we follow that daring journeys as they overcome the extremes. risking it all afghanistan on al jazeera. this is al jazeera. hello i'm rob matheson this is the news our live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes the us hits 25000000 cases of covert 19 as politicians prepared to discuss president joe biden's 1.9 trillion dollar stimulus bill. israel says it's banning air travel in and out of the country to try to contain the spread of coronavirus. tens of thousands flee violence in central african republic as armed

groups advance towards the capital al-jazeera reports exclusively from across the congolese border. and the nightmare ends for 11 miners who spent 2 weeks trapped underground in china but for others the ordeal continues. and as for chelsea are threats around 5 of the english f.a. cup a hat trick from sammy abraham helping them to a $31.00 win over in that. the country with the highest number of covert 1000 infections and deaths the united states has just reached 25000000 cases it's less than a week after the country hit 400000 deaths a number of u.s. states say they don't have enough doses of coronavirus vaccine california health officials are warning some of those most at risk may have to wait up to 5 months to

be immunized from monday air passengers won't be able to fly in and out of israel unless they have a special exemption in hong kong mass testing is underway for thousands of people in neighborhoods that have been sealed off because of an outbreak well known as live for us in washington d.c. let's talk about those numbers in many ways they're not really a surprise because the trajectory has been heading in that direction but it is a staggering figure. it is staggering i mean $25000000.00 that's pretty much the entire population of australia just to put it in some sort of perspective it's one in 13 americans that have contracted coronavirus about 7.5 percent of the total population and but you're right it was really a trajectory that started in january that's when january of last year when the 1st confirmed case of krona virus was discovered in the united states but it took the us 9 months to reach $10000000.00 cases but as

a trajectory kept going upwards especially towards that in the last year it only took 7 weeks for the u.s. to hit the 2nd 10000000 so $10000000.00 cases in 9 months then 10000000 cases in 7 weeks at another 5000000 cases and now you're at 25000000 here in the u.s. but the but the key thing really is the vaccines that's what everyone in the biden ministration is worried about and really focusing on right now and ron klain president biden's chief of staff said on sunday that the vaccine situation that the biden administration has inherited from the predecessor the trumpet ministration is a grave situation listen to a little bit more of what biden's chief of staff had to say but the process to distribute the vaccine particularly outside of nursing homes and hospitals out into the community as a whole did not really exist when we came into the white house as everyone american

is seeing the way in which people get vaccine is chaotic it's very limited we've seen this factor all over the country where millions of doses have been distributed but half of that has been given out so the process of getting that vaccine in the arms that's the hard process that's where we're behind as a country. it's one thing to try to get vaccines into people's arms as one claim was saying there but we're also as we mentioned talking about the $1.00 trillion dollars stimulus bill people want to be able to see cash in their pockets to offset the economic problems they've been having is there any indication or plan that that money might finally start to trickle through well the money will come through at some point the question is how much money and how soon and that's a question if it is being debated in congress this coming week listen $1.00 trillion dollars package proposed by the biden ministration is huge it's big and it's bold

but we're republicans are saying is that biden also threw in some other stuff in there aside from vaccine aside from contact tracing aside from assistance to americans that need it the republicans are saying that listen biden also put in this package a $15.00 minimum $15.00 minimum wage per hour for americans and they're saying listen this has nothing to do with the covert pandemic and this is just a something that is it is something that the progressive wing of the democratic party has been pushing for a long time they said were to simply not going to accept that so the question becomes is how much does biden want to negotiate he does have control of the senate with the tie breaking vote being the vice president so some liberals are saying hey let's push it through no matter what we don't need republican support others in the republican party in the democratic party are saying no let's try to maybe get some republican support here to get and maybe that means we need to bring that's down from what 2 trillion essentially down a little bit so this is a big debate in congress but the bottom line is there are millions of americans

right now that desperately need the help and they will probably get it it's just a matter of how much and how soon. the remorseless in d.c. thank you very much. well rioters in the netherlands have set fire to a coronavirus testing facility on the 1st night of a nationwide curfew authorities say youths in the village of also threw fireworks at officers and stones at police cars 3600 people were fined in nationwide for breaching the curfew is the 1st one imposed since the 2nd world war the country is trying to stamp out a 3rd wave of infections driven by a more infectious strain of the virus and hours later dutch police clashed with anti lock down protesters in the capital amsterdam and the southern city of eindhoven they announced police use water cannon to disperse demonstrators a large square ringed by museums it's the 2nd sunday in a row that police have been fighting with protesters in the dutch capital let's

