he became an ultra crap and was imprisoned for the killing of protesters. the story of the rise and fall of hosni mubarak the family episode one. this is al-jazeera. that they're on the clock this is a new life and coming up the next 60 minutes the pentagon confirms there's been a further reduction in u.s. troops in both afghanistan and iraq fulfilling a promise made by president donald trump. a pop star turned presidential candidate probably one says the military has entered his home after his claims of foreign violence in thursday's election. at least 34 people are dead and hundreds injured

after a powerful earthquake on. the island. the dutch government resigns every child care scandal that wrongly accused thousands of. sports news as well madrid knocked out of the spanish super cup and despite coronavirus concerns cameroon gets ready to host football's african nations championship with a limited number of fans inside stadiums. so then u.s. troop levels in iraq and afghanistan have been cut to the lowest level in nearly 2 decades there are now $2500.00 troops in each country that's down from more than 4500 in afghanistan and around about 3000 in iraq the u.s. had already reduced its numbers in afghanistan from 14000 last year after

a deal was made with the taliban at the height of the war with iraq will than 125000 u.s. troops were deployed well there were over 100000 in afghanistan in 2011 well take a closer look at the situation in iraq shortly but 1st let's have this report now. rufio contre 40 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 read he defines there because as we speak there's fighting going on inside kandahar city district 8 or 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 city is 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 in 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 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 or a 1000000. 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 should 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 failure contre for a couple. ations in afghanistan let's look at the what the drawdown means in iraq we can speak to him at the risk to his director of the house of iraqi expertise foundation joins us from baghdad by skype firstly welcome to the program now this

has very much made an anticipated drawdown of troops but what are the implications of this as far as you're concerned. well a to come as the president trump said that he will withdraw. most of the troops in iraq and afghanistan and that let us not forget is that before one year the attack and hits a day the assassination of concentrated money and i will mention my and it's actually made the iraq human issue more furious which is you know probably rainy and militia very furious against the american forces and they went to their parliament we get a decision not to look it's a decision that it is not obligate that means it's not an obligation for the iraqi government to push the many come forces out of iraq so it's a no win i've got it's just i said it's a promise that the president said that he will decrease the number of the troops in

iraq and it also does not mean that there will be a complete withdrawal of the american forces from iraq and also does not mean that the militia will not attack american forces presented on the iraqi soil right yeah but where it's the currently there's 3000 u.s. troops there it's down to 500 which is a reduction sort of down to 2500 i should say which is a reduction of just 500 on the face of it doesn't say much but there are those who feel it's asking for trouble it will leave a vacuum. you know when another maybe it's a message from let's say from the new or administration in washington to say is that we want to make some sort of a truce or maybe with some sort of a deal with the iranian about the presence of the american forces in iraq and mainly in iraq but in a way i don't know that i don't think the situation will be secure enough for there many can force is in iraq. i'm still thinking of months still saying is that then

we will have some sort of attacks on the on those forces on the iraqi soil saw and also maybe they were going to shoot we going to see also some sort of reaction a military action from their many concourses against not only against the militia but maybe also against the iranian bases inside iran because what that what the american said and the pentagon said is that we are highly and sure is that old diminish us taking weapons from iran and oldham assad's esteem is also came from iran so ok you can imagine is that it's it's not very stable situation when another short what do you think of the ability of iraqi forces to protect the kind of how this needed across iraq's territory and keep those militias and those groups from taking hold. well in you know i want experience with mr carville me for the last 6 months it's not promising he he could not actually

secure baghdad from securing the embassy from the attacks that happened by the militia until he sent a convoy lets out so he sent a delegation to iraq to ask iran to stop the attacking. militia to. enforce the militia not attacking the american embassy in baghdad any longer so you can imagine we don't have. the law let's say we are not very optimistic about the present self to say coddling me to secure baghdad or let's say to make the iraqi forces more eligible to stop those attacks maybe the next government after the elections which is sponsored one from jul and until october maybe the next government can do something like that because you know when i know that it will be a government of majority not the prime minister without any bloc supporting him inside the parliament so you can see the new difference between the 2 proper prime

