some of the world's most powerful scientists speak out. on a. really understand the difference in. cultures across the world so no matter what you see the news and current affairs that matter to. 'd the. people in lebanon poorest city tripoli show that anger for a 2nd bite over a failing economy made worse by a pandemic block to. get adrian for the get here and this is al-jazeera also coming up it is illegal. to leave to travel abroad but there's

a sense britain's prime minister announces tough restrictions on travel out of out into the u.k. to try to stop the influx of new strains of the coronavirus. russian m.p.'s approved the extension of the only remaining arms treaty with the u.s. a week before it was due to expire. at the incredible story of the gaming retail company game stop and how it shares went through the roof thanks to a group of day traders. so let's start in lebanon where right now in the old city of tripoli protesters are again facing off with security forces people are angry over a lockdown measures which come at a time when the city and the rest of the country have suffered to choose a desperate economic situation al-jazeera is in a hold up is that in tripoli she joins us now live what's happening zana.

well the 3rd day of violence you can see right behind me security forces are you think tear gas to try to disperse the crowds corey it is a big star because there will be a few 100 protesters gathered in the main square of lebanon 2nd largest city it is also lebanon's most impoverished city were at least 60 percent of the population are now jobless these people believe that the core coronavirus the lock down should have been forced. provided to them by the authorities they haven't received any assistance in the poor in lebanon on there is no social security net for them so there is a lot of anger people have returned to the streets and but this is not just the corona virus lockdown this city was poor before the pandemic was the tech. in lebanon and this city. really the poverty is on power of those. we have to remember more than

a year ago the economy of lebanon collapsed there was an economic collapse a financial meltdown more than 50 percent of the population now live below the poverty line and one 3rd of the workforce is jobless so the statistics really tell you how serious the crisis is sorry we are walking away from the square because of the smell of the tear gas to be able to speak but you can hear that is the sound of live ammunition. this it's been the 3rd night of violence we've seen scenes like this over the past year. the anger is not just people here are not just calling for economic support during the coronavirus lockdown what they want is a new leadership they believe those in power are the people who have been governing this country for decades they should leave power and allow for a new government to be formed in fact there is no government in lebanon there is only a caretaker government in place politicians are arguing amongst themselves on who

gets what ministry instead of coming up with a government that is accepted by the international community because this country is in dire need of an international financial bailout and that cannot happen if those in power refuse to fight corruption so people hear this is not just about the coronavirus lock down about economic support during these difficult times the people here believe there should be a change in leadership and it's not just in tripoli it's across the country as well but it is important to to mention that they still have they don't have enough numbers in the streets to be able to change the balance of power from the street it's an extension of the protests we saw in beirut then last year in terms of economic help people expecting from the government because the country is essentially bankrupt. yes the state is bankrupt there has been 3 lock downs in the past and on previous occasions the

government provided 230000 families with 400000 lebanese pounds that's an equivalent of less than 50 dollars at the black market rate during those 3 lock downs this time around they did not do that but even the last time they dispersed the funds there were a lot of questions on who receive the funds the way they selected the families many believe that supporters of the government were the ones who benefited from that cash assistance this time around no cash assistance and nobody is under the illusion that this government is able to give. give out money because like you mentioned it's corrupt but what people want is for those in power to agree to a new government in order for lebanon to receive billions of dollars in aid to unlock billions of dollars in aid in order for them to kick start the economy

a financial meltdown an economic meltdown there's also a health crisis this is why living along has been under the strictest lockdown one of the strictest lockdowns a 24 hour curfew with only the essential workers able to venture out of their homes but i can tell you we've been in the city for a few hours since the since the morning and compliance with the lockdown was very weak and everybody we asked you know what are you doing they said if we don't work we can't feed our children a lot of people here are informal and formal workers so for them they know that if there's a health risk involved they are there on the street this is a government building but the problem is if we do our conduct the rection i wouldn't be able to breach to talk to you but what they're trying to do is storm the government building and the army is using tear gas to try to disperse the crowds and then we can see. from another camera in tripoli

protesters setting fires that that's why the army and the security forces are taking such a heavy handed approach to these these demonstrators that it. it wouldn't be the 1st time that the security forces have been accused of using heavy handed tactics ever since what people here call their uprising began in october 2019 now usually the army issued statements after the protest saying that we had no other choice because we will not allow people to destroy public or private property but a lot of human rights organizations really have criticized the security personnel for shooting at close range rubber coated bullets for beating up protestors they've released a lot of intimidation tactics over the last year or so in fact they've briefly detained the activists that what they tried to do really is scare people prevent