talk more about those flights in and out of israel and those restrictions how the faucet is in west jerusalem with more. this is a major step. the israeli go from saying let's has not been done. and then make. some concern on the part of the deputy attorney general as to whether would even be legal to prevent israeli citizens from returning home during the course of a cabinet meeting on sunday and has now been approved from monday midnight no. arrivals and no exits through israel's main. will be allowed unless there is special permission granted in exceptional cases this is an attempt to stop new strains coming into the country to a time when the vaccine rollout program is going at a much faster pace than anywhere else in the world already approaching any 30

percent of the population as a whole being vaccinated so there is evidence of the vaccine starting to work what they don't want in israel is for new strains which might escape the vaccine to militate against some of those effects and also there's been some political pressure on. the merged bits that even been in a tent to prevent people coming in without a negative coronavirus test in the proceeding 72 hours that's something that was eventually put in place just yesterday on saturday and is now being superseded by these much more stringent regulations the u.k. is vaccination rate is speeding up the country's struggling to keep infections down some senior ministers are demanding tougher penalties for those who disobey lockdown rules but others are calling for new policies to address people in casual jobs there are fears low income workers don't have enough financial support to self isolate john holl reports. laura is among tens of thousands of food delivery riders

considered critical workers out and about despite the coronavirus lockdown i only had what. i currently have i think they pull it out of my account it does feel like a moral decision. is specially now with peak time winter and often time is when we have most deliveries and when we are off it most rewards as well she admits that it's common among her fellow riders to bend the rules sometimes the widespread sort of attitude is so if it's not going to happen i'm not going to pass it on or i'm not carrying it it's probably like sweeping under the rug in favor of your own personal life instead of really considering the global situation. government discussions reportedly underway about whether to offer fixed payments to anyone required to self isolate only serve to highlight what many say is an abject failure of the test trace and isolate measures that the prime minister once promised would

be world beating it seems britain's pandemic never stops breaking new ground highest death numbers record hospital admissions even its own deadly variant and while the vaccine rollout is currently the most advanced in the world the current lockdown is also projected to be the longest one yet this in part is why recent government research shows that only 17 percent of people with symptoms are coming forward to be tested and just 11 percent of people actually self isolate when asked to do so by n.h.s. test and trace in many cases these are the lowest paid who can't afford not to go to work. there is no point in testing and less you can get people to self isolate because that's where you stop transmission we now know and actually we've known for months and months that the very people who are the most exposed to this virus who

are those on the frontline and low paid for example like care workers can't afford to sell isolate and literally they are in that really difficult position where they have to choose between self isolation and putting food on the table so laura is not alone among society's least well off the cleaners carers and supermarket workers short of being physically ill herself she says if told to self isolate she'll instead go on delivering food to british doorsteps she has no choice john how al-jazeera london then is not as professor of epidemiology at the city university of new york he's joining us by skype it's good to have you with us in our business i thank you very much indeed are we placing too much faith in the vaccines. absolutely not i think the vaccines are you know a very very welcome development in the public health response part of our toolbox

our arsenal to help deal with the endemic spread right away we're going to start seeing the impact of the vaccine on reducing deaths among elderly and people in congress get settings in nursing homes because they're being vaccinated right now in many places as we speak so while we may not be seeing the decreases in community transmission will begin to see an effect of the vaccine on death rates very quickly and i think that's welcome thing i was talking to a correspondent on his own in washington d.c. just a few moments ago he was reminding us that in 9 months it took it took 9 months in the u.s. to reach 10000000 cases it took 7 weeks to reach the next 10000000 i want to ask you about the new variants that are coming in that are supposed to be more infectious when you're dealing with the speed of transmission that the u.s. has seen for example do the new variants actually make much of a difference in terms of dealing with the problem as a whole. i do think that it could potentially really be

a game changer already as you mentioned we're seeing you know very much accelerating spread over the course of the entire endemic history in us but a new strain that is more infectious and more more or more transmissible substantially more transmissible that becomes the predominant strain in the u.s. could greatly accelerate the you know what we're seeing it and begin to outpace the vaccination efforts and undermine those vaccines so this is why it's really important for us to to get vaccine coverage and roll out the backseat as quickly as possible so that we can sort of you know win the race against this this strain and any other ones that may be coming our way we were just hearing in that last reports that about it's estimated about 17 percent of people in the united kingdom don't report even if they have symptoms because they are on low incomes and they're too fighting to lose their jobs testing in tracing or trace in particular is of course significant in all of this and if we expanded of course there are people who don't

