it says is incredible will to survive the arab awakening absolute power. the us is always of in fact the people all right the world people pay attention to what goes on here and i do see it as very good at bringing the news to the world from here. this is al-jazeera. a lot i'm adrian so i get this is that he was live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. it is illegal. to leave schools to stay sharp strict the rules for travelers the u.k.'s prime minister announces new measures to fight the coronavirus pandemic. iran dismisses an israeli generals

warning of a possible offensive a psychological warfare. russian m.p.'s fast track their approval to extend the only remaining arms treaty with the us a week before it was due to expire. and the pressure grows on australia as a tackle a serious environmental crisis caused by forest fires of rampant land clearance. and install the international olympic committee is set to release a plan to ensure that soucie games do happen a so-called playbook will detail how athletes can arrive and compete safely in japan. and. we begin in the u.k. where prime minister boris johnson has announced tougher restrictions on people entering the country from high risk regions travellers from 22 red list countries will have to hotel quarantine for 10 days it's an effort to stop the influx of new strains of covert 19 as the number of infections and deaths of brought the country

to a crisis point at a dispute between the european union and astra zeneca is escalating the drugmakers c.e.o. says that a deal to provide 400000000 doses of its vaccine was not a contractual commitments the e.u.'s fired back telling the company to publish the contract while south africa's government has just approved astra zeneca vaccine for emergency use it's stealing with a surge in infections driven by a worrisome local strain of the virus we have correspondents across continents on this global story is standing by for us in johannesburg dominic kane is in berlin but 1st let's go to rory chalons who's that london's gatwick airport rory and the u.k. is home secretary. has just been outlining tougher restrictions for anyone entering the country what does she say. yeah i do one in 3 in the country from a number of countries

a selection of countries that have basically been put on a red list because they are countries that have potential new strains or new strains of corona virus circulating that the u.k. does not want those strains arriving on british shores so essentially what's the government has just done boris johnson and then proceed to tell outlined this in the commons saying that. there are bans already in place on people arriving from these countries but there are also people in those countries who are u.k. residents or british says the citizens if they're coming back to the country what they will have to do is put themselves straight into a hotel like one of the hotels around here at that way heathrow airport so that points of return essentially and stay there for 10 days this is a way i think for the government to try and answer the critics who are saying that

you know the board is a to open at the moment. the opposition policy labor has said that this is hoff bikes policy and that it wants to see these kind of restrictions placed on anyone who's coming into the country not just from. parts of the world there was some other announcements from the prime minister today as well saying that following the parliamentary recess at the end of february when m.p.'s come back from that the government will be outlining essentially the road map for the u.k. coming out of its current lockdown measures and also news on schools and when they might be opening news that will have elicited grown. the frustration from parents up and down the country we can hear what being outside was from our sourcing now. we achieve our target of vaccinating everyone in the 4 most vulnerable groups with their 1st dose by the 15th of february and every passing day sees more progress

towards that goal then those groups that have developed immunity from the virus about 3 weeks later that is by the 8th of march we hope it will there will be safe to begin the reopening of schools from monday the 8th of march with other economic and social restrictions being removed there are as and when the data commits. after telling the country last night that the prime minister accepts any blame for the death toll in the country full responsibility he said he's still taking flak about the way that the government has dealt with the pandemic. yeah absolutely i mean the criticism of the governments throughout the generations of this pandemic since march has been that every time it takes a step. or 2 or 3 weeks to light it when since the 1st lockdown 2 or 3 weeks to

light is should have listened to the scientists in the run up to the christmas period where the government was still saying that people should be able to have a you know a family christmas when it was already clear that a new strain of corona virus was circulating in the south of england that was spreading around other parts of the country to. this we're now in the situation where the e.p.a. has one of the worst death rates in the world so boris johnson has been saying that . this is something that he bears responsibility for as the prime minister but it's the the u.k. and his government did everything that it could have to forwarded those deaths now of course this is being picked up on by opposition politicians by kids stallman who's the leader of the of the labor opposition party the scottish national party

has been saying criticizing the prime minister as well saying that this is patently not true every time that he has made a decision they say he's made it too late and the travel restrictions are not the example of that they're pointing to saying that they've been calling for tougher restrictions the u.k.'s borders for months that should have been tightened up a long long time ago and yet again. they say the forest runs and has chosen to fudge the issue a half baked policy is what kids dhamma cold it saying that this is essentially something that it is taking trying to appease people on both sides of the divide and he should be much firmer about saving lives and he has been i was there as were a challenge reporting live from london's gatwick airport mori many thanks indeed let's get more on the european union's vaccine supply problems al-jazeera started it came is with us from berlin dominic tell us more about the e.u.'s rar with astra