ministers the one dot he is now without any support from the parliament and the next prime minister should be have should have the support from the the next parliament it will count after the elections ok we appreciate that thanks for a perspective of interesting things well you also come you must look. now a ugandan opposition leader probably wind says the military has raided his home. claimed victory in the presidential elections military denies this claim official figures show the pop star turned politician trailing the incumbency where the most of any wind has rejected the results and made claims of election irregularities and voter interference that's crossbred waits catherine so he joins us live from kampala and catherine bell the one saying that the military's take. control of his home what are you hearing. what yes of this spoken to bobby why not too long ago and he said that yes this happened that the military who had

been surrounding his home some soldiers jumped into his compound beat up his guards have arrested one and some journalists who are there also informing us that the future presence all soldiers are huge present particularly of the military around his house but military u.b.s. official saying that yes there's an incident that happened but it's not the way bobby was explaining and joining me is lesson and panels you are cheeky who's the deputy defense pokes not the spokesperson thank you for your time what exactly is happening aboard the one's home thank you so one thing they want to inform of there was to inform ugandans as where is that our road security is to ensure that we have had a peaceful election and found to go that way elections have been peaceful than ever before and our groceries to give security under the security is for ugandans for

their property and for anybody leaving in any uganda so what happened in the mud they were in as a presidential candidate is not a common person he's not an ordinary person we have to ensure that we monitor his the security alert to make sure we ensure that he's a safe until the declaration because all of them are still candidates and jointer working with the police we are providing security to everyone then why didn't jump into his car the incidence of that happened he was talking to secure to genting to his fans it is not a true what's happened to the city people who moved from kampala side approaching his compound the city people when they reached and they really mean 3 unarmed people so. they realize that these are. 3 civilians and not to the security when they realize that they are security because his home is also along the road and these deployments along with those are on their deployments to ensure that as

a presidential candidate also has a safe they realize some people coming and deployed to buckle i designed a decided to jump over there were. doing is compound some go to by either vigilance of our security or one of them was arrested on the 2 of them were in no way the one who has been arrested is that the police. got to police station in about a con to go and ask the district police commander there and he would probably access these bus and are they going to be too early because we're already interested in knowing why you people who are coming as guests of doing it will do choose to jump all over the world instead of using the gates i want around his premises and all around that area is security purposes we can't allow somebody to jump the fence because we don't know the intention but it's not true that the people who jumped jumping over us or security personnel but it is a civilian we don't know whether you know zazi is guests or not but

a security we took interest and arrested in this bus and on these we the police station he faces that the people that the military the soldiers that. actually cannot. go were not strangers got something to his compound saw you we have heard all types of allegations unfortunately some from lead us and we are getting used to eat and what is important for us is to make sure we put the fuck sabera the bus so know who jumped over his compound was arrested on these of a level he would attend to his story if he was security we were not to be saying that we know this person we could have saved him no we have not to go to them and the 2 who are in i would if we manage to get to them they were also explained it is a very simple it's common sense that if somebody of the security the one who jumped to that definitely have access to him and he was sort of should have been able to

see them. ok thank you very much that was deputy defense folks man we've had 2 versions of this story there's been a lot of back and forth a lot of accusations we've got the one accusing security forces of using too much force on him and he's supportive and security forces accusing him like official government official that huge thing of inciting security forces in fighting the police in fighting the military. support of attacking police as well so back to you. live there for a moment about you later there in kampala now the u.n. says attacks on 2 refugee camps in ethiopia northern region are a major violation of international law satellite imagery shows fires burning in signs of destruction at the. camp camps there home to refugees from neighboring eritrea the u.n. has lost access to the region and previously said food and medicine is running out

