and you know the police and military here in kampala and also we have been told in other towns as well what are you anticipating now. that we actually met responsive. to the threats to the magnitude of the threats that we're getting so it's. good to valuation of the threat level

because towards these elections we had a number of ugandans who where living in fear where even fearing to come out to participate in the elections there were some vulnerable groups that were being targeted with messages or duos of hades. or do that with this device divisive and so to restore assurance and confidence in the public we had to put it and level of vigilance and a lot in the public and the should but that we've got and has been very positive and this could have been witnessed by a. large turnout of voters we've not had the numbers before. this election is going to go down in history. surprising as one of the most peaceful elections that we've had. to see that thank you very much for talking to

us that the police spokesman as we wait for the final presidential results in this very difficult times. reporting from kampala. the un says attacks on 2 refugee camps in ethiopia is northern region are a major violation of international law satellite imagery shows fires burning and signs of destruction at those she melba and camps their home to refugees from neighboring eritrea the u.n. has lost access to the region and previously said food and medicine is running out and it's divers in indonesia have recovered parts of a cockpit voice recorder from the plane that crashed into the job a c. a week ago killing all 62 people on board the navy says it's found the casing but is still searching for the memory unit's the plane's flight data recorder was found earlier this week but the cockpit recordings could offer

a clearer picture as to why the boeing 737500 plunged into the sea minutes after takeoff from jakarta. and indonesia has begun administering the chinese made vaccine known as corona voc this week as part of a massive covert 1000. africa and it plans to vaccinate more than 180000000 people by march next year victoria gate b reports. center lizzie ana is a health worker in bali she's come to this clinic to receive the chinese made corona that. i had up at s.s. trust everything to the government rather than stressing over it the government has guaranteed it to say for us the president has been vaccinated as well as bali as governor i just have to get on with it indonesia was one of the 1st countries outside china to approve the vaccine developed by pharmaceutical firm sign of back health officials said human trials showed it 65 percent effective but that figure

has come under scrutiny from regulators brazilian scientists say the latest data shows it's only 50 percent effective health workers here say they're not worried. but i don't know who's a take to get the vaccine there was already a recommendation from the government there's no need to be afraid in my opinion just do what the government recommended. indymedia is prioritizing health workers and public officials in the 1st stage of its vaccine rollout hospital administrators say safe take up has been good. just today we vaccinated 28 people today there were another 28 people registered and they all came to be vaccinated it shows there's a huge desire to be protected from the corona virus. the plan is to inoculate 180000000 people by march next year the equivalent of 2 thirds of the population and hopefully curb southeast asia's worst outbreak of the coronavirus victoria gayton be al-jazeera. hundreds of thousands of hindu worshippers have gathered in

the indian city of harvard's war for one of the world's largest religious events the comella is going ahead despite the country recording more than $10000000.00 coronavirus cases and there's concern whether medical facilities can handle what's to come of those of a product reports from new delhi. before sunrise on the 1st day of the command festival hundreds of thousands of hindu pilgrims congregate on the banks of the ganges river in the northern city of haifa it was. as well as offering prayers people immerse themselves in the river and the belief that it will wash away this sense. everyone has come here because of the gun just as blessings. and all of the problems of. the 3 month festival is going ahead this year despite the coronavirus and the guy this country is a hindu country the majority is hindu so even the government needs to show some

flexibility when it comes to our religious festivals and beliefs. the events overnight says and police said they've deployed thousands of officers to ensure close in $1000.00 protocols were followed. that really are like you. all are welcome in the fair please come be offered prayers but follow the covert protocols where mosques use sanitizers. but few seem to be listening at the command and other end to festivals and via this week. millions of people are expected to visit. the state but this is called meda with tourism directors had the event to revive the economy that depends on religious tourism. but the state's high court has criticised the local government to allow them the event to go ahead it said medical facility to insufficient and the state isn't prepared what it cools and explosion of this is his elizabeth purana al-jazeera. china is building a core and facility that can hold up to 3000 patients in anticipation of