zeneca. what's happening here is you have the 2 parties to this agreement as it were disagreeing about that terms of the agreement we have heard that the c.e.o. of astra zeneca has said that from his company's perspective what they promised the e.u. was their best efforts to produce the numbers of doses of their vaccine which the european union was going to pay for we have heard in the course of the past half an hour or so from the relevant commission vice president that's the e.u. commission vice president stella kitty akki karaoke this who said no that the e.u.'s position was not about best efforts that when they invested in good faith more than 400000000 dollars. towards purchasing perhaps 400000000 doses of the vaccines because the vaccine hadn't even been created at that point that there was no question of best effort they were doing investing in the company on the basis of

assuming that the company would be able to provide the doses it said it would be able to provide so you clearly have a real sense of disagreement just about the terms of the contract now the european union has been seeking to publish the contract that says it can't do that unless astra zeneca agrees to do that we've also had the rather facile situation today about different reports suggesting that a meeting between the 2 parties here was going to happen that it wasn't going to happen and now again it seems that it is going to happen with stella karaoke this saying that the steering group of the e.u. that high officials from her department and others will have some sort of meeting with representatives from astra zeneca in the course of the next few hours to see where they can go next but interesting leigh when miss kitty kitty us was pressed about how many doses the e.u. actually expects it will get from astra zeneca in the 1st few months of this calendar year she didn't give an answer that may be something that still needs to

be nailed down but the point here is that the e.u. is expecting to have many tens of millions of doses from astra zeneca and we really don't know whether any of those this is or the most of those doses will actually be arriving in the e.u. in the course of the next couple of months dominic kane reporting live from berlin dominic many thanks indeed let's turn to the situation there in south africa where regulators of approved astra zeneca vaccine for emergency use are serious from it amila is live for us in johannesburg from a what stages south africa at its vaccination drive. well many would argue that south africa has been left behind in the vaccination drive led to little has been done up till now the government had said that through the kovacs agreement they would be getting at least 10 percent of the doses of vaccine needed in the coming months and that they've also spoken to astra zeneca and they expect to get $1500000.00 doses

a 1000000 of those doses now in january we're ending we're nearing the end of the month and then a further $500000.00 in february a head of that that approval has. is is now in place to receive those vaccines and distribute them the government has said that the primary objective would be to vaccinate frontline workers health workers who really are most at risk in south africa especially given the worries over the new strain that's been identified in south africa which appears to be spreading faster than the initial one south africa is now in its 2nd wave that approval has only come through now we are expecting that those vaccinations to be given in the new week that's the indication from the government it's not certain if that plan will stay in place and there really is a worry about the number of deaths that south africa has experienced in january specifically at the height of the 2nd wave south africa saw at least 21000 new

cases every day that's now just below 10000 but the concern really is the treatment of south africans and one other development has been the approval of ivermectin the now that's a drug that in south africa is richest and for use by animals for things like parasites and tropical diseases but it's increasingly it's been used to treat people with covert 19 an anecdotal evidence would suggest that it has been quite effective we've had some doctors describe it as a miracle drug now south africa health products or thora he has said that they're going to. allow for what he calls compassionate use they say that they're concerned that the drug is being used in south africa even by talk to us but there's no control over it's an all this is a a step towards trying to monitor and control its use essentially allowing for people to use that drug to treat coronavirus 0 is fundamentally live in

johannesburg from the many thanks indeed in lebanon people are continuing their protests against lockdown measures and the state of the country's economy these live pictures from tripoli in oldham lebanon protests resumes. at the 60 people were injured. or have been injured since monday we can take you live to observers say to hold a news in tripoli what's going on there now saying. well we are at the main square and that tripoli protesters have started to converge as you can see a few 100 people people are. they are saying that they can no longer survive they can no longer make ends meet they can no longer buy food for their children because the coronavirus locked out is just an added burden to their to their struggles already this is an impoverished city already the economy of this country has collapsed before the pandemic was 1st detected last february so these people

have reached the breaking point they say that they have no other option but to take to the streets to vent their anger and to tell the authorities that they have to provide some sort of assistance if they want them to stay at home it is now the 3rd week of a very strict lockdown a 24 hour curfew in order to try to stem the rise in part on of piracy cases yet we've been in the city for the past few hours and compliance with this lockdown has been very weak people are in the streets. a lot of the people who live here a lot of the workforce work in the informal sector so these people don't have any social security protections a little assistance so anger is growing this is the 3rd night of protest the last 2 nights it was very violent and it doesn't look like it's going to be any different this evening there is