. 46 people have been killed in a rebel attack an east and democratic republic of congo security forces discovered the bodies in bush landed materia province 2 others were injured a group known as the allied democratic forces is believed to be responsible. the un refugee agency is calling for fighting in central african republic to stop that says the number of people fleeing to neighboring countries has doubled to 60000 in one week a wednesday rebels tried to attack the capital bangui but were pushed back by security forces and coalition of armed groups wants to overthrow president faster or challenge to a debtor he won a 2nd term in office in december. but more head on the news including on high alert security has dramatically ramped up in washington d.c. ahead of president-elect biden's in oration next week. it's one of the world's largest religious events and is taking place during the pandemic told to take you to india so cool. and a former heavyweight champion receives a k.

with $1000.00 in that's come out peter in school. at least 42 people are dead and 600 injured after a magnitude 6.2 earthquake hit the indonesian island of silly ways and thousands in the cities of magin and mehmood who are displaced and authorities would have potential aftershocks indonesia across britain just to washington as this report. on the indonesian island of saloon 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 the house but on. 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 joke over doto says every effort will be made to get to those in need so . i 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. on the seas 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 the stills and i mean potential. meter money car a 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 just to washington al-jazeera jakarta. divers in today's you know have recovered parts of a cockpit voice recorder from the plane that crashed into the java sea a week ago killing all 62 people on board the navy says it's found the casing is still searching for the memory unit at 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 just minutes after takeoff from jakarta.

us a prosecutor's are alleging some right to storm the capital loss we contended to capture and assassinate elected officials court papers submitted in arizona for this man jacob chance lead to be arrested at the member has the details of an f.b.i. investigation into him reveals he warned in a note for us vice president might pence it's only a matter of time justice is coming charles these lawyers say he doesn't feel at fault and has asked for a presidential pardon speak to an official joins us live from washington d.c. and out and say the investigations and arrest continue apace into last week's capitol hill storming just as an internal watchdog is a profile the justice department prepared ahead of the capitol riots. there's some criticism of the way that the f.b.i. and other government agencies prepared for what happened last wednesday while the f.b.i. initially said that they were expecting such a huge crowd to move so quickly towards the capitol of course there was criticism

because it's been all over the internet for more than 2 weeks or so in fact some sites actually had detailed plans there were detailed outlines of where various offices where how to get around the capitol complex all of those what available so the f.b.i. came under criticism there was some suggestion that the federal agencies had felt that the criticism during the summer with the way they marshaled the black lives matter protest was extreme so they wanted to take a step back from that but simply they were caught by what happened last wednesday so this in 10 the report will look at whether or not they put the necessary bodies in place one of the things they will inevitably look at is why it took so long for the national guard to be in place why when they called up beforehand and the way that they have been for the inauguration comely around 20000 national guard members here in washington d.c. and we're told that they have the ability to call up at least 5000 more if required

if there is any violence over the weekend because we have been told that there are protests planned for there and of course on wednesday itself one thing that is heartening federal investigators is that on line it seems that the suggestion of violence is ebbing away slightly simply because those who thought they could come to washington d.c. on sunday and cause problems or on inauguration realize they will be vastly outnumbered by the people that are know in place ready to protect the capital from the president trump in his last days in office. nothing from him today he's not even in the oval office at the moment we know that my parents spent some time with him yesterday before heading out to capitol hill to thank the soldiers who were there on duty and headed to the federal emergency management agency fema to thank them for all the efforts that they've had mike pence is doing his final rounds of goodbyes normally the president would do that sort of thing but at the moment

donald trump is either holed up in the residence or making is we over to the oval office of course he had that trip down to texas on tuesday normally at this stage we would be thinking about when he would make his final address when he would make his final appearance in the briefing room when he would make his final trip on air force one that looks likely to be on tuesday someone told me that they expect donald trump to travel down to florida on tuesday of course we know he's not going to be at the inauguration on wednesday i was told that his intention is that he will be playing golf when joe biden is inaugurated as the $46.00 president of the united states as for what happens in the hours between leaving here and joe biden becoming president i was told well look donald trump believes he can be president from anywhere. right and thanks for that official washington d.c. the dutch government has collapsed over a child care subsidies scandal that had a devastating impact on thousands of families the prime minister mark ritter and