a spike in infections ahead of the lunar new year china has largely contained further spread of the virus but the resurgence in cases has raised concerns the 1st death in 8 months was reported in a province where most of the new infections have emerged the health commission says more than 1000 people are currently being treated for cope with 1926 of them are in a serious condition south africa has delayed the start of the school year as it battles to contain the spread of a more contagious strain of the groom a virus already say they want to prevent schools becoming transmission centers it's been reporting almost 20000 new cases a day for the past week more than 35000 people have died from the virus that's the highest on the continent. u.s. prosecutors are alleging some rioters who stormed the capitol last week intended to capture and assassinate elected officials court papers submitted in arizona for

this man jacob chan's lead to be arrested that memo has details of an f.b.i. investigation into him and it reveals that he warned in a note for u.s. vice president mike pence it's only a matter of time justice is coming chance these lawyers say he doesn't feel at fault and has asked for a presidential pardon. and the head of the f.b.i. is warning of potential violence in the run up to joe biden's inauguration the agency says there have been calls for armed protest on several social media platforms vice president mike pence has pledged to ensure a safe transition of power as security is stepped up in the capital mike hanna reports from washington d.c. . it looks like the capitol and the sea. fences topped with razor wire have been erected around the nation seat of government ever increasing numbers of soldiers are being deployed security officials saying that some 20000 will be sent

by the inauguration next wednesday that's greater than any current deployment anywhere in the world. even the supreme court is being locked down as well as other signature landmarks once thronged with tourists. vice president mike pence met with senior security officials to be briefed on the preparations for the american people deserve. a safe. inauguration on january 20th. and i encourage you to convey to all of the members of your teams to continue to lean forward to ensure that we achieve a just there but he heard a bleak assessment from the director of the f.b.i. we're concerned about the potential for violence multiple protests and rallies planned here in d.c. and it's the capitol building around the country in the days to come that could bring armed individuals within close proximity to government buildings and

officials and direct threats from right wing extremists have been growing in the wake of the impeachment vote against president trump on wednesday terrorist tricks might have restored just a few minutes ago the republicans who voted for impeachment a particular focus colleagues who are now traveling with armed escorts out of the fear for their safety many of us are altering their routines. or continue to get audio armor as yet another ominous evening fell the vice president thank some of the national god that have been deployed to the nation's capital on a scale not seen since the civil war. mike hanna al-jazeera washington bureau of the news hour it's time for a check on the weather here is rob. siberia remains deeply code it's not exporting much of it's cold for the southeast basically keeping where it is which means you're getting more or less as standard winter weather for most of china the korean

peninsula and japan that does wind up into storms as more snow coming for home she and her car to live his time are still left over in north korea and it's a sense courage airing saturday but mostly it is sunshine koba day and of course by night there is cloud increasing a central china edging out for the himalayan plateau some ramos there's a possibility here mostly of entirely on the high ground as you can see otherwise just think cold and sunny with out about seventy's max again in hong kong 114 in taipei. harassed for india the persistent cold and fog spreads those stars of the border important job further north because right up to the foothills of the himalayas it's not just for the course it gets very cold by day it does briefly get reasonable but by night we're down to single figures down to 2 degrees yesterday in new delhi it's colder than average now there might be a small improved was going to get to monday's yes to a bit but not much basically it is cold dry and often 40. still ahead on al-jazeera

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you're the news hour al-jazeera here the top stories the dutch government has resigned following a scandal involving child benefits thousands of parents were wrongly accused of fraud of prime minister mark gross will remain in a caretaker capacity until elections are held in march. a powerful earthquake has hit the. killing at least 34 people and injuring hundreds more buildings have been severely damaged and civil defense authorities are warning of strong aftershocks. early results from the general election show president yarima 70 has a strong lead but the opposition candidate has rejected the problem in a recount insisting the vote has been marred by widespread fraud and violence. so we were talking a moment ago about the dutch government the prime minister mark ross is speaking right now after announcing his cabinet resignation over that child subsidy scandal stuff. for an update what has the prime minister said so far.