people from taking to the streets and i can tell you we've been speaking to a lot of activists since so over the past 24 hours to see whether or not we're going to see protests like these and other cities and they say well what does it bring we can't change the balance of power we are met by by a militarized state and we can't do much plus the corona virus the virus is spreading and i cannot tell you how many cases on a daily basis between 400-5000 cases and this is a small nation 5000000 people since january the 1st till today that's less than a month's 100000 new cases for a country like lebanon that is very high for a country which health sector was already crumbling before the pandemic doctors are screaming for help and that's why they're saying you need to lock down you need to lock down the country but at the same time you can't lock down the country without providing a people with with some sort of agent to survive. al-jazeera said to hold

a reporting live there from tripoli in the lebanon that he thinks did set up. the u.k.'s private us abreast johnson has announced tough new restrictions on people entering and leaving the country because of new variants of the coronavirus he's been under growing pressure as a lab of infections and death support the country to a virtual crisis point i want to make clear that under the state home regulations it is illegal to leave home to travel abroad for measure purposes and we will inforce this at ports and airports by asking people why they're leaving and instructing them to return home if they do not have a valid reason to travel we have also banned all travel from $22.00 countries where there is a risk of known variants including south africa portugal and south american nations

and in order to reduce the risk posed by u.k. nationals and residents returning home from these countries i can announce that we will require all such arrivals who cannot be refused entry to isolate in government provided accommodation such as hotels for 10 days without exception let's get more information now about who will be impacted by these new entry rules in the u.k. from al-jazeera story challenges at gatwick airport just outside london. anyone entering the country from a certain number of countries a selection of countries that have basically be been put on a red list because they are countries that have potential new strains or no new strains of corona virus circulating there and the u.k. does not want those strains arriving on british so essentially what the government has just done boris johnson and then proceed to tell outlined this in the commons

saying that. there are bands already in place on people arriving from these countries. but there are also people in those countries who are u.k. residents or british his 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 gatwick will be throw airports all their 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 u.k. has borders a 2 open at the moment. the opposition party labor has said that this is a half baked policy and that it wants to see these kind of restrictions placed on anyone who's coming into the country not just from certain parts of the world iran is dismissing threats made by israel's military chief of staff in turn a general a cook harvey 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 psychological warfare. on you has they just dark they are leading a psychological warfare and have practically no plan no capacity and are not able to start a 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 and defending our country. later this hour the new u.s. secretary of state will be sworn in at a ceremony by vice president. and the blinken was officially sworn into office on tuesday at the state department he's promised to rebuild relationships with america's allies and move it away from the america 1st policy which dominated president trumps of ministration for more on this let's go live to washington a white house correspondent kelly how good is that for

a so what sort of difference will answer the blinken make particularly in the story we were we were talking about moments or moments ago with iran being threatened by israel's military chief of staff. yeah so there are let's put this into 2 little baskets here big baskets actually. first of all in terms of anthony blinken and his swearing in on the job already has made a series of international phone calls and also made a very important address that is to the staff this is something that we typically see from new secretaries of state as they dress the diplomatic corps and this one was watched very carefully for its tone its tenor because there was this eagerness from the diplomatic corps that during the trumpet ministration actively push back against the america 1st policy to see that there was going to be a commitment to this partnership of working with america's allies and that was the

assurance that they got as anthony blinken spoke he promised to rebuild morale he promised to rebuild trust and he also promised that there would be a new approach particularly on a number of key issues promising a harder line on russia we heard from his confirmation hearings we also know that he will be reviewing north korea policy feeling that this got worse under the trumpet ministration but also saying when it came to china when it came to even the abraham accords that he thought that these were good things but the tactics were right now to your 2nd part of the question there with regard to the u.s. position right now with respect to iran and the concerns that are being raised by israel this is already becoming front and center a key and important issue for this administration and it's finding that it is having some difficulties given the fact that joe biden was in office 4 years ago