his cabinet to quit after report blame them for mismanaging these subsidies thousands of parents were wrongly accused of fraud some were forced into bankruptcy ritter will remain in office in a caretaker capacity until elections which are already scheduled for march let's go live to step out and amsterdam for the latest step the government taking responsibility but the effects still in power and written plans to stand the next election. absolutely right so this walk of shame so to speak is seen as merely symbolic here by many even including the parents who have become victims of this huge scandal in which prime minister mark curtis said the government did not protect its citizens many mistakes have been made many things have gone horribly wrong so he is taking responsibility the

cabinet is taking responsibility but they will all stay on except for one minister of economic affairs who has actually resigned but the government will stay on to take care of course of this serious grown up and make and the next week at 9 weeks there will be an election and prime minister mark or 2 will run again and there were many questions about this during the press conference he held after he announced that the cabinet has resigned many were asking him why are you not taking individual responsibility you were the prime minister for the last 10 years many of these years this this kind of happened when the tax office was hunting down tens of thousands of dutch families wrongly accusing them of fraud racially profiling them discriminating them because of where they're coming from their double nationality so there's a lot of questions being asked why is prime minister rather not feeling personally responsible and he said that he didn't have the individual responsibility as

a minister and he wants the voters to decide in march so assuming he does stand for the election what the question is what will the electorate make a bit. well that's a good question the parents are not happy many here in holland are questioning his his insistence that he can still politically be credible but on the other hand his party is still very popular and also his role as a prime minister the last 10 years he's still very popular despite a lot of criticism also on his handling of the grown up and that make but he has this tendency and it's been called here as the as the doctrine that a lot of things sort of slipping away from him he doesn't seem to be touched by any of the scandals or problems that have been rising here in the netherlands in the last 10 years so there's a still a big chance that he will do very well during these elections but of course we're not there yet we still have 9 weeks to go and

a lot of questions will be raised in the in the in that time in the forest up. in arms about italy's former premier mercury and he says he doesn't think the prime minister to say picante has enough support to win a confidence vote scheduled for next week plunged into political chaos wednesday when he withdrew his party from the ruling coalition risking the government's collapse tensions between the 2 men have been rising for weeks over the handling of the covert 19 outbreak that has killed more than 80000 people. still ahead here an al-jazeera nowhere to hide the hong kong government's intensifying crackdown on dissent targets activists online. how scientists aren't injecting drugs into social media to tackle misinformation about coronavirus drugs. and a steady stuff australia in the 4th test against india in brisbane people behave poorly .

for. the last few showers or like to show up i think on saturday somewhere across the middle of saudi arabia but then all eyes probably need to look north because of east and met is follow showers again stormy weather really it's snow for turkey snow for the higher parts of syria and eventually even iraq by the time we get to sunday beirut catches it with the onshore wind frequency as very windy i suspect near gale winds on sunday the temperatures aren't affected much she's just going to feel pretty cold and frequently sherry there will be some flash flooding here the picture for sunday's france the system eastwards and will be rain or snow depending on your heart but sea level as i said in syria northern iraq whatever else remains quiet and that's true for almost all of iran until at least the start of monday

when you know it's been pretty wet recently in southern africa particularly in the movie it looks like cape town's temperatures back down to no one now you're in the sunshine was a breeze coming off the season mersa time $23.00 degrees pretty heavy showers seemed likely further east and south africa post missiles will catch them than much of the heavy stuff goes off shore but every day we will get showers in the tank and across the border then concerns and sudden mozambique later in the weekend. frank assessments you've got colleagues on the ground in the canaries what is the situation there's only one doctor and one nurse or 2200 people informed opinions how big this foreign policy they get in the early stages of on this ration he comes into office with a huge amount of foreign policy experience in-depth analysis of the dates global

headlines how will a place like it live get the vaccine when there's no money and all the rest of rich countries are fighting for it inside story on al-jazeera. it is murder when you throw a firebomb into someone's home and mishit you off trashing you know i think that's not insignificant in numbers that insignificant ideologically that is significant even as a crime against the very significant by dictating the government and the fact of policy now shall not kill the radicalized series on al-jazeera.

