stay not bad at all for a good part of the country by this stage as the snow showers gradually start to peter out they'll be more the way a crisp subside coming in behind that sunshine stretches across the korean peninsula and a good part of northern china but showers for the east. 'd al-jazeera. and i aren't a this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london coming up an independent panel questions the w.h.o. his response to the coronavirus outbreak describing the global alert system as not fit for purpose. the images from china tried to censor and al-jazeera investigation

raises questions about beijing's response in the 1st days of the coronavirus outbreak. security checks on the security forces guarding the u.s. presidential inauguration the f.b.i. looks into the backgrounds of thousands of personnel. international condemnation following an extent of omni's arrest the kremlin critic has been remanded in prison for 30 days. and then sport tennis players have been told not to expect any special treatment ahead of the australian open it comes as more competitors are put into strict quarantine the head of the year's 1st grand slam event. the world health organization has been called into question over its failure to declare a global pandemic until march 2020. an interim report by the independent panel

established by the w.h.o. to look into the u.n. agencies response described the global alert system as not fit for purpose cases of what became known as code 19 were 1st reported in hand in december 29 teen but an emergency committee did not meet until 3 weeks later and failed to declare a global health emergency until the end of january when asked to respond to the findings the w.h.o. said it would be premature to comment on the panel's interim report before it's been discussed by the member states. director general put together this panel but it is independent and we would refer questions to them al-jazeera has obtained video recorded in the chinese city of on in the 1st days of the corona virus outbreak images have been smuggled out of china after police tried to prevent journalists reporting on a local health crisis that became the global pandemic they raised questions about

beijing's early efforts to control a virus the race has this exclusive report. a year ago journalists from chinese state media arrived in grew han to cover a story about a mysterious new virus it's 3 days before the city goes into lockdown. the few confirmed cases of the disease are up to seafood market says and i just don't know if we have concealed the journalists like entities for their own safety they soon realize the outbreak is much more serious and they fought. for our all over a reporter who we've called yang continues to film secretly after being detained by the police he was reasonable called to the world your employer all of them was a model called out of the 20200 or so to pull it out of the hollow when a volunteer or learned things are going to go. yang is forced to show images on his camera to public security officers while doing so he continues to film on his phone

. or knew very well china's response to the virus was late to praise the lack of openness at the beginning of the outbreak has been blamed for contributing to a failure to contain the disease 10 out of. the gang is blocked from entering hospitals to see if there was going to be indeed incomplete or even when it's really. altered in order to enter yang pretends to have a fever if you. have a heart. he finds packed wards with patients waiting to get tested. this was just one week after the disease had been given a name 19 and on here are you a woman brought her simply 8 year old grandfather to the gates of the hospital he'd already been turned away from one that had no more beds i think i think a family on the guards wouldn't let him in the job you got. to

go to the government. offices stop young filming even at the hospital gates or anything as you would have been going on the lockdown is announced at 2 am on january 23rd yang is told to return to beijing before it comes into force the next morning the roads to the airport and railway station are packed with taxis yang joins 300000 people who left will hand that night the decision to provide an 8 hour window before the city is sealed off allows many infected patients to free rooms and for the outside world. still race al-jazeera. earlier the w.h.o. warns the world is on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure as wealthier countries continue to hold huge numbers of coronavirus vaccines to just add an arm says the u.n. health bodies kovacs scheme is at serious risk because of limited supplies of

vaccines the program is due to start distributing them to poorer nations next month but that could now be delayed more than $39000000.00 those of vaccine have now been . in at least 49 higher income countries just 25 daughters have been given in one lowest income country not 25000000 not 25000 just 25 i need to be blunt the world is on the brink of a catastrophe moral failure and the prize of this failure will be paid with lives and livelihoods in the world's poorest countries or the need for vaccines has become more urgent since the discovery of virus variants but much of the immunization has so far happened in richer countries

the u.k. says it's vaccinating on average $140.00 people per minute more than $4000000.00 britons have received their 1st dose incoming u.s. president joe biden has promised $100000000.00 vaccinations in his 1st $100.00 days in office 3.7 percent of the population is currently vaccinated canada has ordered the most vaccines per capita with nearly 9 doses per person but it's only managed to inoculate 1.2 percent of its population because manufacturers aren't able to produce jobs fast enough only 53 out of 193 countries have started rolling out jobs with 40070000 given out to date. in particular that is a cable house specialist and director of the skull center fest social entrepreneurship at the university of oxford he joins us of a skype thanks very much for being with us and i want to come back to the issue of vaccine distribution a moment of us want to ask you about that the panel that's criticised in its interim report to the dump his response and talked about as they claim pandemic