want to take the vaccine for a variety of different reasons there is a temptation for those of us on the outside just watching this that it is almost a losing battle in a sense because humanity itself is working against itself to make this work. right i think you know when and when you see situations like in the u.k. and like we have many places in the us where community transmission is just so high testing and tracing i mean testing is always important especially when when positives are recognized quickly and then they can isolate quickly so as to prevent ongoing spread the contact tracing part of it though i think becomes less useful as we have more and more cases it really becomes impossible to have a dent on the epidemic by by doing contact reason but if we can get more people who are positive to know that they're infected as soon as possible and critically have

that followed up by itself isolation then i believe we can begin to have an impact when as you say if people are sort of disincentive eyes or have a very hard time following those health guidelines because they need to work they need to put food on the table. that is going to really undermine the efforts to control the epidemic and i believe it's a big reason why we have the trajectory that we have in the u.s. today and i would guess in the u.k. as well just briefly given your long experience and epidemiology on how great is the challenge in terms of keeping people calm and keeping things in perspective we're being bombarded by suggest ins of mutants of the virus variations of the virus increased infection rates and so on. well i think at least in the u.s. it's going a long way that we now have a vaccine that is being rolled out you know slow slower than all of us would like

and also goes a long way that we have that new administration who's actually putting together a national plan and ready to leverage our federal government to the fullest this is something we haven't seen in a long time and i think the lack of that we're shipped the lack of that 1000000 and frankly caring about the well being of our country's population. really caused a lot of anxiety and stress and so so i know that there's a lot of optimism right now in our country despite the very real ongoing threat of this and demick we really are in a place where we can begin to turn the tide over the coming winter to get the benefits of your expertise in this dennis nash we appreciate it sir thank you very much indeed thanks for having me on kong as struggling to contain a surge in cases over recent weeks mainland china is worried to its seeing its biggest wave of infection since march sarah clarke reports from hong kong. health

authorities have sealed off hong kong densely packed district of jordan after so infections those living in around $150.00 buildings have been forbidden to leave their homes in a fortnight alimentary down the sewage systems in several blocks have also been contaminated with high concentrations of the virus found in movie samples he's part of calin is home to many elderly and paul residents living in small and subdivided flats the district accounts for hof of the new transmissions recorded i've the last week are actually at will carry. we should have a complete lockdown for 10 days pro. for. this today mandatory lockdown in hong kong is the 1st but it's not expected to be the last but the chinese new year holiday just weeks away the government is tightening restrictions to avoid another spike in tysons as families gather for the biggest annual celebration chinese new year is the most important family holiday

celebrations have been impacted by surge in cases on the mainland mad recovered tests are ongoing in chanche and city in the north of china residents in who by province surrounding beijing as well as those living in julian and province have been forced into another lockdown temporary quarantine facilities are being built to cope with the highest number of infections since march last year millions of people in mainland china would normally travel across the country to see their families over this holiday break for a 2nd year in a row chinese new year plans are under threat but the government advising its citizens to stay home and sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. try to more ahead on the news hour we meet some of the young patients feeling the impact of the health sector many say is stuck in the past. it's been lying dormant for decades so why is the philippines thinking about reviving this nuclear plant. and the olympic

champion who's back at the top of her sport after her 2 year time out to university . the number of people fleeing from violence in central african republic to nearby countries is soaring according to the un refugee agency foreign forces supporting the government of ca are have been battling armed groups since last month it's estimated that 100000 people have left their homes but they are still inside the country among those who have fled almost 5000 people have traveled to cameroon a similar number have gone to chad while 400 traveled to the republic of congo but 90000 people have crossed into democratic republic of congo and it's not clear what's going to happen to them al-jazeera as malcolm webb went to speak to some of them in remote locations near some biloela in the democratic republic of congo.

killing looting and rape by fighters from armed groups in the central african republic to send tens of thousands of villages on the run many of them of crossed the river. in dugout canoes on the other side is relative safety in villages in the democratic republic of congo only accessible by boat we went to look for them with the un refugee agency. and we found them in their thousands sheltering in villages along the river bank. our arrival crowd people here say they've been waiting for help since they arrived here last week they lined up hoping. brought him. and more keep coming. others go back to retrieve possessions from their homes or crops from their farms. that's what it leads back home

a tried. and she came back with nothing see. the rebels attacked our village last week we had a lot of gunfire they destroyed everything they raped girls and they kidnapped some of them we didn't see exactly what happened because we had to run her sister fled with her one month old baby daniel. you know. it was 4 in the morning when the rebels attacked and started burning houses we all ran my husband ran into the forest where he fell into the hands of the rebels and they killed him. that you would never know his father one of an unknown number of civilians killed in the file and in the last month. russian mercenaries rwandan troops and u.n. peacekeepers have helped the government to keep the coalition of armed groups out of the capital. violence escalated since elections last month which political opposition says was rigged. the armed groups say the government must go the occupy