a heavy security presence here as well the army is out in force but people here are not just requesting economic support it's beyond gotten out of the people here believe that if ne those in power should have been focusing on carrying out much needed reforms instead of fighting over seats and the next cabinet because this country is still without government and the international community is not ready to bail levanon out to provide much needed financial assistance if there is if there isn't a new government ready to carry out much needed reforms which involve i think corruption zeroes in on how to lives that in tripoli in all of lebanon but he thinks they know . peter frank open as a professor of global history at the university of oxford he joins us now by skype from oxford peter good to have you with us again in parliament today the u.k. as prime minister has said that now is not the time to learn lessons and that a public inquiry would distract officials who are flat out fighting the pandemic is

he right. well as a historian i always think it's important to go your footprints to find out what lessons you can learn but i think it's also i think that to say that when when when you house on fire it's probably more important to be trying to put out the flames than to be thinking about how it started but there's no question that i need to be some very serious questions asked in the u.k. or around the world about how global health works pandemics are a regular feature of world history and you know some of us in the morning that it was a question of when not if the next onward would strike so i think that it's very important that every country works out to be more resilient and robust but i think all in good time in our history just this period in time to think think it's still too early to tell i mean a lot will depend on. if and how we get to the end of this i suspect that in some part of the world particularly richer wealthier more resource countries rollouts

about scenes will take place and that it will take time for the part of the world so that will exacerbate the gaps between the developed and the developing world and i think a lot will depend on the timings a lot will depend on what happens with global financial markets and ability to support and prop up. debts in particular been taken out in all states so i think it's hard but my guess would be that the mortality rates have not actually been that bad i mean if if if coronavirus killed in the same level that the spanish flu had done a 100 years ago we'd be looking at 230000000 people dead around the world which is an astonishing number so i think that the big challenges here are about global cooperation they're about the ability and willingness of states to share best practice and to pull resources warning systems but i think that they need reaction right now will be the world's should have been much more ready for this than it really wants you said last year that the pandemic has revealed a lack of global cooperation nothing has changed since you made that assessment

even though we're in the midst of this the 2nd or 3rd wave. i think generally you know i'm a little bit more upbeat i mean i think the as a global community there are lots of things that we cooperate on pretty well you know lines that ability of people to move around the world trade etc i think we do a pretty good job but there are clearly some major issues where there are real problems about how to align. directions of travel and i think. pandemic and health care is one of those climate very cayley is another one and i think that the concern looking at this is that although the pandemic has been a great shock globally i'm still not sure that the institutional good will i'm not sure that the international cooperation and the ability of people to talk to each other to resolve it will be able to solve those kind of big problems coming towards us around climate and migration around water around the kinds of things that i would be want to be thinking about if i was advising him or governments around the

world that i do but i think it's even the ones where i do get access to policy a lot more should be being done and they should be a lot more joined up thinking always good to talk to professor many thanks indeed to frank about that in oxford. but he more to come on this news hour including new faces to reshape u.s. foreign policy of troops as 2 of joe biden's nominees take center stage today we'll take a look at what it means for the world. security remains tight in the indian capital a day after that major pharmacy process we'll bring you the latest from there. and it's course chelsea's new manager gets the seal of approval from one of his new rivals andy here with that and the rest of the race course a little later. iran is dismissing threats made by israel's military chief of staff lieutenant general

i.v. . v. says that preparations are being made for a possible offensive against iran he's urging u.s. president joe biden not to rejoin the 2015 iran nuclear deal iran's presidential chief of staff described the comments a psychological warfare as we said get out they just talk they are leading a psychological warfare and have practically no plan no capacity and are not able to stop the war our armed forces are trying to defend iran the different maneuvers that we have done are signs that we do not intend to attack nor go to war but that we are serious in defending our country. of a serious also has the latest on iran's reaction from tehran. president hassan rouhani did not directly respond to the threats made by the high ranking israeli official but during his weekly cabinet meeting on wednesday morning he did address the broader issue of where things stand with the remaining signatories of the