system not being fit for purpose what would you make of that criticism. i think there's some important recommendations there it clearly pointed out that there have been failures across the board that the world was not prepared and frankly i think a lot of us who would probably agree with some of the recommendations including that w.h.o. is underpowered to do the job that we needed to do in an age of pendennis people misunderstand what tell you which shows rule and mandate is it's a normative body that can make recommendations offer guidance and coordination but it has no operational power in no authority to force countries to do things in so in an age and to mix threats we really need to rethink having a more muscular and better resourced of the rich oh and in terms of what the definition is saying today about the lack of distribution of vaccines to poorer countries and that that's actually at serious risk now what would you make of that . yeah i appreciate the strong moral clarity coming from dr tetras today and i

think he's right so if if we were to distribute all the vaccines equitably around the world according to the people who need them the most the most vulnerable we could save twice as many lives as doing it the way we're doing it now which is allowing wealthy countries to purchase up all the vaccines and prioritize their own populations 1st that's not only you know kind of morally questionable it's going to cost a lot of lives but it's also shortsighted because we cannot control the pandemic in one part of the world and expect to be safe while it's raging uncontrolled in other parts of the world this is going to prolong the entire pandemic it's going to mean longer restrictions and think about what's happened the last couple of months we left the pen to make raids here in the u.k. what did we end up with a more contagious new variant that's now sweeping the world we need to control this virus everywhere or we risk future variance in future threats that could even compromise the efficacy of these vaccines so what is the main because i mean

a lot of countries have talked about who have pledged in fact money for the vaccine in all the countries and in poorer countries what are the blogs why then as it's not materialized yet. yes and one of the issues right now is that as the some of these 1st vaccines have been improved a bunch of wealthier countries have rushed to make further bilateral agreements with drug companies often at higher prices to kind of jump the queue and make sure they can have access to vaccines as quickly as possible the scale of manufacture is such a fast challenge that what risks happening is that when kovacs is ready to start distributing back scenes around the world there are going to be supply shortages as a result so you know wealthy countries have bait important pledges including pledges of resources but look canada has pre-purchased enough vaccines to cover its entire population 5 times over just so they can bet right bet right on the 1st ones i just don't see how that's an acceptable approach so i don't have that and the

tension as we've seen is on this run out of vaccines i mean at how much of the the what is the kind of risk and time to the new variants and whether they can kind of catch up with what people are trying to run out in the meantime it you know we need to be really concerned about these new variants in particular because of how contagious there are it's really hit us hard here in the u.k. we're very worried about seeing it in the u.s. and elsewhere to date with the new variants there is no evidence that the new vaccines will not be effective in fact it appears there will be but fish should be a huge red flag and a huge warning sign for us the more the virus is circulating and the more the virus is replicating the more opportunities there are for mutations and over time those mutations will build up and could make us more vulnerable to viruses that aren't you know impervious to these facts seems so what we need to do is really strengthen our resolve to double down on that control measures to slow the spread of the virus

whilst we accelerate vaccinations quickly as possible because you have actually very much indeed for taking time to talk to us thank you. and brazil has been begun rolling out the chinese made corona virus vaccine to try to bring the world's 2nd deadliest outbreak under control 6000000 doses are being distributed to states with health workers 1st in line to receive the jobs brazil's immunization program has been held up by shipment delays and political disputes but both son of ak and the oxford astra zeneca vaccines were approved by the country's health regulator on sunday the start of the rollout has brought some hope to brazil but to discourage not enough vaccine doses for everyone who needs them local son of a manufacturer say they need more active ingredients from china to hit production targets while the oxford astra zeneca jobs have yet to arrive in the country staff some in the most remote parts of brazil fearing they won't survive the wait on it do you knock you if reports from allow us the gateway to the amazon rain forest.

after months of political infighting the 1st brazilian was vaccinated today and some followed. but the round of applause in brazil's richest city was a far cry from the reality of my mouse more than 3000 kilometers in the capital of the amazon a state a new strain of the corona virus is still spreading infections like wildfire. many here barely make it to a hospital and those who do have few guarantees they'll get out alive nearly 48 this just us the 3rd person in her family only then will i cannot understand how the government let me now switch the spline they're killing us the strong our family my brother in law died because there was a shortage of oxygen we bought a cylinder but it was too late. not far from the hospital others are racing against

