if you want to help save the world. cup. more anger on the streets of lebanon's poorest city tripoli over a failing economy made worse by a coronavirus lockdown. and schools to stay shut and stricter rules for travelers the u.k.'s prime minister announces new measures to fight the coronavirus pandemic . favorite for good this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. iran dismisses

an israeli generals warning of a possible offensive a psychological warfare. and 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. we start there in lebanon where right now and all them city of tripoli protesters are again facing off with security forces people that are angry over a lockdown measures which should come at a time when the city and the rest of the country suffered from a desperate economic situation let's go live to tripoli al-jazeera zana harder is that so you know what's the situation there now. well the 3rd night of violence security forces the few 100 protesters clashing out side one of the main government buildings just around the corner. this is one of the

main squares in lebanon 2nd largest city it is also lebanon's most impoverished city people have been taking to the streets again and we say again because the economic crisis is not new but many people here told us that the coronavirus lockdown that has been in force which is now in its 3rd week is making their lives even more difficult it's an added burden to their to their struggles and they want the authorities to compensate them or to provide them with some sort of financial assistance in order to survive many of the people here many of them are in former labor they don't have any social safety nets and of course no government assistance so they're telling us if we don't work we don't eat we kept feed feed our children the government is calling on the people to be patience and the government says it will provide for the most vulnerable at this. during the past

3 left lockdowns in the past over the past year but even that amount of aid was it was not enough for the people so people here say they're desperate they're hungry the growing poverty really is pushing them to return to the streets. sentiment i think steve i was there is that one of the reporting live from tripoli in northern lebanon. in the u.k. prime minister boris 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 to use a rising number of due to the rising number of infections and deaths i want to make clear that under the state home regulations it is illegal. to leave her to travel abroad from that says and we will enforce this. i dare spy asking people why they. 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 more detail on the whole being impacted by these new entry rules from house arrest warrant challen says 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 use

strains of corona virus circulating there and the u.k. does not want those strains arriving on british was 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 too open at the moment. the opposition party labor has said that this is a half baked policy and that it wants to see these gun restrictions placed on

anyone who's coming into the country not just from certain parts of the world south africa has approved astra zeneca covert 19 vaccine for emergency use which is expected to be available later this month it's paying $5.00 to $0.25 per dose for one of the half 1000000 shots of the vaccine that's more than twice the amount paid by most european countries south africa has recorded over a 1000000 infections making it the worst hit on the continent a 38 year old nurse has become the 1st person to get the covert 19 banks seen in bangladesh the campaign began in the capital city with mass and occupation expected to begin next month talvi a child reports from dhaka. the 1st person to be vaccinated in bangladesh is a 38 year old nars veronique out cost now 12 other people in this hospital general hospital has been vaccinated all of them are emergency 1st responder

there's a plan to vaccinate at least 5 to 600 more people across the capital city today what has been time as a vaccine diplomacy the government right now has 7000000 doses of vaccine oxford estrogenic made by pharmaceutical company institute off india $2000000.00 of those vaccines were actually donated by the indian government the government planned to stop mass vaccination program next month probably in the 1st week at least $1200.00 people mostly foster responded will be vaccinated in phase is not that dissimilar a lot according to critics in a country over a population of 165000000 as well as 1000000 refugees living in southeastern part of the country my mother suffered quite a bit of economic slowdown when they went into a lockdown last year but the government took a strategic decision to open up the country there's a sense of normalcy in the country most of the businesses shops and government

offices are open other than the school everything is open people are walking all about but they're cautious they're wearing masks and taking necessary precautions iran is dismissing threats made by israel's military chief of staff lieutenant general he says the preparations are being made for a possible offensive against iran he says when 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. they just leading to 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 signs that we do not intend to attack nor go to war but that we are serious in 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 lincoln 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 administration for more let's go live to washington a white house correspondent kimberly how could is that for so blinken is going to start the job with a pretty full in trade. there's no question as we await the ceremonial swearing in that anthony blanket his new secretary of state has a lot on his plate there's obviously been tension over the last 4 years between the united states and some of its key allies on a number of different issues and so he's going to have to address all of that well also confronting the issues what we do know from the indications that we've had so far from anthony blinken as he spoke to staff members at the state department is that he. has

a completely different view on some issues in contrast to the top administration and others he shares in the sort of end state but the methods he disagreed with let me give you some examples he believes that there needs to be a harder line in russia than we saw in the last 4 years a review of north korea policy which he believes got worse under the trumpet ministration but 7 when it comes to china he agrees with the trumpet restraints and the tough tone but not the tactics and also is supportive of the abraham accords that warming of relations between israel and some arab nations but what we're watching very carefully adrian is how he will handle iran specifically the escalating tensions that we've seen with israel could the fact that the administration believes that it is necessary to see the j.c. peel away or that agreement to limit iran's nuclear program that the trumpet ministration pulled out of that there's