nuclear agreement as well as the united states and he highlighted what iran hopes will happen in the coming weeks to make sure that this g. c.p.o. way is still functional and operational as an agreement yet one whole year we waited and listen the europeans made promises which they either couldn't or wouldn't deliver on we then began putting aside some very commitments and if they rejoin the deal we'll do so as well and for an entire year we kept going forward this way but we've always said as soon as you return to deal will return to full compliance the next hour iran has always maintained the position that in order for them to come back into full compliance the other parties that signed on to the deal will have to do the same in light of the fact that the united states left the agreement in 2013 and impose a series of sanctions on iran the iranians then decided to reduce their commitment and the last step that we saw was taken was a bill that was passed in parliament in december which forces the government to

accelerate the country's nuclear program in an attempt to reduce the sanctions that have been imposed on iran the officials have said that they have sped up enrichment levels to 20 percent as of january 5th and the next phase that they will take is by the end of february that will be limiting access to the specter is right now iran has allowed additional protocols under the nonproliferation treaty meaning that specter's can come into the country unannounced and make surprise visits to the facilities but after the end of february where this deadline has been set unless there is some kind of action taken by the united states the iranian officials will then go ahead and limit the access meaning that the i. specters we have to give advance notice and requests to come into iran and visit the nuclear facilities iran says all these steps that they've taken are reversible as soon as these sanctions

are relieved from the country in light of that they are hoping the biden administration will take the heat of warnings to try and remedy the situation and come back to the nuclear agreement as well as lift the sanctions on iran we have correspondents following the story in israel and the u.s. harry force of his life for some west jerusalem just a few moments from let's go to our white house correspondent kelly hell could in washington kelly this puts president biden in a difficult position doesn't it. it does because they recognize that this is not the status quo that they have inherited from the trumpet ministration from when the obama administration and joe biden as vice president left of course the u.s. president donald trump pulling out of the j c p o a and since then the concern being that iran has a mass to stockpile of enriched uranium with the potential to build a nuclear weapon so well iran may be asking to to return to that agreement the

united states feels that now is not the time to do that given the fact they don't believe there is compliance with that agreement so there seems to be a bit of a sticking point here because the feeling of the united states is look let's go back and talk 7 but iran says not until we have these sanctions lifted those very strict sanctions that have hurt the country economically so this is the conundrum that the biden ministration finds itself in so fishley what we're hearing is that they want to take sort of a multinational global approach working with partners and allies including israel to try and resolve this situation and to look for a path forward recognizing that it won't be easy and it's not going to be like when they left cuba how could reporting live there from washington let's go to west jerusalem then have a force that is with us from that area this is a pretty big interest entry into the political fray by israel's top army officer

what can we read into it. and i think it's be interpreted here as mere of a message by the ministration not it is. of any imminent military action or a threat of imminent military action against iran he said to use a new plans are being developed during the course of this year and severely. to take. to take the action required against iran and at the same time saying that as far as he was concerned there was no marriage and even an improved nuclear deal with iran that it was to leave the post open to iran getting a nuclear weapon has been a debate here is to the best way to try to influence the by did ministration it was notable the foreign set foreign minister gabi ashkenazi who spoke after the head of the army at the same security conference said that these sorts of connotations

shouldn't be taking place in the media that it's better to speak quietly privately in a room and that is the nature of the debate should that be a public confrontation between israel's leadership and united states or should they try to lobby in the background this is a way i suppose of the senior political leadership most notably prime minister netanyahu not make any sorts of calls in public leaving it to the top military officer and conveying the same message how does this how a force that live and western wristlet many thanks indeed to harry let's bring in henry mount everest who's seen strategy a political risk consultancy previously served as a state department official she joins us now from a plane the journey out good to have you with us again henry what do you make of these set these threats from these ready ministries chief of staff. well i think there are about 2 things 12 things that have fundamentally changed for the israelis since the trunk administration the 1st is that you have both the new body

ministration here in washington and the rouhani administration in iran both at the same time prepared and determined to pursue diplomacy that's a fundamentally new dynamic that the israelis do not want to happen they're trying to prevent that diplomacy from going forward the 2nd which does not get reported nearly as much as i think it should are the israeli domestic politics particularly for the military the military has seen in israel has seen its budget depleted over the past year by having to help the country contain code that they've caught on their military to do that scene distribution etc and that is really strong the idea of budget so it's very interesting in the general's comments he not only talked about the iran threat but some but spoke even more specifically about the billions of shekels that it's going to require the israeli military to have in the new budget and how much of that the prime minister netanyahu is facing elections in