well some very strong words are coming now from the prime minister about the performance of his own cabinet and about his own performance he sat the government failed to protect its own citizens and lots of things went horribly wrong many mistakes have been made and this is old the full responsibility of his cabinet and that's why he decided to submit his resignation. a few minutes before the press conference i have to explain what is at stake here more than 26000 families who are by. in a fitting from child care support were wrongly accused of fraud they had to pay back and in some instances tons of thousands of euros we're glad to to their bankruptcy 2 families become separated a lot of hardship for them but also around $11000.00 of these families were wrongly racially profiled as well so it was also a key accusations of institutional racism here that the tax office was using to

wrongly accused these people of misusing these funds which in fact wasn't the case so the prime minister said the most important thing is now to compensate these parents for their losses and their suffering for all these years so there will be some financial compensation but also he said that all the documents and decisions made by the cabinet in the future will be open to the public he doesn't want any. accusations again that things are going on behind the scenes behind closed doors and a lot of suspicion is being raised in society the big question is now will the people in the netherlands but also in parliament find this all enough the thing is that the elections are coming up on march 13th and prime minister mark rutte is running again in these elections as are some other ministers as well many questions are also being raised about this and about the credibility of these particular people

her it's a fascinating thank you. hong kong's internet domain firm says it will reject any new web sides it believes could incites illegal acts it comes less than a day off to an internet service provider admitted it had complied with the government's request to block access to a website run by pro-democracy activists authours have conducted a sweeping crackdown on dissent in recent weeks and under the new national security law imposed by beijing internet access is widely censored in mainland china but had been mostly free and hong kong. who's the editor in chief at hong kong free press is joining us from hong kong itself thanks for your time so what does this mean for the per free press in hong kong and freedom of speach. well the actions by this h.k. particularly alarming i guess on usual because they go beyond the traditional remakes

of what a dish the main registrar normally does in that pretty much anything it deems to be illegal or offensive it can now a movie but a lot more concerning the is or how you mentioned this website chronicles that has been censored taken down in hong kong or thirst and secure it's a more and somewhat rowing and we fear that although nobody is going to miss this what was basically a docking website for the police it could be the start of a slippery slope that could end in a system like we see with the greats i was just 20 miles north of you know in a in greater china so it's also interesting to know that you know this is kind of a political move and not just about doc thing in removing this kind of website because there is another website still online that docsis journalists and pro-democracy activists so you know we're already scrambling to react to the security law in some of these moves in recent days and that is indeed what the at

the broadband network said saying that they have blocked the sites which also publishes personal information on hong kong police officers in compliance with the national security law for what it's your response to that. yeah like a say no one is going to particularly you know raise too much along that particular website it's well it's the fact that it's clearly the 1st one but it's not going to be the last i'm. said the only ones to admit that police told them to take it down this comes under the national security law and it's article $43.00 that will reverse that but can compel service providers to remove information in the interests of taxing national security so this wasn't you know a voluntary thing that they did under the security law we've seen democracy books poll from lively shells a song banned in schools. and around the pro-democracy activists as you mention but it's also left the media often so censoring the public broadcaster here as one it's

tough not to interview those democrats who were arrested last week and it's deleted an interview with a wanted a dissident so your politics are not being clear about what's allowed what's not the lines are very fuzzy the goalposts keep moving and when we do us questions as to what is allowed come into the person can we film someone fade burning national flag we can get straight answers so i would argue with laurie is very much designed to make the media censor and we've had to sort of guess as to how to react about our rights i will leave it there thank you so much for speaking to us from hong kong tom clancy now the u.s. has added chinese smartphone maker shammai to its economic blacklist washington says the company and 8 others have links to the chinese military and u.s. investors have until november to divest their stakes or face penalties the company

has become the world's 3rd largest smartphone maker benefiting from a previous blacklist of y. way. russia says it's withdrawing from the open skies military treaty which was meant to build trust between russia and the west the air corps in effect since 2002 allows signatory countries on armed surveillance flights over each other's territory the u.s. withdrew last year accusing russia of violations moscow rejects that and says it's leaving because of lack of progress european countries and canada remain in the treaty. and outspoken labor union leader accused of inciting social unrest has gone on trial in cambodia this is part of the government's wider crackdown on opposition politicians and their supporters wrong sharon was arrested in july after he questioned the government's new demarcation off its eastern border with vietnam wrong faces up to 2 years in prison if found guilty and this comes