before donald trump and a lot has changed since he's come back namely that there are now very tough economic sanctions in place with respect to iran and also it's not going to be as a result easy to just snap back to the j c p a. a that agreement to limit iran's nuclear program given the fact the u.s. believes it's no longer compliant with that pact in other words that it has essentially been amassing a rich uranium so that it can build a nuclear weapon so in short what the united states is saying right now is look we want to get there we want to speak with iran but iran saying not until we have these sanctions removed that are hurting our economy so badly so anthony blinken the new secretary of state has a lot on his plate already rolling up his sleeves to dig into this issue and already a lot of pressure but what we're hearing is that in contrast to the donald trump administration it's america 1st approach its hard line tactics this will be a very different tone from this administration one the of engagement with partners

and allies i was in this committee how could reporting live from washington could leave many thanks indeed. the confirmation hearing for president joe biden's pick for the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. is happening right now in congress linda thomas greenfield is a career diplomat with 35 years in the foreign service she was head of african affairs in the obama administration relations between the u.s. of the u.s. will often tense of the former president donald trump thomas creamfields allies hope that she can restore america's reputation on the global stage. got a weather update next here on al-jazeera that security remains tight in india's capital day after a major protest against new farming laws as the government that figures out its next move. of the tide is rising around climate change the survey shows more people see it as a global approach and saying. it's

time for the perfect jenny. the winter storm suit point at ways how are they snow cloud sagaing once again for japan because troy weather at the moment writes the snow pulling out of the way here so not seep out as we go on through thursday but you can see where the next ever when she weather will tumble and that's going to slide this way out so that all thiessen cona all of china are rolling across the sea of japan and pushing towards a whole issue very heavy snow most see effect snow coming in here dumping huge amounts and as we go on through friday that will cause some disruption and i'll call it i will say seeing a fair bit of snow as well not seep out in tokyo sheltered by the mountains of course for the southeast multipath coming in behind it is quite down a crisp minus 4 celsius in the sunshine therefore so on friday cool enough in hong

kong at temperatures at around 18 degrees celsius and cooling off across northern parts of india towards pakistan as well more mist and folk problems coming in here 18 in the hole $21.00 there in new delhi little bit of building cloud just around the eastern side of india chance of want to showers into addition for a time but by far the wettest weather will be into sri lanka more heavy downpours coming in here as we go on through friday that rain really setting in possibly some localized flooding with a chance of showers there for tumble not to. sit at ways. well again this is al-jazeera

a reminder of the baby news this hour protesters are again facing off with security forces in lebanon's northern city of tripoli they're angry over coronavirus lockdown measures which are impacting an already desperate economic situation. the u.k.'s announced the restrictions on travel out of and into the country to try to stop the influx of new strains of the coronavirus people entering from high risk countries will have to quarantine that hotel accommodation for 10 days. israel syria military commander says that he's all of his forces to speed up preparations for possible military action against iran is also urging u.s. president joe biden against rejoining the iran nuclear deal. india's government has tightened security in new delhi after an unprecedented day of protests by tens of thousands of farmers police in delhi say that more than 200 people have been detained in connection with tuesday's violence and they warn that more arrests could follow the telepaths hayat 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. but the protestors 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 so 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 probe. test it's the right of every citizen the 10s of thousands of farmers broke to police barricades and marched to the center of the capitol 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. 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. big job to him said we don't support the incidence of violence happened at red fort we condemned them 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. farmers say they plan to march to india's parliament building next week when the government is scheduled to present its annual budget cuts here locally so the young al-jazeera russia house of parliament

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 term in president joe biden had proposed a 5 year extension the deal was to expire in about a week alexander got fought reports now from moscow. this has been done basically in the last minute to extend the last standing nuclear arms control deal between these 2 countries now russia is saying it is done on our terms which in essence is the true sense of what they insisted on at the that since the countries could not agree during the presidency on the 3 d. at least of the existing one is prolonged and without additional conditions and that is exactly what is happening now and they are showing also in relation to

the us russia relations some optimism some hope but they are very very very cautious what they are saying or the deputy minister of foreign affairs said is that they see biden as more inclined to have a responsible and comprehensive negotiation on this issue than the associates of trump showed. videogame retailer game stop has read it uses to thank for a soaring share price despite sluggish growth at a poor outlook investors posting on the reddit page wall street bets a bit aggressively pushing others to buy game stop stoke it's reached as high as $354.00 that's a 400 percent jump on the week and 70 times what it was worth in august however it uses pull off this market cool in recent months a lot of investors bet against games don't shorting the stock maybe they thought it