about 2 thirds of the country including most of its gold and diamond mines the armed groups now control the villages that we can see just over there on the other side of the river people who live on this side say they can hear gunfire when they're fighting this is one of the homes of one of the usual residents of the village of some biloela it's basic the villages being completely overrun its population is fallen by about 20 times of the new arrivals those lucky enough to have a mosquito net sleeping on the way out in the open many others have just built basic structures made of branches and leaves their exposed tomasky tows malaria and everybody here says that there's hardly any food to eat or clean water to drink. people told us of eating whatever edible plants they can find in the bush. the local office of the u.n. refugee agency says it's operating on

a cutback budget internally for supporting long term refugees who settled here after the last exodus 8 years ago all supposed to treat them with dignity and so let that they make this all work that up and i want it up on the world i mean the culture you know land out ahead of the promise so i want to see the promise of blacks by ups and it's not safe to go home but without help they can't relocate and settle here in congo they're wondering how long they'll be stuck here. after a few hours we have to leave people here desperately hoping somebody will soon come back and help malcolm webb al-jazeera tsonga lola democratic republic of congo. is a country representative of u.n.h.c.r. and democratic republic of congo she says the refugees are vulnerable. that and more than a close to 90000 now is committed by the authorities we can classify as quite

desperate because one the physical location in which this refugees have a right is very vast they are in 3 provinces and they are basically very very difficult to reach secondly didn't come emotionally depleted some of them this is not the 1st time that crossing into the d.s.e. those who even left let last year help found themselves again been to again been displaced so emotionally in a very very hard position also in terms of their. 'd big canary needs fuld water sanitation 'd slippin and. 'd science at the moment because we have we're still every look at an assistance from kinshasa and from but only to the dislocation. where they find themselves in 3

provinces and the host committee that normally would assist them where the 1st responders that themselves in a very day a precarious situation and when they sit where taiwan says several chinese military planes are vented its airspace for a 2nd day the island's defense ministry has reported that a total of 15 chinese aircraft including 12 fighter jets entered the southwestern corner of its air defense identification zone it's the 2nd day in a row chinese warplanes have carried out 4 taipei's describing as an incursion into its airspace meanwhile the u.s. state department called on china to stop exerting what it calls military diplomatic and economic pressure on taiwan it comes as a u.s. aircraft carrier group has entered the south china sea on a mission to promote but the u.s. military is calling freedom of the scenes. 11 miners have been rescued in china's northeast after being trapped underground for 2 weeks they want among $22.00 caught

in a blast at a gold mine in shandong province that least one miner is known to have died well it's not known what's happened to the others not a burden man reports blindfolded to protect his eyes after 2 weeks in the dark but grateful to be alive this is the moment a gold mine was pulled to safety after being trapped hundreds of meters below ground he's part of a 5th group of miners rescued in east china's shandong province 7 miners were able to walk to the ambulance others were too exhausted from their ordeal rescue teams say they pulled up those most in need 1st. critical case comes before the light one which is the principle of mine accident rescue so the severe ones have been pulled up 1st and the following are in better physical and psychological conditions. but more a still trapped. and animation shows what happened

a blast deposited large amounts of rubble in the shaft rescue teams then began trying to rescue those stranded a handwritten note from the miners was hoisted above ground using a metal cable it read don't stop trying to reach us rescuers load food and medical supplies to the kind of the rescuers checked the miners to see if they had any injuries and covered their eyes for protection generally speaking the rescue operation proceeded faster than expected after lifting all the trapped miners discovered will go on with the search for the other missing miners. the safety of miners in china has improved in the past few years following a government campaign that's after hitting a peak of 5000 deaths in 2003 but what's went wrong in this mine is yet to be determined the al-jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera repatriating indonesia's

stolen heritage we look at how the pandemic is hampering efforts to bring back artifacts from the netherlands. as hospitals are overwhelmed in brazil protesters called for president generals are not open to resign over his handling of the pandemic. and the italian champions are not backing down as they look to retain their title of football action coming up in support. of. the weather remains surprisingly quiet stretch the arabian peninsula the levant and iran the good part of turkey if anything temperatures are slowly rising by approximately a degree day that's not quite true in western turkey here is breezy and sherry and the show miles from blood has become much lighter than through the go so temperatures in die hard coming up a degree of sight per day as well otherwise it is remarkably quiet for this time of

the year. we just got pictures in from places further south we've seen active weather is tropical eloise which just about gave us winds about 130140 kilometers across beta now these pictures show some wind damage there's widespread flooding i would say maybe as mine a structural damage but solved it was fairly major this is a big signpost brought down or across the road so that was you know it's pretty widespread stuff but the communications of being restored slowly now so the next day or so we're going to be looking into what happens with the remains of this tropical cycle well this is what happens it's a likelihood of significant flooding in the far south of mozambique the eastern side of south africa botswana reasons sudden zimbabwe the likelihood is one to 200 to be the right or in hunston storms with significant hail from many.