march now the previous elections that netanyahu had that yahoo has had to face over the past 4 years while trump was in office they were difficult but they were not impossible in part because trump was willing to give netanyahu all sorts of gifts moving the u.s. embassy to jerusalem recognizing israeli ethnics ation of the golan heights well president biden is not going to do that so you have the israelis both on the political side with netanyahu in trouble because they're not in good stead with the by the administration and israel's military with its resources depleted on top of that they have the very real prospect of the united states and iran resuming negotiations at a very high level these are things that the israelis are trying to grapple with and they're doing so by in my view really kind of trumpeting a threat from iran that has not changed in the past several weeks can president biden safely ignore these comments. well the israelis are going to send the head of their mossad their intelligence service to washington next week to meet with

president biden that's really extraordinary for another country to send its intelligence chief to meet with the president of the united states and to be received so certainly that a president biden is going to receive him take it seriously and try to communicate to israel that we take israel's concerns seriously but president biden has been around you know been on this in this movie before for several times he has served at the highest levels of u.s. foreign policy for nearly 4 decades he knows the israeli prime minister bad netanyahu and he knows that when netanyahu came to the united states shortly before the u.s. invasion of iraq netanyahu testified before biden's committee in the senate to say that without a doubt iraq had nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction and in part on that basis biden voted to authorize u.s. invasion of iraq the biggest mistake of his political career so i think that biden will treat them with respect communicate that we take the israeli concerns

seriously but i think biden will also approach it with a healthy dose of skepticism and keep his eye on the ball that the only real way out of this conundrum is through diplomacy good story to get hillary many thanks indeed hillary mann leverett thank you. we're at the midway point and this news just ahead we'll get a weather update then. i'm going to talk about in the french alps where workers resort to all of the not. at its core pakistan's perhaps been the better team in a strong position the 1st test match against south africa. but. we got plenty of rain in the forecast across northern parts of the middle east over the next couple of days not

a cloud showing up through turkey that eastern side of the mediterranean winds picking up here as we go through thursday we'll try to increase the unsettled and blustery showers rattling into syria lebanon jordan just rolling across cyprus through the course of the day i want to show us to just pushing across northern parts of syria into iraq for this line of showery rain down to central areas of the red sea to see some wet weather coming in here just pushing across towards mecca for example wetter weather setting into western iraq as we go through friday still that wet weather there just pushing back across syria a batch was at least inside of the med but to the south of that it's fine and dry some lovely pleasant sunshine here in concept temperatures around 22 celsius some pleasant weather coming through then pleasant weather to across northern parts of somalia chalcis and showers into central africa recall some big downpours there into that eastern side of angola plenty of showers through the democratic republic of congo some wet weather to into zambia and also some other heavy rain for

a time just pushing into botswana the remnants of a ways continue to push eastern parts of south africa in mozambique. criminal drug dealing shifted to places beyond the reach of the way there are many people in afghan government went for a new drug trade guerrilla wars in colombia. and mexico where the cartels have been responsible for a muscle a spiral of violence. the final episode of drug trafficking politics from our territories on al-jazeera. since its inception in 1961 the kuwait fund has been supporting people's livelihoods in over 100 countries by funding projects in an array of sectors. ranging from

infrastructure to health and education. these initiatives ultimately help to eradicate poverty. and promote sustainable development. well again adrian fitting it here in doha with the news out from al-jazeera the headlines the u.k. as prime minister boris johnson has announced tougher restrictions on people entering the country from high risk regions travellers from 20 to red list countries have to hotel quarantine for 10 days apart arrival. security forces in

lebanon of fired water counted the protesters who are angry with the coronavirus locked out meshes hundreds of people have gathered in the open town of tripoli. and iran is dismissing threats made by the israeli military chief of staff who says the preparations are being made for a possible offensive against iran its presidential chief of staff described the comments a psychological warfare. the confirmation hearing for president joe biden's pick for us on bassett's of the u.n. is happening right now in the senate linda thomas greenfield is a career diplomat diplomats with 35 years in the foreign service she was head of african affairs in the obama administration relations between the u.n. and the u.s. were often tense on the former president on will trump thomas creamfields allies hope she can restore america's reputation on the global stage let's bring in our diplomatic editor james space is at the united nations headquarters in new york

james how is linda thomas greenfield viewed at the u.n. . well the u.n. certainly everyone is in new york watching closely i think the events in washington that don't happen to be any important meetings of the u.n. security council today and i believe many ambassadors will be watching the hearing which is started in the last half hour this would be the 5th female ambassador of the united nations in a row but the 1st african-american. to the united nations linda thomas greenfield is a was a career diplomat with a 35 year career and she actually served very briefly under president trump she continued her career and it was actually the trumpet ministration that got rid of her she now is back as a political appointee and is a cabinet level job so she faces the confirmation hearing grilling from senators she as you may remember when she was 1st announced that she was getting this job as