was over values and decided to borrow the stock sell it then repurchase it at a lower price and pocket the difference as profits or game stop investors realized that large hedge funds were doing this and so using reddit called for people to fault the plan by buying the stock on mass this increased the price and created a short squeeze where hedge funds were forced to buy the stocks to avoid massive losses for the pushing up game stop shares movie theater operator amc is also heavily short its don't book current be experiencing a huge surge of the hype online. is the founder of the weldon sub read it well wall street bets and author of wall street bets how bloomers made the world's biggest casino for millennia he joins us now live from mexico city jamie it's good to have you with us so this isn't about investing in a great company it's more about giving hedge funds and institutional investors

a bloody nose right. well it's a little bit about everything we've seen in the last year is a lot of retail investors going into the market and participating in a way that is just not traditional so this could be what we're seeing now which is to give the funds a bloody nose but also just having fun and really going in and out of stocks and going in and out of stock options and the really quick way hope open to make a lot of money is it what do you think anybody about this what should we know about new investors specifically millennial well you know it's difficult to tell is there certainly some high profile people that have made. a lot of money so for sure you can find success stories that way but it is difficult to pin out exactly what prices people are going in and out of and since they're using stock options that adds an additional layer of complexity but it would appear as if anyone who is bullish or long game stop is going to be doing better off than anybody the short

game stop that's for sure and just just sort of go this what options you talk about that's that's where you don't necessarily have to own the share but you can still buy and sell it yep that's correct and what they're actually doing is they're taking advantage of an asymmetry with money options a lot of people to take a little bit of money it could be you know $100.00 or a $1000.00 and by selecting certain expiration date and strike price they can force other people to buy the stocks for them for all the participants in the markets of course we're talking about a short squeeze it also forces anyone who's short the stock have to cover those stocks by buying them and further pushing up the price so how much higher could game stop go what happens when it when it's over sell when it when it when it's going as high as it's going to. i mean lots of people would argue that it's been oversold or over bought for the entire week and there's seems to be no end in sight

you know the be honest with you this doesn't have to do with fundamentals everyone's pretty open about that and what we're seeing here is the result of having a massive influx of retail traders who don't care about fundamentals never really have cared about fundamentals they cared about the short term moves so in theory in the short term anything is possible i mean the price is set based on supply and demand in there at this point anyone who's just buying up the stocks is further putting pressure to raise the price jamie has been great to talk to you many thanks indeed for being with us here al-jazeera thank you for having me and i think i just about understood all that to the u.s. at oakford university have conducted the largest have a survey on climate change they found 64 percent of people recognize that it's a global emergency they polled $1200000.00 people from 50 countries on the attitudes towards climate change and how they'd like their governments to respond of those polled the most concerned were in the u.k.

and italy but the general trend showed the higher the level of someone's education the more worried they are in every country more young people and old people believe there is a climate emergency of all that hoff of respondents on their governments to conserve forests and land to invest in renewable energy from climate friendly farming methods and create green jobs stephen fisher is co-author of the report also an associate professor of political sociology at the university of oxford he says the survey threw up many surprises. the most surprising and perhaps important finding for me is that of all the 18 different climate policies we asked about people willing to pick as many as 8 on average and that number went up to 10 in some of the high income high education countries and even as high as 12 in in a few countries even those who didn't think that climate change was

a global emergency who don't use that term still they want climate action still they pick 6 that's a 3rd of the 18 policies we asked about and those policies are over wide variety of different things nature and a-g. the economy transport farms and food protecting people and one of the top 4 policies is investing in green industry and jobs and that's going to be particularly important as countries start thinking about economic postcode recovery plans and wanting to make those environmentally friendly and this show that survey shows that there's demand right across the globe to make this postcode recovery a and environmentally friendly one of the 2nd day fires burning large areas of forest in southern teed up the cause of the blaze is not yet known but 2020 was the country's driest in 15 years already $6000.00 hectares of been destroyed in rio

negro province it's an area popular with tourists close to patagonia or the border with chile. it is good to have you with us hello adrian filling in here in doha the headlines from al-jazeera protesters are again facing off with security forces in lebanon still the city of tripoli they're angry over the crew a crew in a virus lockdown measures which are impacting an already desperate economic situation i'm serious anucha is there a 3rd day of violence you can see right behind me security forces are you think your gas to try to disperse the crowd or even for this.