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resigned over child care scandal that wrongly accused thousands of pounds. so the new u.s. troop levels in iraq and afghanistan have been cut to their 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 about 3000 in iraq the united states had already reduced its numbers in afghanistan from 14000 last year after a deal was made with the taliban at the height of the wall with iraq more than 125000 u.s. troops were deployed there while there were over 100000 in afghanistan in 2011 let's pick straightaway talk course one of protocol he joins us live from the pentagon and patty this was an anticipated drawdown of troops but some are concerned. it wasn't to supported but not really let me explain why

the president ordered this months ago the pentagon was moving to reduce the numbers but then just a few weeks ago congress passed over a presidential veto on a bill that said they had to keep troop levels at $4000.00 now the only way they could get around that is a presidential waiver or a study from the pentagon saying that it wouldn't impact the fight in afghanistan we believe that the president did sign a waiver but not until after the drawdown it happened so a little bit of confusion here at the pentagon about what authority they had to in fact do that if the president had in fact signed that waiver of course all of this now goes to joe biden what is he going to do in afghanistan he's indicated that he wants to leave a small force there but we also don't know if he's what how he feels about the peace talks with the taliban one of the problems is normally by now we would have had confirmation hearings for the leadership of the pentagon of the state department where they would have laid out what the plan is to but so far because of

everything that's been happening in washington none of that has happened because there are those who feel that this drawdown is asking for trouble will just leave a vacuum and that is the question really the u.s. needs to answer what its goal is is that goal just to make sure that terrorist attacks can't be launched from afghanistan that's a different number force level that you need if you want to try and make sure afghanistan is a stable country that's a much different equation so really it's going to come down to what the biden team hopes to accomplish in this very long war in afghanistan or do you think for that particularly well with uncertainty of the peace talks and an increase in violence some fear the draw back could further destabilize afghanistan as we've just been hearing for your country for you 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 see the signs 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 inside 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 ganna 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 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 but. americans must leave as 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 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. ugandan opposition leader but we whine says the military has raided his home early a claim victory in the presidential elections official figures show that the pop star turned politician trailing the incumbent year where he most of any wind has rejected the result and made claims of election irregularities and voter interference catherine so is in kampala earlier she spoke with the military deputy military spokesman who denied the poppy winds allegations were true and explained why soldiers entities. but there was a presidential candidate it is a nod to come on a person he's not a know the not a person we have to ensure that we monitor his say to detail how to make sure we ensure that he's

a safe until the declaration because all of them are still candidates and doing to working with the police we are providing the security of even a one then why didn't dampen the incidence of that happen to us talking to secure to jumping to his fans it is not a true what's happened to the city people who moved from kampala cited approaching his compound the city people when they reached under their real names to be unknown people say. they realize that if these are serious civilians and not to the security when they realize that they are security because he's a home he's also along the road and these deployments are longer those are or their deployments to ensure that as a presidential candidate also you say if they realize some people coming and reported to buckle i designed it decided to jump over their word and go inside of the way in this compound tonka go to by the vigilance of our security one of them was arrested on the 2 of them were in no way the one who has been arrested is that

the police or the cousin that the police station in the bekaa on the go and ask the district police commander there and he would probably like sister this person all the way it's going to be too early because we are already interested in knowing who are you people who are coming as guests of the when would you choose to jump all over the world instead of using the gates i water all around his premises and around that area security purposes we can't allow somebody to jump the fence because we don't know the intent but it's not true that the people who jump we are down to overuse or security personnel but it is a civilian we don't know whether you know if i was to use a guess or not but as security we took interest and arrested in this person and these we've. the police station he says that the people that the military the soldiers that jumped into his compound were actually beating up sees employees his guards that there were no strangers that jumped into the compound saw you we have

heard all types of allegations unfortunate or some from leaders and we are getting used to it and what is important for us is to make sure we put the facts to bear the person who jumped over his compound was arrested and is available for you to tell his story if you will security we will not to be saying that we know this person we could have saved him no we have not gotten to them under 2 who are right now with if we manage to get to them they will also explain it is very simple it's common sense of that if somebody of the security is the one who jumped to their definite low power to see him and he himself should have been able to see them ok thank you very much that was deputy defense boxman it was hard to versions of this story there's been a lot of back and forth a lot of accusations with bobby wine accusing security forces of using too much force on him and his supporters and security forces accusing him like officials