a day after another cambodia court resumed a mass trial of 60 people with ties to a banned opposition party the us says it's met its goal of reducing its number of troops in afghanistan to 2500 by this month despite a law gets congress passed new measures 2 weeks ago prohibiting the move that was promised by donald trump so now with uncertainty over peace talks and an increase in violence some fear the draw back could further destabilize afghanistan failure contre for the reports from kabul. it's america's longest war longer even than vietnam but it could now be approaching an end for afghanistan however it could just be the beginning of even more uncertain times the pullout of u.s. troops has raised fears that without a peace deal between the taliban and the afghan government in place there will be even more violence you already he defines there because as we speak there's

fighting going on inside kandahar city and district 8 and 9. so the taliban are now moving from rural areas to urban warfare and that means that the afghan forces are now fighting the taliban in fact the cities now or the city outskirts the american soldiers who remain in afghanistan are part of a u.s. led nato mission foreign troops from dozens of other nations for the 1st time outnumber the americans nato trains the afghan security forces and relies heavily on the u.s. military for intelligence and logistics nato says it will decide on its future not gana stand in february a former afghan military chief warns of dire consequences and not only for afghanistan if all countries decide to pull out and 5 years time if the democracy the iraqi gained newly gained very weak fragile

democracy is not supported then it will break. it will go into pieces the current 2 will be turned back and towards we had in the ninety's now then what happens you will have explored every day in london and frankfurt and bonn and washington and a role model whatever street you think nato secretary general jens stoltenberg says the alliance may pay a heavy price if there is a hasty and i'm co-ordinated withdrawal he fears of ghana's stand could again become a place from where international armed groups could organize attacks on the united states and its allies the taliban has welcomed this abrupt drawdown of american troops because it brings it closer to its main goal a complete 4 into a withdrawal security has been rapidly deteriorating across the country and even

here in kabul explosions and targeted assassinations have become daily events afghans see their country in a downward spiral and some are more than happy to be rid of us troops. americans must leave us a presence is meaningless the reason is that americans were not able to bring security in afghanistan in 17 years and were not able to bring peace for the afghan people. but others see problems ahead. we're going towards more difficulties and we're getting more concerned and all the people especially the young are asking the u.s. to continue their support the keep their troops at least some to stay in afghanistan. now all eyes are on the next u.s. president joe biden who has suggested he wants to keep a small military presence in afghanistan in which case america's longest war will

become even longer filioque contra for a couple australia is. urging tech giant google to focus on paying for abuse content instead of blocking its his followers reports australian news websites are not showing up on google search engine google and facebook are among tech companies fighting against the government's plan to force tech companies to pay for news content australia insists its plans will save jobs in struggling news publishing bot forms market storm is the federal president of australia's media union he says the goal is to get google and facebook to make up for the advertising revenue media outlets of last. well google and facebook now have an effective monopoly of the distribution of online news but in a strike there and in many other markets the amount of money that they've given back is sleeping were welcome but it's it's a drop in the ocean compared to the amount of money that is being driven out of advertising from news organizations which was used to sustain journalism into high

school. so what this is seeking to remedy is for some of that money to go back to news organizations part of the problem is that there's no guarantee that money will go towards journalism and that's one of the concerns that we have as a union these big tech companies seem to be regulating what goes on in civil society suspending people from. networks and rather than civil society being up to regulate what happens on the on the tech giants what a strike is trying to do to get around that is where is inspiring. google just suspended their entire google spain news tap if that was to happen here and google was still distributing known astray in news or as they were in spain on spanish news google operating he could still caught up to $10000000.00 fine for those breached so that's one way they've got around but it is something that we need to face up to as

a society these organizations to be do they have too much power and how can we effect of lee regulate big take when they operate across jurisdictions a growing number of scientists and medical experts are turning to social media platform to talk to tackle misinformation about coronavirus vaccines charlie angela spoke to some of them. when looking for information about covert vaccines many young people turn to social media and scientists who developed them of their to help often straight from the lab hi everyone apparently ready. this international team put together by the un on tip top posting videos about their work questions to promote confidence in vaccines and doing a bit of singing and singing to. dr paul mackay on the imperial college vaccine in the u.k. currently in phase 2 trials he's also researching the new code variant while challenging and he backs misinformation to the number one question is politically

