they are often legitimize them grieger wise pedophiles are narrow online jumping to the critics and the last discussion this stream on out is they are. soldiers and barriers around the u.s. capitol building washington and other cities are countering the threats of violence to joe biden's inauguration. slogan i am peter sagal you're watching al-jazeera live from there also coming up kremlin critic alexina pawning heads home to russia for examinee where he spent 5 months recovering your feet. on the run hundreds flee west off or after tribal fighting kills dozens of people. and the indian farmers producing

power from old school saving money and helping to clear the. the center of the u.s. capitol resembles a fortress 3 days before president elect joe biden is sworn into office a militarized green zone has been established and 25000 national guard troops deployed to washington d.c. potentially armed protests are expected elsewhere in the u.s. on sunday in support of baseless claims that donald trump won the election he didn't live now to the white house and our correspondent there alan fischer so allan was saying tight security in effect 50 capitals in 50 states but give us a sense of how tight is tight. well i've never seen anything like this in washington d.c. you've got to remember no the president says 975 hours away from ending it will be mid day on wednesday that joe biden or become president among and i'm president and

security operation secret service always takes the lead in operations like this 'd but there is law enforcement from all 'd 'd federal organizations and washington d.c. and of course 23rd is national guardsmen with the ability to call up 5000 more people at the emergency management agency and they've also staged ambulances and food and drink at various points in washington d.c. and just outside with the intention of being able to call 'd anything up if there is any problem today or on wednesday night there had been calls on the internet for big protests in washington on sunday security services seem to think that that may well have gone away or certainly ed away not the numbers that they were expecting simply because people would have looked at the coverage of the huge presence here in washington d.c. and just decided simply wasn't what they're also they won't get near to the locations that they want because not only is the capitol closed down here in

washington near the white house it's closed down here for several blocks it is getting better just today my personal experience getting in it's a lot more organized than it was on wednesday and thursday when they 1st put the banners up the barriers up people seem to know where they need to be where the security checkpoints are which roads are open which roads aren't so it is getting better the big what of course was the state capitals because it was also meant to be protests there and just looking through some of the local t.v. coverage over the last hour it seems that right across the board every single organization state organization local police departments they've all beefed up their presence at the state capitals just in case there's any problems either today or inauguration day self the incoming administration allan asked people to stay away anyway because of covert 19 folding them together with the reality of the reason behind the security lock it's going to look like no other inauguration that

we have seen before. going to markedly different simply because a lot of it is going to be virtual is going to be large parts of the mall are going to be closed you remember 8 years ago when barack obama had his 2nd inauguration there were still 3 quarters of a 1000000 people on the mall in what was better only call day weather forecast not going to be that called on wednesday but this there won't be many people are in door trouble of course will be able to say that joe biden's inauguration crowd was much smaller than his that will be absolutely right he is planning to leave from andrews air force base just outside washington d.c. on wednesday just before the inauguration made it clear he will not be attending he's actually organizing a small military ceremony which could include a jet 5 past and he's hoping a $21.00 gun salute as for joe biden when he gets into the oval office he's got a plan he says he's going to sign a number of executive orders straight away one of the farce will be to put america back into the paris climate dream and there will also be an executive order

overturning donald trump's ban on people traveling from countries where the the muslim population is in the majority and also there will be action to on corporate including a number of economic executive orders he's determined to hit the ground running he wants his 1st 100 days to be a success but he also wants they want to send a signal to many things unofficial our correspondent there reporting live at the white house let's take you to the latest pictures coming to us out of germany the berlin airport where the russian opposition to the election about me is now officially on his way home from germany to russia where he spent the past 5 months recovering from a nerve agent poisoning the fierce critic of the kremlin is returning even though russian authorities say they will put him back behind bars novell need to use blame just poisoning on the russian government says president vladimir putin is trying to deter his return with legal maneuverings the kremlin has denied any role in the attempted assassination will stay with those latest. we'll bring in our