government officials accusing him of inciting our security forces inciting the police inciting the military. supporters attacking police as well at least 42 people are dead and 600 injured after a magnitude 6.2 earthquake hit the indonesian island of sicily ways thousands in the city is my jean and displaced and also it is warning of potential aftershocks internees your correspondent jessica washington has this report. on the indonesian island of solo 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. are 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 magine is home to just 150000 people and at least 15000 of them have now been displaced authorities warn there may be more destruction. only sees 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. 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. still ahead here on out is there are no where to hide the hong kong government's intensifying crackdown on dissent targets activists online. how scientists are injecting facts into social media to tackle misinformation about coronavirus fact. it's time for the perfect gentleman the weather sponsored point qatar airways time for more snows temps drops it again mostly it's going to hit the far north of

japan that's where the central storm is but with the breeze coming across the warmish waters you got honshu to be involved as well and for time i think part of the korean peninsula it's not the major story it's rains fairly wintry cold but not excessively so for most places but seoul shows it's light happened you get really cold at night this is below average even by day until the snow comes back on monday when yes a big plus 4 degrees is where it should be for that cold wind gives you a cold night at minus 30 now the real cold is held up in siberia thankfully for the south and daytime temperatures are on the way down i'm shanghai is pretty cold but hong kong still holds on to about 17 degrees the biggest share is next 2 days could be much the same as the last 2 days we're talking about around borneo particularly the north curling into banda study bug one we've had some pretty heavily in the south in some kind of untanned and so in a way see same areas will be affected the next 2 days i'm australian falls in the

tip of india and sri lanka the persistent fog and cold still exists in the north and across in northern pakistan as well no significant change on the way here. sponsored by qatar airways the brazilian journalist investigating a politically section of land grab all the farmers helped get also not elected and he's repay them that's empowering everyday people to profit from the destruction of the rain forest people are almost willing to give their life away to guarantee the occupation of the land says journalist in the last home in the fight steve down the sign the says not only a land conflict but a conflict a narrative brazil the age of boss in our own truth is it anyway on al-jazeera.

going to get you watch out there are mind about top stories at this hour and the u.s. says it's met its goal of reducing its number of troops in afghanistan in iraq to 2500 that's despite congress passing new measures 2 weeks ago prohibiting the move that was promised by donald trump. a powerful earthquake has hit the indonesian island it's in a way to killing at least 34 people and injuring hundreds more many buildings have been severely damaged and civil defense authorities are warning of strong aftershocks ugandan opposition leader bobby wine says the military has raided his home early a claim victory in the presidential elections official figures show the pop star turned politician trailing the incumbent you wary of any well placed said bobby wyman joins us on the phone line now from. tell us if you will as far as what you

as far as you know what's happening at your home right now. bobby wine i'm hoping that you can hit me tell us what is happening right now. surrounded by they. jumped over the fence they have taken. down. my security guy the. bad. intel and it's completely shut down my phone and my wife's phone to phone the people that i am paid. by the telecom company. that is the situation now. and when i tried to ask them. earlier we spoke to

a military official who said that their security presence outside your house is for your in benefits and they arrested somebody who was jumping over your rules so you would dispute that side of the argument would you. would certainly love to do that jump over my world. 'd around my home for the us to believe but today jumped. over the compound. we speak i can see them outside my compound. my secret to god and. 'd my god and now my wife and i i. don't know what makes is going to happen to our lives we have come into our property and invited. to the people. are you still inside you're probably you know

in your home now. the house looking outside the compound it's full of soldiers. now you say that the plane results which show the lead from was a vendee for yoweri museveni you say they are incorrect to me you have a comfortable victory how do you know that. 5 the electoral commission is also using the security approaches and the security forces that surround. channels. to relay and announce we have existing. evidence we have we. certainly by far. so many of our polling agents arrested very early on in hiding because they are being pursued by the military.