time. these men have spent the morning rushing from one oxygen supply or 20 other to fill up their metal cylinders the federal government brazilian states and even neighboring venezuela have sent supplies to my mouse but it hasn't been enough. has been standing in line for his uncle who suffocating in the hospital in one week he had to cardiac arrests. it's ironic everybody says the amazon rain forest is the world's grain lung and yet people here are dying from lack of oxygen which is like a war zone and the port of my mouse time seems to have stopped instead of oxygen cylinders bananas are unloaded from the boat to be sold on the market. but the river which could be a lifeline is also an obstacle to fighting the pandemic minerals is the gateway to

the amazon forest it's surrounded by water which makes the logistics of bringing anything here like up suggests cylinders or vaccines very difficult you can reach the capital of the amazon a state by plane or by boat but there's some of the edges here behind me which are hours and hours away by boat and that's the only means that you can reach them and not every boat like this one is strong enough to carry supplies. here the vaccines which will be distributed throughout brazil are still a promise for the future in the meantime people are just trying to survive monica and not give. my mouse. coming up a notch there this news hour uganda's opposition leader says he's been confined to his home as his pa to gets ready to challenge the weekend's election results. autistics and gas were used to prevent question mahlum reiger and street crossing

into mexico security forces stopped clearing the caravan. and sport we'll hear from the skipper of the thought his team has been due to win the america's cup was about to sink without a trace. security in washington d.c. has been ramped up 2 days before joe biden's inauguration as u.s. president and seen as never before seen in the capital the national mall hugely packed with tourists now resembles a heavily militarized zone just 2 weeks ago the steps of the capitol were overrun by rotches now it's completely closed to the public earliest offer moved out of the capital building after smoke was seen close by there was found to be a fire at a nearby camp for the homeless. biden's inauguration will be held on wednesday right outside the capitol building already officials are asking the public not to

go on to the joule threat of further unrest and covert 19 the capitol building in nearby areas a part of a red zone that will be completely shut to almost all vehicles most of this area has been fenced off just beyond that is a green zone it's still open to residents and cars used by local businesses but close to everyone else this is where vehicle checkpoints have been set up to screen entry into the red zone speak to john hendren in washington d.c. so with all that in place what's the mood like in in d.c. at the moment. well here we are in fortress washington this is the great wall that has been built donald trump went into office promising to build a wall but this is not the one he was talking about on his way out the city of washington is erected one around the center of most of this city's so that is the national mall in the distance and along here is pennsylvania avenue which runs from

congress to the white house that's the national archives it's the department of justice behind us now yesterday that was a zone that once you went through security all of us could go in anybody and we did yesterday well today those rules have changed they're more strict and we can't go inside there as we did yesterday and you had that little scare at the capitol where a fire had people shut down had people evacuating a rehearsal for the inauguration but you can see here in the green zone there are shops not a lot of people here you've got one that's got nice heating lamps and so people who have shown up there they're making the best of it but most of downtown washington now is empty and that's because of the heavy security $25000.00 national guard officers thousands and thousands more local state and federal police all out here there's really almost no opportunity to attack the capitol or the inauguration

unless you have someone inside there in the security zone and that is why all 25000 national guard officers are being vetted they are being they're being examined verbal e. and through paperwork they're looking for any ties to somebody on the outside who might be an outside agitator who wants to attack and that comes from intelligence that has reached the f.b.i. and other intelligence agencies so that is really ramped up the alert on security that scare early. there which happen to be a fire which was completely unrelated at a homeless camp and it just happen to be not far from the capitol all of those things have people very ramped up here security is very tight and it's likely only to get tighter john hendren thank you very much indeed. for joining us from the city of pittsburgh by colin peacock he's director of policy research at the security strategy center the soufan group thank you very much for being with us

just initially on that issue that risk of an insider attack for you and that was it was potentially a risk how much more of a risk is it nowadays yeah it's always been a risk as you mentioned but i think now you know as tensions are heightened where correctly paying a lot more tension to the possibility of a lot more attention to the possibility that yes somebody within the national guard or somebody within law enforcement of the military could very well be one of the individuals poised to strike at the inauguration and how realistic is it to vet all $20000.00 national guard soldiers who are involved in the security operation it's a herculean effort to be sure especially in such a short period of time so one wonders you know how extensive the vetting can be to me it seems probably more like a cursory investigation you know but keep in mind all these individuals purportedly were vetted upon entry into the national guard so they would likely have their

tattoos screened to look for any kind of white supremacist or neo nazi type insignias they've likely had their social media scrubbed as well and tell me about those those kind of groups that you knew to the right wing groups how how much are they embedded in mainstream womanize ation is such a law enforcement tool or the military abbi how big do you see that infiltration. yeah well the oath keepers in particular is comprised of a majority of former military former law enforcement and that's just you know one of many groups you've also also got the 3 percent and we know in fact a lot of research from the soufan center that's looked at a violent white supremacists that's looked at me and nazis has found a number of combat veterans from iraq and afghanistan and among those groups you know we saw those at an annual no b. day which normally draws up thousands of people in for instance on kind of pro gun rights and that kind of ticket and today i understand that there were any sort of