a need to get back to that the problem is so much has changed namely that there have been very tough economic sanctions that were put in the last 4 years and that's left iran in kind of a power position with this new administration saying look it we want all of these sanctions to be lifted if we're going to have any sort of discussions on resuming this. sort of agreement of this pact in the united states is saying we can't lift those sanctions unless we see compliance with that previous agreement so the official word that we're getting from the biden ministrations it's going to work closely with its partners and allies but again underscoring the fact that some of those relationships have been hurt the last 4 years so accomplishing that goal is going to be much more difficult kimberly how could reporting live from washington but he thanks kimberly 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. and the u.s. we're also intense of the former president donald trump thomas greenfields allies hope that she can restore america's reputation on the global stage. we're going to weather updates next here on al-jazeera then part of a process a vote of no confidence in the democratic republic of congo forcing the government to collapse we'll tell you why. i'm not in the french alps where work is the resort fee for bed julep. we got plenty of writing the full cost across northern parts of the middle east

over the next couple of days not a cloud sharing out through turkey that eastern side of the mediterranean winds picking up here as we go through thursday will 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 as 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 what's the 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 in tries a lovely pleasant sunshine here in concept temperatures around 22 celsius some pleasant weather coming through then pleasant weather to across northern parts of somalia a chance to send showers into central africa recall some big downpours there in so that's eastern side of angola probably a 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 tropical sidemen eloise continue to push the eastern parts of south africa in mozambique. frank assessments you've got colleagues on the ground in the canaries what is the situation there's only one doctor and one nurse or $2200.00 people informed opinions how big does foreign policy they get in the early stages of a bi ministration he comes into office for the huge amount of foreign policy experience in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines how will a place like it live get the vaccine when there's no money at all the rest of rich countries are fighting for an inside story on al jazeera.

hello again this is al jazeera the main news this hour security forces in lebanon a 5 water cannon the protesters are angry over coronavirus lockdown meshes hundreds of people have gathered in tripoli. the u.k.'s prime minister boris johnson has announced tougher restrictions on people entering the country from high risk regions travellers from 20 to red list countries will have to hotel quarantine for 10 days. and iran is dismissing threats made by the israeli military chief of staff who says that preparations are being made for a possible offensive against iran its presidential chief of staff described the comments a psychological warfare. the democratic republic of congo's parliament has passed a vote of no confidence to oust the prime minister and his government seen as

a political victory for president felix just a keda let's go live now to nairobi outas us malcolm webb can tell us more malcolm what's this all about. well this is the latest development in a power struggle between president felix difficulty and former president joseph kabila that has been going on for just over or about 2 years so just over 2 years ago congress held elections president joseph kabila on the international and local pressure stepped aside he ruled beyond the constitutional term limits and he made way felix just a k.t. was announced the winner but league documents showed that that election result was rigged and the succession was widely understood to be a deal between the 2 men by which she said he would take over the presidency but kabila would remain as the most powerful person in congo not just a case he depended on the support of kabila as party to govern could be left party

had a majority in parliament but the tensions of have clearly risen between the 2 men over the course of the last 2 years and to security in recent weeks has managed to get a lot of those m.p.'s over to his side that for and it was enabled him to push through this vote of no confidence in prime minister sylvester a longer he's a kabila loyalist so it looks now that she's a cat he has indeed taken control of parliament and the government finally from from joseph kabila his predecessor but certainly by no means do we expect this to be the end of the struggle all right so what happens next. well the prime minister is due to complete the process by submitting a letter of resignation if he does that then after that to succeed he could appoint a new prime minister and a new cabinet presumably he would put in loyalists to take power away from his previous ethical below and bring things over to his side but there's also

constitutionally now a possibility that he can dissolve parliament because prime minister didn't even come to parliament today and he has a breakdown between the prime minister and the government then he has a constitutional right to dissolve parliament that means new elections are meant to be held within 60 days cognate another capability of holding another election at the moment so that would push the country further into its political crisis and of course there's always the risk in congo as well that the power struggles will play out in terms of armed conflict through the various armed groups in the east and also through the militaries of neighboring countries which continue to be accused of being involved are serious malcolm webb reporting live from nairobi malcolm many thanks indeed the united nations mission to somalia says that it doesn't expect next month's elections to go ahead due to a lack of security not just serious mohamed atta reports. somalia once again finds

itself a crossroad due to the cutting political agreements or electoral processes a quarrel between the government in mogadishu and a list 2 of the major regional administration since the country has delayed an electoral process that was supposed to have begun months ago and that you'd have seen the election of members of parliament and also members of the senate who in turn should have elected a president for somebody on the 8th of february presidential candidates from the opposition parties have been voicing their concern over the delay with some of them pointing a finger at president mohamed up to life or mother who they accuse of usurping power and wanting to extend his stay in office of course this is not the 1st time this is happening every election season political disagreements like this one and this particular one is mainly based on disagreements over the composition of the