she stood next to president biden she said america is back and certainly she is going to be promoting the idea of engagement with the world the controversial aspect i think which is emerged in the last few hours is a speech she gave over a year ago in october 2019 in which she talked about her previous job as the top diplomat for africa in the state department and said chinese investment in africa backed by the u.s. is involvement in africa could be a win win situation now you know that many senators on capitol hill are very wary of china's involvement in the world and that speech is looking very very controversial right now as she faces this confirmation hearing i have to say though the republican senator jim or issue is chairing this meeting says we're not going to hold one bad speech against you but she is going to get a grilling on the speech and she already has given her views with regard to china

saying that she does believe that china is playing a negative role that the united nations and she wants to push back on that adrian diplomatic editor james bay is reporting live there from the united nations many thanks james. russia's lower house has ratified an extension to its nuclear arms control pact with the united states it's the last remaining arms control agreement between the 2 nations after donald trump withdrew from 2 others during his new president joe biden proposed a 5 year extension the deal was due to expire in about a week well here's a closer look at the pact known as the new starter code it was signed in 2010 by then u.s. president barack obama and the former russian leader dimitri medvedev it limits each country to an equal number of deployed nuclear warheads missiles and all those it also covers sweeping on site inspections to verify compliance with russia had

originally offered to extend it for 5 years that donald trump of been pushing for major changes surely no one is a lecturer in politics and international relations at university college london she says that both countries are eager to keep the pact. this was the last nonproliferation treaty between russia and the us it was set to expire next week i'm february 5th so there was urgency behind it obviously with nuclear weapons a nuclear agreement the whole idea is to be protecting against long term risks but the fact that this agreement went forward is notable it is important and it's important both russia and the u.s. to put this out it from the beginning that they don't want the arms race to accelerate any further it's the kremlin reached out to the biden team last week saying they would like to have this conversation it did take place we've heard that it was put in quote frank which means there was probably a pretty direct conversation going back and forth but it did take place and what we

understand and what you would expect from the biden administration is saying look we will take any action necessary to protect u.s. interests but we're also not looking to provoke or looking for a fight and we will cooperate on areas where there is mutual interest like the new start treaty like. the iran nuclear deal and other as a mutual concern. india's government just type in security in new delhi after an unprecedented day of protests by tens of thousands of follow us police and tell you say that bolden 200 people have been detained in connection with tuesday's violence and they warn that more arrests could follow. i on reports. the large protest is over but the tension lingers in the indian capital farmers who rallied against the government's new agricultural laws are gone removed from new delhi's famous landmark the red fort instead of demonstrators and now there are additional soldiers guarding the city and the barrier but the protesters are nearby

planning their next move there back in the outskirts of the capital where many have camped for the last 2 months the day after the violence their demands still stand the farmers want the government to repeal 3 laws that they say will eliminate subsidies and ruin their livelihoods i did because it says the protest was a success there were a few incidents of violence reported but the rest was peaceful the government will have to listen to us we willingly came to protest it's the right of every citizen. tens of thousands of farmers broke to police barricades and marched to the center of the capital on tuesday as a country marked republic day the now damaged property scattered throughout is a reminder of how quickly things can get out of control police say more than 300 officers were injured. with we were deployed to the red fort when people started

breaking through we tried to remove them but they became aggressive we didn't want to use force against farmers so we exercised as much restraint as possible the farmers say the government of prime minister narendra modi is highlighting incidents of violence to undermine their movement. you'll be him said we don't support the incidence of violence happened at red fort we condemned. it's not our objective and it should not have happened it impairs the movement and we regret that. with negotiations at a standstill security is on high alert the farmers say they plan to march to india's parliament building next week when the government is scheduled to present its annual budget cuts hello priscilla yan al-jazeera. forest fire. clearance are creating an environmental crisis a strain according to new evidence the country's leaders and the pressure to come up with fresh policies to protect biodiversity. reports from south brooklyn state

forest in new south wales. strains bush land is still recovering from the black some of fires that ripped through the land a year ago blackening 35000000 head days and killing more displacing nearly 3000000000 animals soon after logging was restarted the fire affected state for. many plant spaces and almost all animals they simply can't deal with that double disturbance in rapid succession and that makes. for logging. detrimental for logging. harvesting standards would tighten up to the fires but in the south broome and state forest local spend evidence of bloggers breaching may last since allegedly cutting down large hollow bearing trees which provide crucial shelter for threatened species or thirty's or investigating but activists have continued their campaign to end logging in the region we were