at 500 say people that deported what you make of the fact that not many people turned up is that's what you interpret ation of that well i think it's indicative of the fact that the f.b.i. has really been clamping down and making arrests right for a long time these people have acted with impunity and there's been little accountability that's changed it's had to change it's a long time coming and then i think the other thing is probably a deliberate effort upon elements of the leadership to tell these groups to kind of wait you know wait in the wings because we're not at the end of something right now we're at the beginning you say waiting in the wings how dangerous do you think it was potentially to shut people out of mainstream social media platforms and could that actually backfire and end up pushing them further underground and less easy to monitor. well it's a trade off certainly right so in in the short run you're removing these people and their violent content from more main street platforms but you're trading that for

the fact that you're exactly right we lose oversight on what i would call you know open source intelligence or osa and i think in the long run it's generally a good thing that broader swath of the american population you know aren't seeing these messages aren't seeing the dissent from ation the vitriol and that those individuals are kind of pushed to these fringe sites so it is a bit of a double edged sword but i think on balance it's a good thing how much of a problem is there with that with people who don't necessarily think themselves to come extreme groups feeling that the government is somehow in egypt and the fact that hasn't necessarily been repeated by and large section of say the republican party it's a huge problem i wrote a piece in the l a times in late november talking about exactly that how at of all the issues involved around the election the fact that president trump continues to label the by the administration is illegitimate and that's something that his followers and

his supporters largely buy into that's sowing the seeds for the potential for political violence not just in the days and weeks ahead but in the months and years ahead couldn't count thank you very much indeed jeff you know this is thank you keith. russian opposition leader alexei navalny has been detained in a moscow prison for 30 days a crime and critic was arrested as he arrived home for the 1st time since being poisoned last year the u.n. and western nations are demanding of on the immediate release and there are calls for a new sanctions against russia challenging a report. outside of moscow police station protesters demand alexina valley's release inside the kremlin chief critic found himself in front of a judge in a hastily convened court and urged his supporters to take to the streets against vladimir putin. what is this toad sitting on

a pipeline most afraid of what are these thieves from the bunker most afraid of you know the answer people protesting on the streets because that is the thing the political factor that cannot be ignored it's the most important thing the essence of politics so don't be afraid go out on the streets not for me but for yourselves and your future novelli was detained on arrival from berlin on sunday arrested for breaking parole on a suspended sentence the reason he missed his parole hearing is because he was in a coma after being poisoned with the nova chalk nerve agent doctors say he should still be resting in recovering from the attack which many countries believe was sanctioned by the kremlin outside the police station his lawyers and journalists were denied entry into the impromptu court city but stars behind that those 2 actually i did not understand why the hearing is taking place at a police station why was no one informed or notified i have seen

a lot of times the mockery of justice but it looks like the old man in his bunker was so scared of everything that the criminal procedures codes have been blatantly torn up and thrown out what's happening here is just impossible this is the highest degree of lawlessness. germany the u.k. and the u.s. have all demanded his immediate release story. of russia through its own constitution and its international obligations is tied to the principles of rule of law and the protection of civic rights which obviously also goes for mr valma these principles must be applied which for all those means nothing else but to immediately release mr not only us but russia's foreign minister has scoffed at the reaction from the west and says a values detention is a legal solution is no one on the case of his game foreign political resonance artificially and baselessly everything is happening to nirvana in connection with his returning detention falls within the competence of the law enforcement forces

the. novelli will now be held for 30 days he says he's not afraid because truth is on his side in this important election year for putin truth might not be enough to set him free charlie engine or al jazeera. uganda's opposition party says it will challenge the presidential election results in court president yoweri museveni has won a 6th term in office but his main opponent pop star turned politician bobby wind has dismissed the outcome as fraudulent earlier he tweeted heavily armed military and police have once again raided our party offices in kampala no one allowed to go in or come out for 70 after committing the most vile election fraud in history goes on as resorted to the most despicable forms of intimidation catherine story reports from kampala. and you know to my i can barely walk without support.