of the al-jazeera is an investigative team to obtain censored and unseen video from will high filmed as the coronavirus are great is just beginning. leaning on all those years that the iraqi television more exposing this secrecy and censorship by chinese authorities. ha ha ha ha ha ha i'm the health system struggling to cope i'll just see the investigation 3 days that still the world when the news breaks the next few days a personal security forces have been deployed to hit me in hot water like this one when people need to be. our demands have to be fulfilled by the government and then if all the families leave either but if other farmers stay out of state i'll just see iraq has teams on the ground this is the insurrection that president trump is accused of killing to bring moral mood ring documentaries and lightnings.

old. oh. you want to notice you don't remind of our top stories this hour 25000000 people have now been infected with corona virus in the united states it's the worst affected country but a pandemic it comes less than a week after the country hit 400000 deaths. a surge in violence in central african republic forcing tens of thousands of people to escape across the border the un refugee agency says those fleeing attacks by armed groups desperately need help. 11 miners have been rescued in the northeast of china after being trapped underground for 2 weeks they were among $22.00 caught in the blast at

a gold mine in shandong province at least one miner is known to have died. dozens of people have joined protest convoys across brazil calling for president jebel sonata to be impeached over his handling of corona virus and also angry about a vaccination program which is being delayed in amazonas state a locked arms being imposed from monday hospitals in the capital now it's a still overwhelmed as infections there rise monica you not have reports from rio de janeiro or anything all you really hit me was my my god is among the lucky few in my nose. over there thank god i am much better after a lot of work and physiotherapy it is called me a lot of hospitals in the largest city of the brazilian amazon have no room and oxygen is scarce 2 new strains of the corona virus have only made things worse for millennium. we were told to treat him at home because they have no capacity to

receive more patients there's also a lack of oxygen tanks for patients and the called those a full. many have died of suffocation but his modest children were able to see their 60 year old father by improvising in emergency care unit in his home they bought an oxygen cylinder on the black market and hired physiotherapists to help him breathe oh my dear it's a war with no gunshots but there are fatal victims the federal government and other states have helped my mouse and other cities of the amazon a state by sending oxygen tanks and that scene's indigenous people in remote villages have received the 1st shots of the chinese corona back vaccine. corruption has put in operation in the amazon a state on hold health professionals the elderly indigenous people considered to be

more vulnerable should have been vaccinated 1st but there are allegations some people like rich. businessmen have managed to get along. brazil has the world's 2nd largest couvade 1000 death toll but it was late to start inoculation when it finally did a week ago there weren't enough vaccines to go around. 2000000 doses of oxford's astra zeneca vaccine have only just arrived from india. the thousands of brazilians took to the streets to protest against the government's handling of the pandemic hasn't what the people want a vaccine for everyone people want emergency support people want bolton are out brazil's president datable scenario has always downplayed the virus he's once more down to the efficiency of the vaccines that infections are also growing in big cities like some bolo and rio de janeiro some bubbles governor is imposing new

restrictions to stop them from spreading monica and i give. rio de janeiro the un says more than half of the children in syria are being deprived of an education it says it's a sharp rise from previous estimates and is likely down to cover 19 the un's one in the education system is overstretched and unsafe in a country that suffered a decade of war one in 3 schools there have been destroyed damaged or they're being used by fighters. and they're not the only ones being affected 1600000000 children and young people around the world had their education severely disrupted last year because of the pandemic this map by the united nations shows 29 countries in red that have closed schools juta covert 19 the ones in blue are partially closed as of january 258000000 children have been unable to attend school because of closures children in more developed parts of the world have been able to continue classes

remotely but many more who don't have access to computers of the internet have been unable to learn the u.n. secretary general antonio terrace marks the international day of education on sunday by saying it's a fundamental right that must be protected to avert a catastrophe. monis anthony sis is director of the u.s. school global education monitoring report he says the children who haven't been able to learn remotely have been left behind. in the international date of education it is a stark reminder of the multiple purposes that education serves in children's lives and i think this also has children out down to politicians minds and governments minds all around the world but it is really essential to maintain schools open it is really to be really the very last resort to have the schools closed but inevitably in some countries the health situation does not really leave them must