are going to watching out their mind about top stories this hour and the u.s. says it has met its goal of reducing its number of troops in afghanistan iraq to 2500 despite congress passing new measures 2 weeks ago prohibiting the move that was posed by. a powerful earthquake has hit the indonesian island of silly ways it could be at least 34 people and injuring hundreds more many buildings have been severely damaged in civil defense authorities are warning of strong aftershocks. the dutch government has resigned following a scandal involving child benefits thousands of parents were wrongly accused of fraud prime minister malaki to remain in a caretaker capacity to elections how. does on the chin 1000000 people have now died from a crowd of ours globally indonesia has begun administering the chinese made vaccine

. as part of a massive inoculation effort against covert 19 applies to vaccinate more than 180000000 people by march next year. as this. central is yana is a health worker in bali she's come to this clinic to receive the chinese made. by hand 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 into these he was one of the 1st countries outside china to approve the vaccine developed by pharmaceutical firms sign it back health officials said human trial showed its efficacy was 65 percent but that figure has come under scrutiny from regulators brazilian scientists say the latest data shows its efficacy is only 50 percent health workers here say they're not worried so. 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 a fright in my opinion just do what the government recommended. indeed media is prioritizing health workers and public officials in the 1st stage of its vaccine rollout hospital administrators say safe thought takeup has been good. yesterday 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 at this community center in tango rang near the capital jakarta people say the vaccine rollout has brought a glimmer of hope i'm lame and i'm going to be somewhat tangoed hopefully the vaccine can break the chain of the covered 19 virus so that the pandemic will end soon because there have been so many victims in our country the plan is to inoculate 180000000 people by march next year the equivalent of 2 thirds of the

population and hopefully curb southeast asia as worst outbreak of the coronavirus victoria gayton be al-jazeera. brazil's army has sent almost in supplies to amazonas state health research in corona virus infections left hospital short of supplies it's fairly new variant of the virus originally detected in the state capital of manassas could be more contagious but as whaler announced it will send oxygen to brazil to help with the shortages nearly 6000 people have died in them so in a state where the health system is at the point of collapse. and china is building a quarantine facility that can hold up to 3000 patients in anticipation of a spike of infections ahead of the lunar new year china has largely contained further spread of the corona virus but the resurgence in cases has raised concerns the 1st death in 8 months was reported in heber province where most of the new infections have emerged the country's health commission says more than 1000 people a currently being treated for cope with 926 of them are in serious condition.

well hundreds of thousands of hindu worshippers have gathered in the indian city of for one of the world's largest religious events that's going on is headed despite the country recording more than $10000000.00 credit cards cases and there's concern whether the city's medical facilities can handle what's to come this with perna reports now from new delhi. before sunrise on the 1st day of the festival hundreds of thousands of hindu pilgrims congregate on the banks of the ganges river in the northern city of haifa. as well as offering prayers people immerse themselves in the river and the belief that it will wash away their sins. everyone has come here because of the gun. and all of the problems of. the 3 month festival is going ahead this year despite the coronavirus. 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 the use. the events organizers and police at the deployed thousands of offices to ensure. was a followed. that really we are all are you. all are welcome in the fair please come be offered prayers but follow the covert protocols where mosques used sanitizers. 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 with the. tourism director said the event will revive the economy that depends on religious tourism. but the state's high court has criticised the local government for allowing the event to go ahead it said medical facilities are insufficient and the state isn't prepared for what it calls an explosion of this is his elizabeth al-jazeera you daddy. south africa has delayed the start of the school year is it

battles to contain the spread of a more contagious strain of creative us authorities 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 is the highest toll on the continent. a growing number of scientists and medical experts attorney to social media platform to talk to tackle misinformation about coronavirus vaccines charlie angela spent some of the. 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 take top posting videos about their work altering questions to promote confidence in vaccines and doing a bit of singing and dancing 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 is 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 out of the lake leigh 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. where.