the campaign coordinator of uganda's opposition leader bobby wine says he was beaten and tortured by police they put something. that. i had been connected. by for him to have what do i was shocked. he's allegations come after uganda's long time president you're wearing was 70 was handed a 6th time in office on saturday extending his rule to 40 years his rival bobby wine remains at home tightly guarded by soldiers outside the lines party the national unity platform say he's under house arrest but they're determined to challenge the outcome of thursday's vote we are here to formally country but. reject the announced results of the provision election. results announced yesterday by the e.c. do not in any way relate to the privilege spitted party president with 70

insists the vote was free despite a crackdown on opposition candidates and internet shutdown and a growing international concern about the validity of the election returning back to normal in kampala and most of the country people we talked to him to get back to work but they all for one need to call dispute resolved soon and restrictions on bobby weinmann if there is only hope for the 1st. piece of the country but those prayers may not be easily answered the 76 year old president faces an on the tired opposition bolstered by young ugandans who say they're fed up with high levels of unemployment corruption now growing increasingly impatient with the old political order catherine soy al jazeera kampala. still to come when i was there this news hour but it's great head of a tech giant jailed samsung's boss brought down in

a corruption scandal. scotland's renewed push for independence by breaks it makes it more attractive at least economically viable. in a sports world cup hosts qatar reveal more details about the next big tournament to be held the country. how do the weather remains basically cold across a good parts of europe as signs of milder air pushing into the west as we go on through the next couple of days well these weather fronts rolling in from the atlantic it will turn some wetter will turn somewhat windy or maybe with a lot winds into central parts of cold but if we clear skies for them for us problems here see some pretty heavy snow and some heavy rain down towards a southeastern corner moving through greece and on into turkey that will continue

to make its way further races but there's that really cold air western side of russia moscow minus 12 celsius in the heat of the day on monday the main while we have got temperatures up around 7 a nice across western parts and rising as we go through the next couple of days getting into double figures in london come tuesday as that wetter and windy weather starts to push through as it does come in initially there will be some snow on the leading edge send some more snow into scandinavia central parts of europe 3 poland czech republic down towards austria but try and settle for many still a few showers down towards at least the side of the med pushing towards the levant crisis guys coming back into cyprus as we go through wednesday but notice some cloud and rain coming in across spain and portugal want to see showers just scraping their way across the far north of africa but for much of north africa is fine and dry. to make a change. change your life or the path of

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earth. from one of the top stories here on ars era the world health organization has been called into question for not declaring a global pandemic until march 2020 an interim report by an independent panel looking into the u.n. agencies response described the global alert system as not fit for purpose of global health emergency wasn't declared until the end of january the 1st cases were reported in rouhani in december 29th. ahead of the world health organization has warned of a catastrophic moral failure in the way vaccines are being distributed around the world as the debate shows his criticism of wealthy countries being accused of ordering doses even developing countries with not. 2 days ahead of joe biden's

inauguration as u.s. president and security in washington d.c. has been ramped up the national mall now resembles a heavily militarized zone measure comes 12 days obstacle to have outgoing president donald trump stormed the capitol building. watch mall and security forces have fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of migrants trying to cross through the country towards the u.s. about 2000 people mostly from honduras camped overnight on a highway in eastern but a honda after clashing with police on sunday the government says the group has been removed on the road since reopened to traffic as many as 8000 migrants refugees have entered since friday. let's go live to john homan in mexico city is monitoring this for us what's happened to that to the miners where they go now. well a lot of them still seem to be in the same place that they've been for quite some

time now by the on the but as you said they were camped out together on the main motorway so there was a sort of full sort of the caravan as these events have been called for some time going through that town and that appears to have been dissipated a lot had to go into side roads as the police have danced on them sealing off exits so they could get further into guatemala by the window is only about 45 kilometers from the border with them douras they haven't got very far even at this point now the latest that we're hearing is that guatemalan authorities are putting on buses for those people that they can persuade to go back to the border with honduras where the bus is a drop in the more so definitely i think at this point this massive event is caravan isn't gaining force it seems to be dissipating people going in different directions that doesn't mean that it's over yet there was a massive number of people 6000 according to guatemalan of thora teas that came into the country in this caravan and a lot of them if we go by what's happened in the past we'll take their own routes

and try and get through guatemala try and get through mexico and to where they want to go in the end which is the united states we've been listening in to local radio rightly or progress so that's been live streaming this just a couple of things that they've heard of people being forced to turn back one lady was saying the people have suffered enough they want liberty we're here because we have to be we're not looking to fight here the police are armed to the teeth and we have nothing to love a lady saying we're looking for our american dream a dignified job because in honduras there's nothing so the american dream they're now the president elect in the united states joe biden what is he going to try and do to stop these events that keep happening for a couple of years now one of his plans is a $4000000000.00 development plan for central america he says that one of the answers is to get private investment and government investment and investment from these cunts. it's themselves going so that people don't have to leave in the 1st