shocked we were just shocked that that level of noncompliance was going on and that farce to corporation itself picked up the new south wales forestry corporation says its operations are sustainable and carefully managed with forests regenerating after being logged but as the climate hates up so too has debate on the future of logging and how it's trial years more broadly managing its land the world wildlife fund has listed a strongly a as i global hope support for de forest station with the land being cleared mainly for agriculture and farming whether it's land clearing for farming or logging in state forests like this one many environmentalists believe if a strike is serious about action on climate change it needs to rethink how it manages its bush land and forests or they warn habitats and risk of a reparable that. recent research is also found evidence that logging native forest

is making 5 is motha via from debris left behind and forests are important sources of carbon storage vital for g c emissions that's the greatest source of carbon sink mature trees without them. what are we going to what are we going to do with this trial inlaid is under pressure to address climate change the question will be how the nation manages its land while also balancing business interests. broome and state forest. horses are a way of life in the mountainous region of central asia they've been for have a bike climbs and obvious for centuries but as charles trafford reports now from kyrgyzstan the status and use of horses is changing. at the foot of the chance shaun mountains cuties farmers guide their horses towards fields where the snow is less deep so they can graze horses from this region were 4

to over prized by nomad clans invading armies and russian settlers for centuries to farmers like bucket of they are a source of wealth cultural identity and national pride. movies together a movie. is the killer gives man's right hand regionally norma we discovered no less is writing all this is like the drink the milk and it's the i meet horses mean so much for our culture. each of these animals is worth around $2000.00 protecting them from mountain predators can be a challenge especially this time of year. award so this winter has been very bad for attacks by wolves for horses in the village of being killed off. for the farmer the hardy indigenous breeds of horses remain fundamental to their working lives but they also breed them with animals from europe and one of the reasons is a desire for victory you know nationals or. the game of. demands

a horse not only be strong why does wrestle over a goat congress have to drop the animal into a school zone to win points. can and so does a cool over who's been competing for 4 years he's a horse called nick meaning colonel in english is a killer european mixed breed a bit of the bunny but it if you mean them to be idle and fast there's a lot of horses with physical ability but they get scared they also can be too tall because we need to bend them down the good carcass. russian settlers were the 1st to mix curtis with european breeds when they came to this region in the mid 19th century there is now increasing interest among stump farmer almost like vector shop knockoff to breed european horses specifically for racing he breeds imported into shanah ml's which cost me around $50000.00 to transport from the u.k.

. the very thought of them the more we feed the difficulties of raising pure foreign breeds as you need better quality pasture and fight amends they're not used to harsh winters it's much more challenging and expensive. pull seas are a way of life in this mountainous region of central asia the for bucket and his fellow herd is they mean more than the money and prestigious. al-jazeera norden killer storm. still to come here on the news i will have details of a new plan that aims to keep this year's olympic flame burning and here with that and the rest of the sport in a few minutes. well

i guess the winter sports industry in france has been hit hard by the pandemic and as a 3rd national lockdown looms ski resorts may remain closed for the rest of the season the french winter sports industry employs 400000 people and brings in some $12000000000.00 this serious attention reports now from the french alps. spectacular views and abundant powdery snow in the french alpine resort of flying but few visitors or skiers to enjoy either the french government's decision to keep lifts closed across the country until at least the end of february because of kind of it has dealt a crushing blow to the winter tourist industry and its workers frederick gasnier has relied on the ski season in flint for work for nearly 2 decades this year he was supposed to operate

a lift instead he's an employed. we just don't understand at all resorts have put in place special sanitary measures against coded so that people can come but we're told we have to stay shut financially it's catastrophic for all the workers the government says that opening lifts would encourage crowds at a time when cases of the more contagious covert strains are rising but without lifts skiing is out of the question for most only the very determined to hike up for a downhill run. the alpine ski industry is the backbone of our winter economy it's hard for us to survive without the lifts and the economy link to them of course we have other sports like cross-country skiing and sledging but 90 percent of our february income is from skiing without it we'll make half that this would normally be paid season here inflame the resort would be packed with tourists many from abroad and the slopes would be busy with skiers and snowboarders instead it feels