correspondents alexandra go for is in moscow we'll talk to her in just a moment 1st dominic cain joins us from berlin so just looking at those pictures pictures dom 0 social distancing onboard the aircraft but everyone is wearing a mask so that's a plus assuming he doesn't get detained do we know what mr novell the is expecting missed in a volley will do when he gets off the plane. well the point that mr advani was quite clear in making money announce to the world that he intended to fly back to moscow was that nothing could prevent him from going back that he always knew in his heart of hearts that he was going to go back to moscow once he got to a position with russia or at least once he felt able to do so that was his firm intention and he has as we know been a staunch critic of the government of president vladimir putin for some considerable time the point also is that he's leaving germany but in so doing

he knows that the german government is saying that it has furnished its russian counterpart the or thora tease in russia with copious amounts of evidence given by mr vanney in the form of interviews that he gave to the german authorities about what has happened to him so they've passed that on to their russian counterparts but also passed on items of his clothing and blood samples from mr ali and they've said and remember this is something that the german authorities have been repeating ever since mr vanney came to germany back in august in a coma in a specially chartered flight they've said that this is a crime in their words that needs to be solved in russia they want an independent end of investigation and prosecution if necessary to bring whoever course this to happen to mr novell me to be brought to justice but quite how that will happen given what we know has been said by all fora tease in russia about what they intend to do with mr vonnie when he arrives well that's another question entirely.

dominick thanks very much live to moscow and our correspondent there alexandra go for so alexandra he's looking a lot better than he did 4 months ago and 3 months ago and 2 months ago as well i guess and he can now become even if he is behind bars a focal point for those critics those other critics in the country of mr putin. yes yes indeed i mean the not only that he's looking far much better he says that he feels that he is well enough to return and continue his. action in in russia he also is apparently not afraid and actually wants to show that he cannot be scared off by trent so that he will be put in a jail for quite a while by some new charges that there have been both these moves of the violin is seen as a brave move here in russia is seen as the next police it's challenge through the

authorities indeed he wants to continue his political career here in russia he's a positional victim in the end he has to be in the russia for dead even if he ends up in prison serving there to suspend the sentence on the other hand russia has to do they recognize that they did receive material from from germany although all the things that have been said but the spokesperson for the russian foreign minister said they don't see anything essential in it so they keep on denying that there was no crime to investigate or answer and the whilst they've been past months saying that germany is not providing was answers germany is not providing us with evidence is not once these evidences are sends to russia they're saying 'd there is nothing in them that answers their questions. if we are to judge by debts the future of another violent is not looking a very bright but he's more does inspire the opposition here in

a rush to keep on fighting alexandra thank you very much alexandra goforth our correspondent in moscow. fighting in sudan's region of darfur has left at least 48 people dead according to state media buildings have also been burned and westover for state capital janina pictures posted online shows some of the people who are getting away fleeing the violence so too the gun over disputes between different tribes local civil society organizations says armed groups took advantage of coring and escalated it morgan has more from the sudanese capital khartoum. but what's happened yesterday is 2 different incidents unfolded in the capital of a start for engineering now where clashes or conflicts between 2 opposing tribes members of 2 opposing tribes led to a fight that eventually increasing the number of people involved now at the same

time and simultaneously there was an attack on a displacement camp and up to her since then up to this morning asked her state of florida keys are fighting has been ongoing between those 2 tribes and people have been this place especially people in this place one camp in and around the capital of 4 star for now what authorities have done is that they have imposed a curfew that started this and that will be going on and till further notice asper the governor of was there for and they have authorized the security forces and organized forces to use force if deemed necessary to be able to prevent people from fighting further but this has not stopped that order was given yesterday by the governor to the to the security forces and they were going to ask for says but up until this morning asper state authorities fighting have been ongoing so they say that that made it very hard to make sure that the number of those that is indeed 48 and they said that death toll toll could be higher. u.n. peacekeepers say they've retaken the central african republic city of benghazi to

it was captured earlier this month by rebel forces demanding that the government resigns a coalition of armed groups launched an offensive last month to prevent the reelection of president forced into a bear up he has declared the winner but the rebels and political opposition well they dispute that result at least 60000 people have now fled the fighting. still to come on this program we're going to below are mexico's going to pay for the art bulla back and president donald trump's contentious border policy is what was promised what was actually delivered. more gloom for businesses in italy the national lockdown is extended adding to the crippling affects of coronavirus.