place and the tribes with what the president here in mexico has also said but president elect biden detroit up before when he was part of president obama's administration with mixed results we have to see what's going to happen when he is in power to home thank you very much to u.n. peacekeepers have been killed in a southern region of central african republic after their convoy was ambushed by coalition armed groups the capital bangui is still on high alert after rebels opposed to the reelection of president 1st our shores to idea unsuccessfully tried to invade the city last week and threatening to attack again to india and his government don't resign by sunday even though the result has not been confirmed by the constitutional court the opposition wants a rerun of the december elections saying violence and intimidation kept people away outcome webb has more from donkey. it was no sign of the civilian political

opposition in the room today in the ruling very much favored the ruling party of president. of the opposition it said there was widespread irregularities at the ball and in many parts of the country the poll should be redrawn the constitutional court rejected it just outside. of there is a bit of a celebration going on as it dawns to. some guys down does it come to look for there isn't really an enormous crowd of supporters and this is one of the problems that faces according to a lot of the day that none of the factions who are vying for power really represent the population or may just support the opposition who were challenging the ruling in court to just part of it the armed groups that you mentioned or another probably they just outside the city with the forces that support the government last week and they make clear their intention to come in again they've said that the

government should step down and be on the stand of the build up of thousands of fighters on the edges of the capital. the government u.n. peacekeepers there also russian forces from the wagon a group of private military company that go closely to the state and rwandan soldiers as well the government here says just said as part of some agreement. widely thought that there's different countries may have interest in the not true resources on the ground in the central african republic uranium gold and diamonds that foreign powers for. more than a century. displaced syrians have filled with water during days of heavy rain about 100 camps have been drenched adding to the misery of those with nowhere to go after more than 9 years of war and reports. in camps for displaced people this is what happens when it brains more than 100

camps in northwestern syria have been affected over 48 hours mud is everywhere hundreds of tents have been damaged or made unusable. we set up a tent on the a group cultural and when it rain everywhere became muddy roads are blocked we cannot meet a warden it's. already overcrowded and with many homes ruined people here keep closer together to stay dry often over night little forbid the injured the roads of blocks when the rain comes the tents cannot protect us from rain cold and wind children and women of badly affected by 10 blocks. made worse by sewage and a lack of water supplies kovan 1000 is spreading rapidly with more than 2000 cases recorded in the camps according to syria's response coordination group around half of those in camps are children and many lack adequate clothing for winter let alone flooding. volunteers here are trying to make the best of the situation for them

soccer tournaments really races and competitions to see who can clear water from tents the fastest runs you know. we came here today to the kaffir darien camps to be with those who are facing critical situations and to share some time with them in the cold weather and dirty mud a few minutes are tough for us can you imagine the feelings of those who live here in tents that don't protect from the heat in summer and cold in winter. 12000000 syrians have been displaced by nearly a decade of civil war a 1000000 children have been born as refugees last year a russian backed offensive pushed about a 1000000 people from their homes in aleppo and it lives the last rebel held area in syria 4000000 are living under turkish protection on syria's side of the border many living in the mud camps alongside it as ceasefire by turkey and russia is largely holding and amid the rain there's a tense calm in the camps. aid agencies are hoping thousands of families move to brick homes one turkish agency has handed over 14000 so far providing

a degree of respite to some from the challenges outside and al jazeera it is prime minister tzipi conte has won the 1st of 2 confidence votes in the chamber of deputies that will decide whether his coalition government can stay in power continent needs the approval of the upper chambers to continue if he fails his administration could be forced out of office and a temporary government put in place the vote for the withdrawal from the coalition of former prime minister matteo renzi and his party over the response to the pandemic and the economy scotland voted to stay as part of the united kingdom in a 2014 referendum but the realities of leaving the european union are leading to new calls for independence a large majority of scots were against brics it and many feel distanced from the boris johnson government in london john howard reports from the scottish capital edinburgh. edinburgh's royal mile deserted under

lockdown but with just a faint echo of events that have taken place here over the past decade marching for scottish independence before a referendum in which scots voted to remain part of the united kingdom and later voting for continued membership of the european union but breaks it has changed everything and independence is once more in the air what we were told at that was that if we stayed in the united kingdom it would be staying in the unit union rights as e.u. citizens would be respected and that's been completely ignore the opportunity notice and rest and a referendum on independence and i can see you know to realize that that is our destiny and ask the people. of the scottish parliament in order to achieve that prime minister boris johnson treats calls for another referendum on independence with this day he had