electoral commission which the opposition parties are saying include government security officials who they want to be taken out of these commissions the u.n. secretary general special representative to somalia jim swan has called on somalia's political leaders to dialogue and find a way out of the current ailment ethnic groups in central mali have signed peace agreements after months of mediation spending years of violence between nomadic herders and farmers in mali and the widest hell region tensions of existence of generations from an upsurge in attacks began 5 years ago with the arrival of armed groups nicholas hoc in dhaka and neighboring senegal explains the details of the deal. it comes at a time where there's been an intensifying of violence and attacks in that specific region and so this peace agreement is for specifically for the full lonny in the doggone community living in the core area which is in central mon the next and what

was happen what has happened so far is that in the absence of the mali and state and of security well these 2 ethnic groups have resorted to armed militia so the doggoned have resorted to armed militias for protection and the following is have mostly sought protection from armed groups such as to islam which could mean. affiliate and at the heart of all of this is access to land for the full on these were mostly herders it's access to land to graze their animals and for dog owners who are mostly farmers it's access to land to grow food and because of these intensifying drought because of the changing climate it's become increasingly difficult for these 2 communities that have been living side by side to share these common resources and so this peace agreement that brings these farmers in herders together to find a way to live as a community is significant because 2 years ago we saw deadly violence fall on the

villagers being killed decimated burned to the ground 170 people killed in one day and doggone villages as well being being affected and killed. spain's government says that it will open new camps on the canary islands for undocumented migrants in preparation for a significant influx of new arrivals the government there is refusing to transfer the migrants to mainland spain to prevent more people reaching europe critics argue that the move won't be good for the migrants or the local population but it might even complicate their access to certain rights by us authorities are still adamant on opening up more camps they say in mid february. an indian soldier has been killed and 3 others injured when an explosion happened in the indian administered kashmir police said that an improvised device was used in the attack the soldiers were patrolling a school in the town of cool gum when they were targeted an army spokesman says the rebels are suspected of planting the bomb over night forest fires logging and land

clearance or creating an environmental crisis in australia according to new evidence the country's leaders are now under pressure to come up with fresh policies to protect biodiversity zeros nicola gage reports from south broome and state forest in new south wales. strain is bush land is still recovering from the black some of fires that ripped through the land a year ago blackening 35000000 and killing more displacing nearly 3000000000 animals soon after logging started did state. many plants and almost all animals simply deal with that double disturbance in rapid succession. harvesting standards were tied to the fires but in the south broome and state forest locals found evidence of bloggers breaching lawson's 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 forestry corporation itself picked it up the new south wales forestry corporation says its operations are sustainable and carefully managed with forests regeneration after being logged but as the climate hates up so too has debate on the future of logging and how its trial years more broadly managing its land the world wildlife fund has listed as strongly 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 is serious about action on

climate change and 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 more the via from debris left behind and forests are important sources of carbon storage volatile. that's the greatest source of carbon sink mature trees so without them what are we doing you know what are we going to do with this is under pressure to address climate change the question will be how the nation manages it while also balancing business interests. proven state forest video game retailer game stop has read it uses to thank for a soaring share price despite sluggish growth for the poor outlook investors posting on the reddit page wall street bets

a bit aggressively pushing others to buy game stop stop stop short stock it has reached as high as $354.00 that's 400 percent jump on the week and 70 times what it was worth in organist so read it uses pulled off a market coup well in recent months a lot of investors bet against game stop shorting the stock meaning that they thought it was overvalued and decided to borrow the stock sell it then repurchase it at a lower price and pocket the difference as profit if following this game stop investors realized that large hedge funds were doing this and so using reddit called for people to thwart their plan by buying the stock on mass this increased the price and created a short squeeze where hedge funds were forced by the stocks to avoid massive losses for the pushing up game stop shares movie theater operator amc is also a heavily shorted stock but currently experiencing a huge search after hype online jamie ragas inskeep is the founder of the reddit

thread wall street bets he says that some people have made a lot of money in game stops share. what 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 a really quick way hopefully hoping to make a lot of money 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 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 and at this point anyone who's just buying up the stocks is further putting pressure to series the price. 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 $12000000000.00 al-jazeera. 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 cove 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 linked 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 will make half that this would normally be paid $3000.00 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 bars the shots are under covert restrictions this hotel is one of the only ones open but the manager wonders. how

long is the government is considering a 3rd full lockdown. we just need precise deadline so we can organize it 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 al-jazeera. it's good to have you with us hello adrian for going to here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera security forces in lebanon a fire water cannon of protesters who are angry over coronavirus lockdown measures hundreds of people have been gathering in tripoli.