the windies on the turn will get particularly warm but warmer that westerly wind across the l.s.e. means snow for south korea and then yet more snow for honshu and her current or the temps have come a bit so that's sort of increases the avalanche risk but they'll go back down to subzero facade on tuesday it's minus 16 that is a source of all this cold air well the real source is just the north most of china's enjoying the sunshine coolish days cold nights of course those clear skies the big showers recently have been around northern soloway see the forecast will still bring them in this sort of area maybe a bit further north node borneo in the central philippines and a line that covers java and all eyes to the east for the next day or so. there's a bit of a move into the atmosphere over what has been an exceedingly foggy weather in the northern plains of india and a good part of pakistan they may not see it on here nor will you see many showers

in india just a few dancer lanka but the wind is picking up so when you've got ready poor air quality in for example new delhi well monday into tuesday it's still pretty poor with fog for most of the time but on wednesday the wind gets up everything improves . when all that seems to matter is the headline and always 2 sides to a story when narratives and counter narratives obscure reality they lay there on the one hand the enemy is open neither on the other hand the listening post drips away the spin what kind of reporting if you can see on the ground misinformation is right place better the bias a lot of people believe things because they want to believe them and uncovers the uncomfortable truths do you think they did enough to scrutinize the case for war listening post on a 0. you're

watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour the u.s. capitol is in love with unprecedented security ahead of the inauguration of joe biden a military green zone has been established $25000.00 troops of. the russian opposition leader alexina belding is on his way home despite threats to be arrested he's just bored and just plain. taxing takeoffs spent 5 months in germany covering being poised. and fighting in sudan's west or for region has left these 14 people dead of winter state media people that being the area of the violence broke out the dispute between different trials. but when donald trump took office he said

he would stop and u.s. immigration policy he believed was weak and unfair to americans and the u.s. border with mexico became his biggest focus al-jazeera as heidegger castro takes a look at his legacy their. own racist description of mexican immigrants marked donald trump's for magic entrance to the presidential race in 2016 they are bringing drugs they're bringing rhyme they're rapists he then back out to build a border wall regular below mexico's going to pay for the low helping to attract a base of mostly white working class supporters whose fears of america's growing diversity contributed to trump's win from this day forward it's going to be only america 1st american 1st the wall trump built though fell far short of what he promised these prototypes never advanced past the testing pace instead trump built 730 kilometers of fencing mostly to

replace older sections and mexico didn't pay a penny of the $15000000000.00 price tag that money is coming from american taxpayers after trying to shut down the government for $35.00 days then declared a national emergency to commandeer some of the funding. still in the final days of his presidency trump returned to his so-called wall to tout it as a win and i think when you see what it does and how it's so important for a country nobody's going to be touching it border arrests plunged during trump's 1st 3 months in office but then caravans of migrant families began traveling north from central america claiming to plead gang violence by the summer of trump's 2nd year in the white house unauthorized border crossings reached a 13 year high of more than $130000.00 a month it was in the midst of that surge that came trump's family separation policy that are agents took more than 4000 children from their parents at the

border a practice that drew widespread condemnation and a judge quickly ordered the policy to end saying children were suffering irreparable harm and must be returned to their families but even today some 500 kids remain separated in its haste to do trumps will the u.s. government have lost track of their parents it's not as if the u.s. government collected mailing address that was for them when they deported them we really don't know where they are which is why there's more than 500 families who are still. in other controversial border policy trumps treatment of asylum seekers in 29000 the u.s. government stopped giving them conditional entrance into the country now some 60000 asylum seekers have been forced to wait in mexico for a turn to see a u.s. judge that coupled with new code restrictions slowed unauthorized border crossings