a referendum on the issue in 2014 which senior members of your party perhaps what you said was a once in a generation event it was on that basis that people voted in the way that they did very substantially to keep our wonderful union together boris johnson is loathed by scottish nationalists who see him as the embodiment of for exit and intitled englishman who pays only lip service to the importance of the union so his pitch to build back better together after the pandemic rings hollow here among those who voted heavily to remain in the european union and who now would vote to leave the united kingdom but there's a catch the very thing breaks it that has taken support for independents to new heights is also the thing that makes independents see economically viable so one on one hand brags that acts as and is as an accelerator on independence preferences big. as people are not happy not being in the european union but at the same time

an independent scotland outside of the e.u. but also finding that has difficulty trading with with its former trade partners in the terms in the form of the rest of the u.k. what that also is it is a problem so it makes people want independence more but it makes in some ways the economic consequences of independence far more severe than they were in 24 team but those arguments haven't dented voting intentions yet 18 opinion polls in a row show a firm lead for independence and an expected learned slide win for the scottish nationalists in may's parliamentary election could yet create an unstoppable democratic force jonah hold al jazeera edinburgh china says its economy grew by just over 2 percent last year despite the coded 19 pandemic is likely to be the only major economy to do so as the united states japan and europe struggle to

get on top of rising infections between e.u. reports from beijing. as the pandemic spreads around the world the 1st country affected by the outbreak china has surprised many by the speed of its recovery according to official figures its economy grew by 2.3 percent in 2020 a slightly higher figure than expected china is the only major economy set to avoid a contraction last year. beijing says strict virus controls and financial stimulus measures helped to boost growth later in the year the turnaround followed a historic plunge in economic growth after months of lock down from jenner into april strong manufacturing output and a surge in demand for chinese products by countries later hit by the curtain virus front recovery chinese factories exported large quantities of medical products protective gear and computer equipment for many around the world suddenly forced to work from home still a g.d.p. of 2.3 percent mox the slow economic expansion china has experienced for more than

4 decades and domestic consumption remains weak retail sales fell by 3.9 percent. domestic demand did not help on the g.d.p. growth this rely on demand outside of china investment and consumption here what poor and it won't be easy for this to rebound the slump in consumer spending is a concern for the chinese government last year president xi jinping called for the country to rely less on exports and focus on innovation and bursting household spending but the pandemic has made this shift difficult to achieve resurgent coronavirus cases in the north ahead of annual luna new year festivities in february helping people have been discouraged from travelling and 11 regions around to look down. on the changing epidermis situation an external environment pose a multitude of uncertainties so the foundations of china's economic recovery is yet to be consolidated. china's latest insist the current outbreak is under control and

has begun rolling out carving 1000 vaccinations in several provinces the international monetary fund says china's economy is expected to grow by 7.9 percent in 2021 katrin e.u. al-jazeera beijing. the head of south korean tech giant samsung has been jailed for 2 and a half years is jay wiley was found guilty of bribery and embezzlement in connection with a corruption scandal that brought down former president park geun hay who was jailed in 2017 from abroad reports from seoul. j. wiley arrived at court not knowing if he would be able to walk free again as head of south korea's biggest conglomerate business groups had appealed for leniency and samsung itself has argued that li is essential to its day to day running a claim disputed by critics of the so-called chaebol system a family run businesses that still dominates the economy here every day operation

is done by the professional managers saw even in the cio usually. control. head full information provided by the although he's instead even in the g.a.o. and the he or she can make it of properties and making them 2017 lee was found guilty of bribing disgraced former president park geun hye and her longtime associate choice and so to allow the smooth transition of power at samsung from his father he was released after one year of a 5 year prison sentence the prosecution appealed and last year leap promised changes in his company's business practices in a bid to stay out of prison lies in what is new that we failed to live up to public expectations because disappointment because we did not strictly uphold the law at ethical standards where you read it with the power of south korea's chaebol system

under scrutiny samsung agreed to set up a compliance committee last year at the request of the court to look into its business practices to ensure a case like this wouldn't happen again it was widely seen as a bid to please the court ahead of this ruling but it wasn't enough and the court ordered lead back into custody ruling he'd concealed his multimillion dollar bribe and also committed perjury in his explanation about it to the national assembly of mcbride al jazeera song. still to come there this news out in sport training in a quarantine taken about how some of the world's best tennis players are preparing the australian open world with 1.