choice i think around the world everyone believes in the value and importance of education but unfortunately many children are going to be faced with the poverty of their families and the lack of means to continue their education and it's again not a mindset issue it's the issue that so many children have been actually left behind because of limited access to the means that will enable them to follow distance education and also because at the end of the day we know that this of education despite weigh ins efforts all around the world is only subject beauty maybe sometimes a poor substitute to what you cation imprisons and offered it is the disadvantage so you can really are about to fall behind further because it is them that are suffering more from the living condition that make falling education from a distance much more difficult but also from the means and the support they can get

. doctors in kurdistan says they're struggling to treat their patients because of a lack of public funding for health care said has been hit hard by 3 decades of political instability in the country since the breakup of the soviet union charles stafford went to a clinic in northern accent district. the uk sue rehabilitation center in northern kyrgyzstan was built by the soviets in the 1950 s. to treat polio victims. in outreach children suffering from a neurological condition the doctors say could be prevented if pregnant mothers received basic health care. but that something often not available to many women forced to rely on what experts say is a struggling government health sector stuck in the past 7 year old as either has suffered from cerebral palsy since birth it's a neurological disorder that affects a person's ability to move maintain balance and speak to mom brings the head to the

center of a physio and voice their plea every few months as easy clearly enjoys it mom says she's improving it is a lesson. previously she couldn't talk sit down or eat but this therapy is helping and she can now even play with her sister our lives are beginning to improve with the city's on shockingly basic proof experts say of years of government neglect but around $3000.00 children come from all over the country every year for treatment for cerebral palsy. despite lacking basic modern equipment and few professionally trained staff the center has built up a reputation for being the based in the country in treating children with cerebral palsy. for those who structured over a hot spring because of the therapeutic qualities of the it's a. shame and then because they're off drugs his son is law 8 hours from the capital

bishkek to get the hydro and physical therapy he needs. his condition does not affect could need to function like intelligence he can be treated but not cured john it as a cough will graduate this year with a degree in i.t. . he's been receiving treatment here for almost 20 years and staff say he is proof that despite the difficulties they face success can be achieved. i want to be a good auntie specialist and work for a big company that's my pliant he says it's hard work constantly trying to improve yourself but you have to and that's my advice they doctor he says there's not enough government money to offer basic medicine and visit mins let alone more specialized treatments some of the children need to. get up what they do we have difficulties i believe the government is trying to help us to provide free

treatment but it has to fund every sphere of the health sector it can't just focus on us. the challenges are immense her family and the staff are the to santa but with the can therapy she needs there is every reason she should live a long and fulfilling life charles trafford al-jazeera norden kidney stone. coates emir has reappointed 6. as prime minister ourselves resigned along with his cabinet last week during a standoff with parliament that's after 38 m.p.'s back to request to question him on constitutional affairs including his choice of ministers the mayor has asked the prime minister to nominate a new cabinet. the scottish national party has revealed plans to hold what it calls its own legal referendum on leaving the united kingdom scotland's 1st minister nicola sturgeon says they'll push ahead with a 2nd vote after the pandemic if the british prime minister refuses to grant one

himself that says new polls reported in the british newspaper the sunday times show 50 percent of scottish voters want a referendum and that a majority of all u.k. voters expect scotland to become independent within the next 10 years while those same polls show just over half of voters in northern ireland also want to referendum on irish unification the sunday times goes on to say that 48 percent of northern irish voters believe there will be a united ireland within a decade we spoke to ian mclean he's a professor of politics at the university of oxford in explains what's behind the renewed support for independence. this is what you might call a game of chicken between prime minister barak's johnston and 1st minister nicolas sturgeon each is waiting to see if the other one will blink 1st and. first minister sturgeon actually is being very cautious about trying to ensure that

the referendum that she wants to hold after the scottish election in may has a sound legal basis this is because she is looking over her shoulder at what happened in spain and catalonia a few years ago where the council and government held a referendum which the spanish government said was illegal the reason she is shaking the globe no is that she is trying to prepare the ground by publishing a bill before the scottish parliament election which is in may so that's the timetable that determines her as to the argument being put forward by the u.k. government that there was a referendum in 2014 which voted no and that settled it she has quite a strong argument against that which is that in that referendum those who wanted scotland to stay in the u.k. said only by voting no can you stay in the european union well the scots voted no