to a trickle last spring but now the numbers are rising a new it's likely that people are have renewed hope for how the southern border will operate with a new and incoming president trying to legacy on immigration is still to be determined by the u.s. supreme court which dealt him of low when i had ruled earlier that an obama era program pretty. young undocumented immigrants could remain now a new panel of justices including 3 trump appointees in the coming months will hear challenges to trump's border policies how do you know castro al-jazeera washington . to afghan judges have been shot dead in kabul the women were in a car on their way to work when they were fired on it's the latest in a recent wave of attacks and assassinations. has more from kabul what happened this morning here in kabul falls into a pattern that has become all too familiar across afghanistan and especially here

in kabul government employees civil servants activists and journalists getting either gunned down or having their cars blown up all the way to work it's been happening for months now and it seems like it's getting worse every day this 2 female judges were gunned down all the way to work this morning some more people were injured and according to human rights watch afghanistan right now has 200 female judges what happened this morning means that within seconds within minutes one percent of afghanistan's all feel mile judges where wiped out now most of these targeted assassinations remain unclaimed i saw has claimed some of them but the government keeps insisting that the taliban are behind them the taliban keeps denying responsibility so * there is this pattern of a blame game about who is responsible the minister of interior has been doing some arrests but there's this issue of impunity because this is where their work starts

and stops and that is what happens to the judges still a system will this people ever face justice and so that's something that has not been happening and this this culture of impunity is what people say here encourages even more this targeted assassinations that have been taking place. u.s. and taliban negotiators have met in doha for talks on implementing the deal they agreed to last year the taliban wants the u.s. to on a commitments on releasing prisoners and removing its leaders from a blacklist meanwhile the u.s. wants an end to violence in afghanistan and is pushing for a peace settlement between the taliban and the afghan government. has been a 2nd lines of protests in tunisia and cities despite a government imposed lockdown a video showing a police officer abusing a shepherd has drawn comparisons to the incident 10 years ago that led to the arab spring uprisings his andrew chapelle. a man is humiliated in the street by a police officer whose shepherd is being reprimanded and pushed apparently because

his sheep got too close to the local government headquarters. and. the video has led to protests but also include the state of the economy joblessness and police violence. they came a decade after a street vendor set himself on fire in protest over the same issues an event that became a catalyst for the 2011 revolution in tunisia and the arab spring. earlier in the day prime minister his mrs she had reshuffle the cabinet and told new ministers to carry out reforms including new ministers of health interior justice and energy it had to fit a city with the who had the the aim of this reshuffle is to achieve greater efficiency in the work of the government's policy and plans what then few would but the. many view the timing as important thursday was the anniversary of the downfall of president seen a lot of denali who was forced out in a popular revolution that's what the region but with demonstrations banned because

of the coronavirus there were no commemorations on the streets. and the 6 cities protestors defied those orders and confrontations with police officers protesters across the country once again being heard in the capitol. hill al-jazeera. italy is facing a political crisis at a critical moment in its fight against coronavirus the prime minister. is scrambling to find enough allies to survive confidence votes meanwhile lockdown rules are being extended meaning more misery for businesses sinking into debt stephanie decker reports from rome. through most of the last challenging year mark was that fatty has kept his family run tie shop open now he says it wasn't worth it something like a tragedy i don't want to be catastrophic but i have. thousands

of euros and with the bank with my parents who help me. room is a city that is heavily dependent on tourism and so is the world stop travelling gigia coronavirus the once bustling in vibrant italian capital has ground to a halt to have these world famous sites almost all to yourself would have been unthinkable simply played possible year ago and even though it may be a privilege to be the fairy fountain without the usual hordes a tourist this unprecedented and tells the story just how desperate the economic situation here has become such a vaccination campaign is underway and the government says at least 1000000 people have already been inoculated it's giving some hope but most people say they know it's not a quick fix italy is one of the worst off countries on both counts the number of