eerily empty on the main square restaurants and balls the shots are under covert restrictions this hotel is one of the only ones open but the manager wonders for how long is the government is considering a 3rd full lockdown one of its leaders on the eve of the hippos we just need answers precise deadline so we can organize because we have 30 seasonal workers here and we want to know if we'll have enough work for them until the end of the season we're not complaining about the government's decision but we need to be able to plan months. of uncertainty little business and the looming lockdown people here say resorts like plane will need government aid to survive without it tens of thousands of workers will be left out in the cold natasha butler al jazeera. time for sport here's andy thank you so much age and all the international olympic committee meeting right now to discuss its next moves ahead of this year's tokyo games i think i.o.c. and local organizers denying reports that the games are set to be cancelled due to

coronavirus instead a so-called playbook due to be released next week explaining how thousands of athletes will be able to arrive and compete safely in japan the international paralympic committee remain confident that their games can also take place and same event could happen even if all competitors haven't been vaccinated it's paralympics due to start at the end of august we've got a plan for the worst case scenario the worst case scenario is that no one in the world turned in the games is vaccinated ahead of the games if we can believe the planned lives the games with. there were really stronger position if say half the population who comes to the games has been vaccinated ok joining is now from washington d.c. is huff post reporter travis waldron travis great to have you want to go what kind of assurances do athletes and national olympic association is need at this point because in theory they could take this out of the r.c.s.

hands and refuse to go. well i think the obvious assurances they need are that the athletes and everyone else who travels as part of a national epic body it's this going to be safe on the ground in japan but it's not just the olympic committees that need a shared sense i think the people of japan also probably meet assurances that. the country can can bring in hundreds of thousands and thousands of people into the country and keep everyone safe not just the athletes not just the organizers not just the people involved at the olympics but ensure that that they don't spread the virus from other countries into japan and into the communities around tokyo as well and one member of the organizing committee called to sign the games need some public support from president biden. is he likely to talk about it and would that help. well i think obviously the reason that they they would like support from

president biden is obvious the united states since the biggest contingent of people to the games both athletes and you know sponsors everything else and also has the biggest t.v. contract so so the united states participation and support for the games is vital to keeping that mine and keeping them going. i don't i wouldn't expect any big statement or move from the president right now there i can't imagine that a tie on his priority list given that the united states is still in the midst of its own outbreak and his focus with regard to cope at 19 days ramping up the vaccination process here in the states and across the country i mean does it fail is that they are going through the motions they have to be sane to be trying to get these gangs on but said because i stand so many so much money if they are actually cold often night i can't be seen to be making that final decision. i think that's right i don't think anyone wants to call these off because of the money involved

reuters had a report this morning that insurers would lose $2.00 to $3000000000.00 if the olympics were canceled tokyo and japan have already spent upwards of $15000000000.00 on the olympics probably more than that when it's all said and done i don't think anyone wants to be responsible for making this decision because of the money involved but at the same time the i.o.c. the organizers and in japan and every national epic committee involved in this has a responsibility to the people of japan and to the rest of the world to ensure that this can be done safely and if it can not do it because ultimately at the end of the day it's not worth it if if it can't be done safely and at this point it's still pretty hard to conceive of the way that it can be done safely. without massive gains in vaccinations and huge drops in the number of cases in japan but

other parts of the world china swelled and joining us there from washington d.c. from the huff post thanks so much travis as ever thank you now bussmann photo i'm led pakistan's fight with a century on day 2 of the 1st test against south africa a 35 year old smushing 109 karate to help the home side reach 3 $198.00 at the close pakistan it started the day in big trouble on $33.00 for a full they now have a 1st things lead of $88.00 going in it's a day 3 but australia are expected to toll south africa next month of dates and venues yet to be confirmed england's one day international series in the country had to be postponed in december after an unnamed south african player and see how it's helped staff members contract covered inside the sames by secure hub cricket australia number of issues still need to be resolved. we made it to the people here we've got a role. helping international groups that continue to be the line during the autumn

. but we are monitoring the life. with. medical waste the liverpool manager at your club says chelsea have appointed a great manager in fellow german psalmists officially confirmed as chelsea's new boss lights on cheese day the former pace she had coached immediately holding his 1st training session he'll be in the dugout for the premier league game against walls at lights or on cycle succeeded clock at both mines and doormen in germany he's now replacing frank one party left that same night in the table after a run of just one win in 5 league games almost all of his is a great unforced really really good. manager and so. long and respect him a lot and. know. there's jealousies qualities are present there so and i'm pretty sure thomas sees it like that and so. they will be good. ok from in a couple of hours that is it for now. at

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