and now they're no longer in the european union so she's entitled to say things have changed the dangers from prime minister johnson that he can go on saying no to a referendum. in fact i think from his point of view there is more danger in the situation in ireland than there is in the situation in scotland the idea of irish unification which was completely inconceivable until i would think the last 12 months is now moving rapidly up the agenda there and the disruption to trade and every day life in northern ireland that has occurred since breaks it i think is pushing people there towards the idea of irish unification that one will be more difficult for him to stop. the philippines is looking to revive a dormant nuclear power plant to solve its energy crisis experts say it could reduce power prices by up to 70 percent jamelle and dog visited the facility and

bought on. entering the philippines only nuclear power plant is like a step back in time the better a nuclear power plant it was built in the seventy's and was the 1st in south east asia but it never opened it was marked bald and past presidents were hesitant to recommission it because it was a reminder they say of the excesses of former president ford in the markets his regime but the country's electricity prices are among the highest in southeast asia partly because its dependence now on imported fossil fuels that means the average filipina family spends between 10 to 20 percent of their monthly income in a lecture city philippines has for decades now been avoided as an investment destination in southeast asia because our electricity has either been expensive or in short supply and unreliable philippine president rodrigo to turkey has ordered his officials to look into the possibility of including nuclear power into the

country's energy mix and a possible revival of the butter and nuclear power plant it tells the whole world we're ready for a nuclear b. and b.p. has 3 sister plants that have been running for over 30 years x. . in slovenia in brazil and in south korea but what people forget is that no nuclear plant in the world operates without the blessings of the international atomic energy agency the watchdog it is quite clear that some parts of the nuclear power plant are aging but regulators here tell us all it needs is a few years and an estimated $1200000000.00 of commissioning and it will be as good as brand new. but there are also those in government who say that but the and nuclear power plant belongs to a by current era there's already a big push back on nuclear technology itself now you get a jump start which is all embroiled in controversy we don't want to start their

nuclear program in the wrong foot you want to start it in the right for environmental activists also believe that the government should focus on producing clean energy instead like wind and solar but whether but to and will be recommissioned by president or to go to teddy or not one thing they say is for sure the energy crisis in the country is a social justice issue and one that may worsen if there is no investment in the country's energy system to get al-jazeera but on province northern philippines one of the world's most wanted man accused of running asia's biggest crime syndicate has been arrested in the netherlands who was taken in by dutch police and request by surlier the un office and drugs and crimes he is believed to be having all a multi-billion dollar heroin and methamphetamine operation for more than 300 years the netherlands colonized what is now modern day indonesia and took thousands of

cultural and religious artifacts after years of negotiation the dutch government returned some items last year indonesian historians want more to be given back jessica washington reports. this dagger is called the christian indonesia it's made from gold and is covered in precious stones it's one of $1500.00 items returned last year. for more than 300 years dutch colonizes occupied what is now indonesia they stole thousands of precious cultural and religious artifacts and took them to the netherlands. after years of negotiation the artifacts were finally handed back the 1st time such a large collection has been returned to indonesia. it includes this shield used by the dayak people in cali month on hundreds of years ago decorated with the hair of their enemies. but you know that i think that i am it shows that as

a colonized country we had our historical culture and this is important for future generations to understand. getting these items back took 6 years of planning and putting them on display was delayed due to the outbreak of covert 19 the dutch government offered to return more than $12000.00 artifacts in total the indonesian authorities chose to select only a small percentage of them indonesian historians say some items should remain in the netherlands so that indonesian culture can be experienced there too but there are also financial reasons for it the thing that can lead to and which i mean that is we don't want to museum to become a warehouse by taking items which are not important it would just add to our maintenance costs because all artifacts need special care this manuscript for example contains instructions for protecting against witchcraft it needs to be stored at $25.00 degrees so that it isn't damaged by humidity there are thousands

of indonesian artifacts still in dutch museums and authorities hope to eventually bring more for them home but it's a long and complicated process and historians say they'll need to carefully curated items that are written and those of great interest are the ones that reveal more about the country's past. but when they are about it and it's you know many of our items are related to snog or free they add to our understanding of the many ethnic groups in indonesia which we did not have before in october a dutch commission on colonial collections recommended its government return items taken from former colonies that includes these diamond which once belonged to the sultan of punjab muhsin and used to be 70 carats it was violently seized by dutch troops who are bullish the sultanate and sent the rough diamonds back to the netherlands to be caught into this rectangular 36 karat jam. is something belongs to indonesia they should return it to indonesia but the