this is rushed these there's no safety data for this how can you possibly make a vaccine in this so much time so people are concerned that the crops the same safety analyses haven't been done on these vaccines that are done every other fact scenes and we can assure them that it's exactly the same. rigorous safety analysis is has been done on all of these vaccines. go to alabama a cli is another has become an unlikely internet style with her in gauging vaccine explanations putting in 3000000 lights had ticked up video on formulating a vaccine imperial college is a tribute to dolly parton. says. she hopes people watch her videos for the entertainment but stay for the science and she says this way she can connect with the general public and reassure them about

the speed at which the vaccine is valid it's ingredients and side effects when i'm talking to people i try to just be really open minded you know people have a whole number of reasons why they might be hesitant to get a back seen and you know oftentimes lots of really good reasons why they shouldn't get a vaccine i'm really not there to convince people to get a vaccine i want to be there to educate the. and give them the data and you know educate them about vaccines as opposed to convincing them so i'm there to answer questions i'm not trying to like change somebodies mind but m.t.v. that says all trying to change minds developing an online narrative with 3 key messages that cave in 1000 is not dangerous the vaccine is dangerous and vaccine advocates cannot be trusted but this misinformation could close knives when these scientists injecting the facts into the forum they have to stay people towards the truth. still ahead on the news hour a former heavyweight champion receives the cover 1000 about seeing

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business leaders is by no brass power. and here's peter with the sports news peter 3 thank you the head of switzerland's football federation says it's unlikely the delayed european championships can be held across 12 cities as originally planned the mc plan believes it could be held in one country or one major city with enough stadiums like london blank is in no doubt it will be staged with no fans and says it would be a financial catastrophe if it was canceled altogether of being pushed back

a year the euros are set to start on june 11th the fever club world cup is coming up in 2 weeks but new zealand's all concerned here see have pulled out because of the quarantine measures required by the new zealand or thorazine the tournament which involves all continental club champions we played across 3 of the 2022 world cup stadiums organs withdrawal means the 1st round has been dropped but otherwise the format is unchanged. the african nations championship starts in cameroon on saturday despite coronavirus concerns safety measures are in place with a limited number of fans allowed inside stadiums david stokes reports. it's the start of what set to be a huge 12 months for football in cameroon next year the country will host the continent's flagship international tournament the cup of nations and this week the african nations championship is kicking off a 16 country event for players who feature in their domestic leagues 19 meant the

tournament was delayed by 9 months. due to covert football was stopped not only in cameroon but all over the world organizing this tournament is a good thing for africa and the world even if there are restrictions the stadiums can be a 25 percent capacity during the group stages and hopefully 50 percent for the knockout rounds for visiting teams it's a chance to play top level football at a time when many african leagues face delays and disruption even it could mean a team life need to continue in positive way so that people get the hope because people are affected by 2 peaks one medical and 2nd one mental so we need to play a mentality all that woodward being played gives the hope to people to not be steady and mentally disturbed. cameroon was meant to host the last cup of nations but egypt had to step in due to delays in stadium construction hundreds of millions

of dollars is being spent readying the 6 venues that will host the event when it arrives in the west african nation next january you know the worry is the opposite . we've seen it with other countries especially with born in the quarter are going to win the war of missions on the invested millions and millions of dollars in their rectum facilities which turned out to be white elephant projects in the short term cameroon stadiums will be busy as the country becomes a focal point for international football in africa david stokes al-jazeera the german doctor who masterminded an international blood doping ring has been sentenced to 95 years in prison locksmiths doped dozens of athletes of 8 years many in winter sports and cycling blood doping aims to boost the number of red blood cells which allows the body to transport more oxygen and increases stamina performance schmidt is not allowed to practice as a doctor for 3 years and has been fined $191000.00