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 developed its 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 them. 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 mt vacs is trying to change minds developing an online narrative with 3 key messages that cave in $1000.00 is not dangerous the vaccine is dangerous and vaccine advocates cannot be trusted but this misinformation could cost knives with these scientists injecting the facts into the fore and they have to step people towards the truth.

russia says is withdrawing from the open skies military treaty which was meant to build trust between russia and the west the accord which has been in effect since 2002 allows signatory countries surveillance flights over each other's church the u.s. withdrew last year accusing russia of violations moscow rejects that and says it's leaving because of a lack of progress european countries in kind of the they were made in the treaty. north korea has unveiled what it says a new submarine launched ballistic missiles the period 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 broad reports now 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 demean 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 ballistic missile 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 korean leadership is so corner and so frustrated then we cannot rule out the possibility that north korea will take all wrong path at least say at the beginning of the biden or the ministration mainly in order to get the attention from washington to restart negotiations with the united states in recent speeches kim jong un has made it clear he intends to push ahead with further development of his nuclear arsenal that doesn't necessarily put him on a collision course with the u.s. and the return to the acrimonious relations of the past but it does compare compilation when needed but the recent period of face to face summit miles is officially. promised bridewell just there so. an outspoken labor union leader accused of inciting social unrest is going on trial in cambodia this is part of the government's wide a crackdown on opposition politicians and their supporters wrong was arrested in

july question the government's new demarcation of its eastern border with the wrong faces up to 2 years in prison if found guilty this comes a day after another cambodia court resumed a mass trial of 60 people with ties to a banned opposition party. a us born lawyer living in hong kong has maintained his innocence after his arrest last week john clancy and dozens of others were detained over their involvement in last year's unofficial primary election they're accused of planning to paralyze the government and state power john clancy became the 1st forward to be detained under the controversial national security law i don't think i've done anything wrong that merits time in prison. but it will have to wait to see what the courts say. as i mentioned to others there's the courts now have a big big decision to make on the one hand we have all these basic rights. including the right to democracy voting for you expression built into the basic law

and the other hand we have this new national security law both played a national people's congress to the courts and the judges ultimately will how to decide you know which takes precedence and which is stronger. hong kong is into the main firm says it will reject any new web sites it believes could incite illegal acts comes less than a day after an internet service provider admitted it had complied with a government request to block access to a website run by pro-democracy activists. have conducted a sweeping crackdown on dissent in recent weeks under the new national security law which has been imposed by beijing internet access is widely sense it in mainland china but had to be mostly free in home called tom grundy is the editor in chief of the hong kong free press and he says this sets a dangerous precedent for the future of internet freedom in hong kong. the actions by this h.k. technically alarming i guess unusual because they go beyond the traditional remit

of what a dish domain registrar normally does in that pretty much anything it deems to be a legal expense and you can now remove but a lot more concerning than is website h.k. chronicles that is censored taken down in hong kong 1st and insecurity lauren 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 great fire wall just 20 miles north. in greater china under this security law we've seen democracy books pulled from library shelves a song banned in schools. and around the pro-democracy activists but it's also left the media of censoring the public broadcaster here as one it's tough not to interview those democrats arrested last week and it's deleted an interview with

a wanted dissident so far it is not being clear about what's allowed what's not the lines are very fuzzy the goalposts keep moving and when we do ask questions as to what is allowed come into view that person can we film someone say burning national we can get straight answers so i would argue this lore is very much designed to make the media censor and we've had to sort of gases that how to react. the us the chinese smartphone makers the army to its current blacklist washington so the army and 8 other companies have links to the chinese military and the 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 forward. australia is urging the tech giant google to focus on paying for news content instead of blocking it this follows reports of