repatriation of such a valuable item is complicated the descendants of the sultan say it should be given to them and not to the government jessica washington al-jazeera jakarta. sports next here on al-jazeera one of golf's rising stars begins the news your opinion susan is the 103 without story shortly. ok calm and make sure you're not hyping the situation be part of the debate my main characters are women and when no topic is off the table the law is in the last allow child marriage to happen legally these are basically archaic walls often with jet mines and legal one is pedophile. online jumping to the comments section and meeting to be part of the discussion this stream on out is there i care

about how the u.s. engages with the rest of the world i cover foreign policy national security is very much a political impasse here's the paul how do we illustrate it are we telling a good story will people get what we're trying to hear in their living outside in makeshift tents this is not the way any family want to raise their children we're willing to get in take me into a place that you might not visit otherwise and to actually feels that you were there. by the supporters and we thank you so much trouble to of english football's faces rivals facing each other right now in the f.a. cup manchester united are leading $32.00 against liverpool and i found this putting

the united ahead with a free kick in the 78th minutes there on the brink of the 5th round united also have the edge over liverpool in the premier league at the moment that stop and 6 points clear of the defending champions liverpool at some abraham scored a hat trick to help chelsea events they beat leeds and $31.00 result takes a little bit of pressure off their manager frank lampard chelsea are on a pretty bad run in the premier league down to night after winning just once in their last 5 games. telling champions events this one on sundays they attempt to keep pace in the serial title race under a polo side beaten by a long year sooner out or in west to make any getting the goals here there is a woman she various 7 points behind leaders ac milan they do have a game in hand. now napoli scored after just 8 seconds in their game against us for mexico's having was on and with that goal the 3rd fastest in several history verona

had time to hit back they went on to win 31 napoli are 6th in the same. kind of mcgregor says he's heartbroken after suffering a career damaging defeat on his return to the u.f.c. on could be the sport's biggest commercial draw knocks out by dustin. the 32 year old arash man has vowed to carry on fighting the forward see weight world champion claimed he was suffering with a leg injury. too little too late and i was compromised i didn't adjust to it and that's it for play there's some very happy if i am very happy that i got the company in this in these times and and come back leah leavened us the main event and that's the time. i don't know i don't know where am i the minutes now past so earlier on we spoke to the sportswriter john morgan who is in abu dhabi for that concept he believes that despite the loss mcgregor will be back he certainly doesn't need to compete anymore the guys put a lot of money away made it

a ton of cash in his fighting career especially the floyd mayweather fight for those that need to but man after the fight you could see it burning in him he was he was up there talking about the things that had gone wrong and what he needs to correct and how to fix it i think you'll be backing up think you'll be back with kind of renewed focus and renewed energy he actually said you know he thinks one of the problems with him this time was the long extended layoff so maybe we even see him fighting more frequently so i'm covered side to see but what happens with carter moving forward you know to me it's interesting where you put kind of a gregory history always say you know if you were to write a book about the history of the u.s.c. you couldn't not have a chapter about chrono mcgregor i mean he's that important to the growth and he is one of the most fantastic fighters in the history of the sport and it is rise was amazing but you know i don't think he's a pound for pound great at the moment you know he didn't have that long legacy that the last thing you know record of title defense is i think what you have to have sustained dominance over an extended period time to really establish yourself as one of the all time greats and and he never did that but that didn't change his

impact on the sport it didn't change what he meant to the growth of it i mean he really turned a lot i was on to the sport that didn't know about it before and what he's done from so opposite is pretty amazing. roy macro let his overnight lead slip at the abu dhabi championship world number 6 mark wright had a one stroke at vantage going into the final day but when he hit trouble england's still has an over holding with a final round of $66.00 outs and winning the opening of events on the european saw 5 shots. even there are knocking the pie in an 18 doesn't kind of seem won the tournament. is amazing. i've always loved my season here in abu dhabi and to now add my name on that trophy which so many great champions before me is is a huge honor and the women's tennis tour has arranged a tournament exclusively for players unable to leave the hotel rooms drink or

unseen ahead of the australian open events will start on february 3rd as the build up to the 1st grand slam of the season $72.00 players currently in very strict quarantine after coronavirus case is what it's acted on their flights to melbourne and 2018 olympic champion it chloe came is back competing and winning after a 2 year break this victory in snowboarding half pipe comes after the 22 year old american took some time out from the sport to go to university events in switzerland was her 1st world cup competition since 2090 m. is now building up to the defense of her title at the 2022 beijing olympics. so excited you know that like 30 min away in between there's no nerve racking. visualizing over and over. and i without being there my coach it is so yeah definitely i was just saying positive the whole time which i really think helped me . ok more from a in a couple of hours for that is how the sports is looking for the time to thank you

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