1000. thank you very much lionel tennis players have been told not to expect to any special treatment ahead of the 1st grand slam of the season it comes after world number one novak djokovic sent a list of demands to australian open organizes and they were to reports. tennis fans are getting a unique look at what the world's best players get up to in their hotel rooms players are living in strict quarantine after arriving in australia the 1st grand slam of the season more than 70 competitors won't be allowed to leave their hotel rooms at all for up to 2 weeks it follows positive coronavirus tests on some flights bound for the melbourne torments. world number one of a joke which

a sense australian open organizes a list of demands including the suggestion that those players could be moved to private homes with tennis courts djokovic also wants better food for all competitors and a shorter quarantine period people afraid of to provide a list of demands but being it's or is not and that was very clearly put there was very clearly laid out before hand so the notion that there's been any chinese the notion that people won't briefed i think that argument really has no integrity whatsoever players who arrive without any positive tests on my flights are allowed to practice outside every day last year's quarter finalist on super isn't so lucky as she continues her preparations for the events which starts on february the 8th some competitors have claimed they weren't aware just how restrictive the rules would be but others say they fully understand why the measures are in place as

a minority of the players that. i cannot catch up on us a lot. but my larceny are the low this ones and the more the most vocal so maybe comes across as what people there actually is. but you know in my opinion the most important. factor here is to keep you know call with the community the local community the top rank players all set to reemerge from their rooms at the end of the month for a warm up event in adelaide. in the meantime we can all expect to see a lot more of this sort of action on the richardson al-jazeera or 2 of qatar's world cup stadiums that will be used for the upcoming a few for club world cup but that will kick off and next month when i least stadium will stage the torment opener on february the 4th the education city venue will also be used the event that had been due to take place last year but was delayed due to corner virus sixteen's will be taking part including european champions by

munich the draw for the opening round of games takes place on tuesday. david beckham has called on one of his former manchester united team mates to take charge of his major league soccer team phil neville has a quit as manager of the indian women's team and to become a head coach at into miami the m.l.s. franchise is part owned by beck i'm into finished 10th out of 14 teams in the m.l.s. eastern conference last season when we talk about the unbelievable facilities the fantastic staging that we're in at this moment in time you can have all those things but without the people inside those buildings and all the culture in the values that david in the ownership wants to instill into into this football club you have nothing india have given themselves a chance of sealing and away test series win over australia india a bold australia out for 294 in the 2nd innings in brisbane or they are now

a chasing a victory target of $328.00 they resume on 4 without loss in the series is level at one all. in until the 7 wicket victory over sri lanka in the 1st test and call and are now unbeaten in tests and the when boost their chances of qualifying for the 1st ever will test championship final in june what the 2nd and final test of the series starts on friday is a very good. so about make it big. 'd so 'd he does very well. another school students who 'd are all under their number of things that we can take him to the next table very well away. if we're going to keep having continued success the skipper of the u.s. team bidding to win this year's america's cup a says that he thought his boat was going to sink off to cup size during

a race in new zealand emergency services and the rival teams all joined in it to help save the $18000000.00 vessel the team hope to be back racing a by the end of the month the winner of this challenge a series that will take on reigning champion team new zealand for the america's cup and launch the boat was recently buoyant. that's a hindsight comment at the time it felt like the boat was going to sink so we were doing everything we possibly could to prevent that from happening i was trying to eject out of my spot and you know we ended up with knives out cutting ourselves out making sure you're the 1st priority is getting a crew out and you know fortunately we were all out and he probably within a minute underneath the mainsail you know it's it's unnerving to say the least. and also small for me back to lauren. thank you very much indeed santa ana quick money can catch up any time on

a website that just that is al jazeera dot com. that's it for me daryn tell if there's news out of here in a minute with an all rounder face and use thanks george. and for me to the polls good because the renowned for their courage on a fine. one i want to east finds out what it tikes to join the elite brigade. on al-jazeera. afghanistan is on the cusp of a new chapter in its history. after the us on the telephone signed an agreement to

pave the way for the withdrawal of the national troops. the high cost was paid to get to this point. over the past few years the u.s. has increasingly conducted its part of the war from the sky was more bombs dropped last year than any other year in the past decade. but with that came a rise in civilian casualties. this is all accidents to happen at mistakes do happen and that this is about owning all mistakes this is about things guy and this is about accountability in a nasty unaccountable war for families we interviewed not receiving adult humans from the us left them without closure. they told us that they so like what happened to their loved ones was a crime. and they want justice and answers something war too often tonight's. american people have finally focus on america as i split when america is off

balance or will become more dangerous to the world is looking at us live next year of sadness and. with the election behind us will the republican party dump truck the fuel weekly take on us politics and society that's the bottom line. an independent panel questions the show's response to the corona virus outbreak describing the global alert system as not fit for purpose images from china tried to censor and now does their investigation raises questions about beijing's response in the 1st days of the current virus outbreak.

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