their earth and the economic impact what we do know is that the economic effect of all this is going to be very tough and that is going to get out will be. almost unmanageable public that there. a certainty. what is uncertain is this country's political future ziplock on to the prime minister is facing 2 votes of confidence early this week after one of his coalition parties pulled its ministers out of his cabinet it could lead to a political crisis at a time when the country needs at least. lockdown measures recently been extended meaning restaurants and bars need to remain shut and a nighttime curfew extended for at least another month. italy is defined by a food and wine culture and restaurant owners are desperate i feel like 11th hour ago. so nothing is changes. nothing nothing some time i

feel like a stupid because i say i spend the 20 earth here why why yes pain the 20 year thing here is it possible one view also stop my life like so many other italians tibet is left worried about mounting debts continued restrictions and no idea when it will end stephanie decker rome emergency supplies of oxygen and respirators have been flown to the brazilian amazon where hospitals are overwhelmed by cases of cope with 19 people in the state capital now sitting queuing in the streets to buy oxygen trying to help critically sick loved ones to new coronavirus variants are spreading rapidly across the city the military's been taking some patients to other states where hospitals are better equipped brazil has delayed emergency use of the russian vaccine sputnik v.a.

the health regulator says it needs more information about clinical trials and potential manufacturing issues but argentina is vaccinating with sputnik 3 and occupations began last month when the 1st 300000 doses arrived argentina has now received its 2nd batch. the burning of leftover straw from harvest season in northern india has long been a big contributor to air pollution efforts to stop it have consistently failed because farmers say there's no other way to clear their land well some and have found a way and they're producing electricity in the process elizabeth purana reports from. a novel way to produce electricity in punjab leftover straw from some of the state's paddy fields is being burnt to generate power for a 50 acre industrial area. could have got the owner says he began looking for cheaper and more environmentally friendly alternatives to power

has factories when petrol prices peaked in 2030 this is a power grab. used a 100 percent on the biggest fall here what we're doing is we're modeling this apprentice for another form and now we are generating hybrids history and regardless of who we are going to be our. pays farmers to collect paddy stroll for the factory is no shortage of it in the state which is one of india's biggest rice produces about 60 people were employed by saying over the one month of the season last year when 5000000 kilos of straw was connected from 500 farmers. before this we used to burn the house but since these machines and this opportunity opened up we have managed to reduce pollution and by selling the house we also make a profit. as well as converting the leftover straw to cleaner and atrocity some also selling it to companies which make cardboard out of it around punjab farmers

and others are finding ways to recycle crop stubble instead of burning it in the fields that causes air pollution to rise to hazardous levels for hundreds of kilometers. india's government began imposing fines on farmers for burning stubble and 2015 that removed them last month after protests say they shouldn't be paralyzed when they don't have alternatives to clear their land in time for the one to selling season the government office farmers just over $1.00 for every $100.00 kilos of stubble they collect and daunte but experts say most farmers don't have the expensive machines needed to gather the waste so it is the lack of attention of the government and the scientific community to provide a possible solution to yours and this raised as a useful kind of ducked will develop electricity plants the 2nd is that they

have been. developed manufacturing blondin. says he saved around a $1000000.00 a year on power since using paddy straw to fuel his factories he also paid leave saying 27000 dollars last year for the straw in what they both say is a win win situation for farmers industries and the environment elizabeth brannon al-jazeera punjab. this is al-jazeera these are your top stories the u.s. capitol is in lockdown with unprecedented security ahead of the inauguration of joe biden a military green zone has been established and 25000 national guard troops are now being deployed ellen fisher has more now from the white house the big worry of course was the state capitals because they were also meant to be quote there and just looking through some of the.