a motorcycle rider has died after crashing on the back already in saudi arabia 52 year old frenchman chopin was placed in a medically induced coma after the accident 5 days ago he passed away will be transferred by plane from jeddah to france is the 3rd rider to die in the rally into use. the news service shattered the final day of competition which saw stephan petter hansell secure a record extending victory in the car category french driver known as mr that car has now won 14 times his 1st victory was on a motorcycle way back in 1901. australia's cricketers are off to a solid start in the 4th test against india in brisbane they won the toss and batted on day one but that one over to her own way at 1st steve smith heavily criticized for appearing to remove the batsman's marks on the pitch in sydney was the 3rd batsman to fall before the hosts reached 100 but the day belonged to monosyllabic shane with the number 3 hitting his 1st taste turn he was eventually

out for 108 with the australians on 274 for 5 at stumps. down to new zealand where britain's america's cup sailing team has come roaring back into full team really are sled by olympic champion jane ainslie lost all 6 of their races in the december regard but it was a different story on friday when they won the opening 2 races of the challenger series is still plenty of racing a for the overall winner of the series will earn the right to face team new zealand for the main america's cup in march. no james harden no problem at least that was true for the houston rockets in their 1st game since trading their star god to the brooklyn nets he stood were up against the san antonio spurs on tuesday after battling to feeds to the l.a. lakers hot publicly declared the team could not compete for the championship and that the situation could not be fixed well the rockets pulled off 810-9106 win over the spirit here with christian good contribution 27 points and 15 rebounds.

to the n.f.l. in what promises to be an historic battle between 2 of the game's veteran players the tampa bay buccaneers are taking on the new orleans saints c. in the playoffs which puts quarterbacks tom brady and drew brees up against each other recent $42.00 today and brady is $43.00 which means with a combined age of 85 years this will be the oldest pair of course backs in any game in n.f.l. history when tom brady signed with the box and i knew he was coming artist i envision this game not so what was that 9 months ago 8 months ago. i envision this game happening. because i knew our aspirations as a team. to be in the playoffs and beyond and i certainly knew what he was bringing into the box and i felt that roster. and so i think this is probably

where we all envision being we're going to keep trying to make improvements and we've got a big test this weekend one of the great teams in the n.f.l. and consistently been one of the great teams for a long time and we're happy go play great football game now as a former heavyweight boxing will champion george foreman is no stranger to jabs and this was him getting his covert 19 vaccination in texas when the heavyweight title twice but is perhaps most famous of using the rumble in the jungle fights against muhammad ali he's 72 now and once others to follow him in getting the vaccine. the scary shot i have to live in now took good name to the center for well how do you do a straight right here that's got me. everything if they're not going to reveal what i'll be shot for this is no right this is no big deal as a matter of fact is the most welcoming shot out of hand in my mind. ok we'll leave

it there for now more sports news later during the capital we'll see you later thank you and thanks for watching the news hour on al jazeera back in just a moment with more of the day's news coming your way see you then. they come in home and in search of work to provide a better life for the families they've left behind. but though their labor is vital to release food industry they risk exploitation by corporations and organized crime . trapped in a system with little hope of escape people in power investigates seeks links on al-jazeera. after unprecedented scenes of violence and chaos on capitol hill joe biden and kamel harris will be sworn into office but with

a bitterly obstructive for the president and a continuing pandemic just so different will the traditional celebrations need to be special coverage of the u.s. presidential inauguration are now busier as the perseverance space rover has to to land on mars we ask nurses lead engineer how her journey as an immigrant has influenced to work creativity and resourceful that is incredibly important perseverance as well like don't give up aerospace engineer deanna trujillo talks to al-jazeera. al-jazeera where every. al-jazeera has an investigative team a team censored and unseen video for blue hot filmed as the coronal by was a great he's just beginning. leaving on all those years to actually tell me about.

exposing this secrecy and censorship by chinese authorities. ha ha ha ha ha and a health system struggling to cope i'll just see the investigation 3 days that still the world. the dutch government collapses over a child benefit scandal for wrongly labeling thousands of parents as fraudsters. this is all just their own lie from headquarters in doha. i'm debbie navigator also coming up at least 34 people are killed and hundreds injured as a powerful earthquake topples buildings in indonesia's sulawesi islands early

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