australian news websites are not showing up on google search engine google and facebook are among the tech companies fighting against the government's plan to force tech companies to pay for news content straighter insists its plans will save jobs in struggling news publishing platforms marcus stroman is the federal president of a straight media union he says the goal is to get to 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 stroller 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 facebook. 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 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 out to regulate what happens on the on the tech giants what a strain is trying to do to get around that is where is inspiring. good or just suspended their entire google spain news tab if that was to happen here and google was still distributing. 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 that got around but it is something that we need to face up to as a society are these organizations to be do they have too much power and how can we effect of li regulate big take when they operate across jurisdictions friday marks 20 years since the

a volunteer produced internet encyclopedia wiki pedia was founded the website is the 7th most popular worldwide and aims to spend the next 20 years further expanding free access to information we can pedia was founded in 2001 by the american british entrepreneur jimmy wales it's now available in the 309 languages. sports coming up next here dogs or britons saving team comes warned back into form ahead of the america's cup leaders have about a lot more. go

to support his piece of you so much the head of switzerland's football federation says it's unlikely the delayed european championships could be held across 12 cities as originally planned germany long 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 fee for club world cup is coming up in qatar next month but new zealand's all concert e.f.c.a. have pulled out because of the coroutine measures required by the new zealand all thora he's the tournament which involves all continental club champions will be played across 3 of the 2022 world cup stadiums welcomes 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 in 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 in depth mentality all that woodward being played gives the hope to people to not be steady and mentally disturbed cameron was meant to house the last cup of nations but egypt had to step in gita 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 wormy is the op. we've seen it with other countries especially with born in the quarter again when there was the death of missions on the invested millions and millions of dollars in erecting facilities which turned out to be white elephant projects in the short term cameron 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 nearly 5 years in prison mark schmidt doped dozens of athlete over 80 is many 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 and 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 chapin was placed in a medically induced coma after the accident 5 days ago he passed away while being transferred by plane from jeddah to france is the 3rd rider to die on the really into use. the new survey showed the final day of competition which saw hensel's secured a record extending victory in the car category the french driver known as mr decker has now won 14 times his 1st victory was on a motorcycle way back in 1901. australia's cricket is all off to

a solid start in the 4th test against india inbreds been there one the toss and batted on day one but did not have it in the only way 1st steve smith heavily criticized remember for appearing to remove the batsman's marks on the pitch and sydney was the 3rd batsman to fall before the hosts reached 100 but they belong to monosyllabic shane the number 3 hitting his 1st test turn he was eventually out for 108 with the australians on 274 for 5 at stumps. and england are firmly on top against sri lanka on day 2 of the 1st test this is the visitors dressing room applauding joe root of the wintery century the captain helping england to $320.00 for follow that lead of $185.00 before the rain brought an end to the day's play. the new york jets are set to appoint the 1st muslim head coach in the n.f.l. robert seiler has agreed a deal in principle to take charge of the jets you spent the past 4 seasons as

defensive coordinator of the san francisco $49.00 er's and helped them to the super bowl last 'd year with the number 2 rank defense to replace adam gaze who was fired at the beginning of the month. no james harden no problem at least that was true for the used in rockets in their 1st game since trading their star god through the brooklyn nets he stood up against the san antonio spurs on thursday after battle defeats to the l.a. lakers howard and publicly declared the team could not compete for the championship and that the situation could not be fixed or the rockets pulled off 810-9106 when they were the spirits here with christian wood contributing 27 points and 15 rebounds. now to new zealand where britain's america's cup sailing team has come roaring back into form t.v. n.e.r.c. led by a live picture a easily lost all 6 of their races in the december regarder but it was

a different story on friday when they won the opening 2 races of the challenger series there's still plenty of racing there will be overall winner of the series who were in the right face to lose even with the main america's cup in march. no as a former heavyweight boxing world champion george foreman is no stranger to jabs and this was him getting his kind of 19 vaccination in texas form and won the heavyweight title twice but perhaps is most famous for losing the rumble in the jungle fight against muhammad ali 72 now and once i was to follow getting the vaccine. the spirit shot to. the floor. to a straight right here that's got me. everything is there now you know what all of this is no. this is no big deal. out here. at all the sports news for now more coming up again later next go i will look for

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