in terms of revealed startling quality products taking ballot papers for the people and look you have the people from voting and that explains why the whole internet the shut down because journalists are really bad no one as she had evidence why we have killed the people that we should have evidence as soon as the internet is restored in uganda. the authorities say you need to show that evidence are you confident it will be properly looked at. some of the lieut. are you confident that any evidence that you show the authorities that you show the electoral commission will be properly looked at. one of the people. i know that the electoral commission is not in charge of this

election because. 5 a gentleman called the commissioner general of uganda. seems to be in charge. of that in charge of the election. commission saying what he. has. asked chairman of the electoral commission to. the results that he was. able to given the source of the results. of. results can be communicated. by the chairman of the electoral commission is complete. all right but we want to. thank very much indeed that's probably why the ugandan opposition leader speaking to us from inside his home he says that

the military in the compound outside his house right now. u.s. prosecutors are alleging some rises to storm the capital last week intended to capture and assassinate elected officials court papers submitted in arizona for this man that subject of chinese meat to be arrested the member has details it of an f.b.i. investigation into him and reveals he wanted a note for u.s. vice president mike pence it's only a matter of time justice is coming chinese lawyers say he doesn't feel at fault and has asked for a presidential pardon at a fisher joins us live now from washington d.c. so well and the investigations and arrest continue apace into last week's capitol hill story just as an internal watchdog probes how the justice department prepared ahead of these riots on the capitol. that's right the inspector general in the department of justice wants to know if the information that the department of justice had was spread to all the relevant federal agencies if they got the information that they were working on you remember the f.b.i.

said after the incident at the capitol last wednesday that they were surprised they weren't expecting this to happen even though for a number of weeks on twitter and other social media platforms this sort of thing had been flagged up and not just in the dark corners right there in plain sight so no the inspector general wants to know why this happened there was some suggestion that the f.b.i. and others were worried that they would be accused of being heavy handed because they received similar criticism during the black lives matter protest but given that we're now seeing reporting that suggests that some of the mobiles that broke in to the capitol were just a minute away from being able to get access to mike pence then this clearly accelerates the need for these sort of investigations interestingly enough this isn't the 1st department of homeland security is also carrying out an investigation as is the interior department now you're saying why the interior department all the parks police were involved in defending parts of the capitol so that is why they also have these probes ongoing annoyed democratic congressmen and women will be

hoping they get the answers to this sooner rather than later to avoid any sort of repeat in the future and i'm hearing reports now the president trump is planning to leave washington on the morning of inauguration day. exactly we were told i was told yesterday by someone that is intention was to go to florida to play golf and he would leave on tuesday afternoon his intention was to be on the golf course during the inauguration know there's fresh reporting that suggests his intention is they will leave washington on the morning of the inauguration to fly to florida he will have a farewell ceremony i'm juss air force base he will make his last flight an air force one the white house not confirming any of those plans of course just a week ago there was a report that he was intending to fly to scotland where he would visit trump ton body and he would play some golf there but the scottish government said that he would not be able to arrive in scotland at the moment because of a lot don't restrictions that they have put in place because of covert so it seems

as if the president has a couple of plans going he will make his plans clear as we get closer to the day but i would suspect that the departure on wednesday morning is more likely to happen than the idea of donald trump being on the golf course just as joe biden is inaugurated as the $46.00 president of the united states we've also just checked in the last half hour to see if the president has anything planned for the rest of the day we are told that he is making calls and having meetings from elie in the morning until late at night for the benefit of the american people it's been the standard response we've had since just after the election and they are out and thanks for that unofficial washington d.c. . the dutch government has collapsed over child care subsidies go until it had a devastating impact on thousands of families the prime minister marketer and his cabinet have quit after a report blamed them for mismanaging the subsidies thousands of parents were wrongly accused of fraud some were forced into bankruptcy due to will remain in office in a caretaker capacity until elections already scheduled for march their vessel has

more now from amsterdam. 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 had the government did not protect its citizens many mistakes have been made in 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 in the next weeks 9 weeks there will be an election and prime minister marketa will run again and there were many questions about this during the press conference he held after he announced that the cabinet has resigned and 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 candle happened when the

tax office was hunting down tens of thousands of the tram elise 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 the 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 a growing number of songs as a medical expert to 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 coded vaccines many young people turn to social media and scientists who developed them of their to help often straight from the lab everyone apparently ready. this international team put together by the un

take 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 5 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. 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 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 these scientists injecting the facts into the fore and they have to stay people to see the truth. so this is out 0 these are the top stories in the u.s. says it's met its goal of reducing its number of troops in afghanistan in iraq to 2500 that's despite congress passing new measures 2 weeks ago prohibiting the move that was promised by donald trump but ago has more now from the pentagon the president ordered this months ago the pentagon was moving to reduce the numbers but then just a few weeks ago congress passed it over a presidential veto on a bill that said they had to keep troop levels at $4000.00 now the only way they could get around that is a presidential waiver or a study.