pad the sea effect snow dumping some pretty heavy amounts across that western side of japan once again more than there is also seeing a bit of snow but it should be quite civil if it will cease in that shelter but about. al-jazeera. oh i maryam namazie you're watching the news hour live from london coming up in the next 60 minutes. with few jobs and little money and the threats of coronavirus all around them people in lebanon's poorest city take to the streets. we will persist for

a day longer than is necessary. britain's prime minister extends the lockdown with schools closed and travellers from high risk countries banned. and iran dismisses israel's military warning as mind games but would it change thinking in the united states. and in sports elim pit bosses say it's a case of how not if issues take care of games will happen i see presidents almost but it's a problem for every possible scenario is being put together. hello welcome to the news hour our top story hundreds of protesters have clashed with security forces in lebanon as anger rises over harsh coronavirus restrictions that devastating an economy already on the edge of collapse but lisa in the northern city of tripoli used tear gas and water cannon to beat back protesters who are

demanding the government does more to help in a honda reports now from tripoli. growing poverty is pushing lebanese people back onto the streets protesters say they are hungry unable to cope with a coronavirus lockdown now in its 3rd week they want economic support this is how the authorities responded. but they. are the politicians are focusing on distributing the spoils is that of focusing on us we are witnessing a collapse of all sectors security politics and health all irresponsible they're leaving us to die lebanon's economic collapse began more than a year ago there have been social unrest and political turmoil since official say 500000 families or 2500000 people are in need of assistance that is weak in lebanon 2nd largest city tripoli it was already poor before the pandemic.

these people are obliged to work even though it puts their health at risk other governments are enforcing lockdowns but they give people 8. there is no social safety net for the poor no government assistance the state is nearly bankrupt one 3rd of the workforce is jobless and around half of the workforce depends on daily wages. he has 4 children no shop and on a good day he makes $20000.00 lebanese pounds which is less than $3.00 at the black market rate. let me look you know 1st became so hard i can't even describe it to. my family when others kone want to do that because the. charity associations say more and more people are relying on handouts among them to middle class the cost of daily life is becoming too high especially since the local

currencies value collapse on a daily basis we have people who would like to register because of course we register them. according to nationality and look asian so i must say that the numbers are increasing on a daily basis the open ended political crisis is not helping politicians are arguing about cabinet seats instead of agreeing to fight corruption allowing lebanon to receive much needed international financial assistance the lockdown isn't place until february 8 and it can be extended officials are promising to help the most honorable and are asking people to be patient but for many that's not an option. tripoli northern lebanon. or all the headline is out the united kingdom recording it 2nd highest daily number of deaths in the past 24 hours with more than 7500 lives lost coming a day after the country passed a total of 100000 deaths the government is now defending its handling of the covert crisis in an effort to stem the outrage it's now announced new restrictions for

some people flying in charlie angela has more more than $100000.00 dead livelihoods lost in a generation put at risk with no clear end in sight and the prime minister unable to announce a way out of the national knockdown will only give a date of when the perm might emerge we remain in a perilous situation with more than 37000 patients now in hospital we could almost double the peak of the 1st wave but the overall picture should be clear by mid february by then we will a much more about the fit to vaccines in preventing hospitalizations and deaths the caveat being if no new coated variants emerge and the vaccine rollout continues as planned the look down is particularly tough when children school closures have led to mental health plummeting and inequality soaring the government says costumes

may reopen on march 8th but it will take years for students to catch up on lost education. meanwhile new quarantine rules for some arrivals into the u.k. to try and protect the country from unknown clothing taishan u.k. citizens and residents flying in from $22.00 countries will be forced to isolate hotels for 10 days at their own expense the high risk countries include south africa and brazil like a variant already circulating we've also 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. national news and residents returning home from these countries i can announce that we will require structure rivals who cannot be refused entry to isolate in government provided accommodation such as hotels for 10 days without exception the

airline industry says with no exit plan these measures will effectively close the u.k.'s borders unagi the country already has strict protocols in place while some ministers wanted to quarantine every traveler we need a much stronger defenses of our borders we were one of the slowest countries to take any measures or all those when we had a record change system not many people and here we are today without a comprehensive way of protecting our borders at the very least it urgently needed . vaccines are providing hope for many but the u.k. has the highest death toll in here at the prime minister insists he has followed the science throughout the pandemic at the scientists disagree in grimly predicts another 50000 people could die charlie angela al-jazeera. let's take a look at how other countries of corn chaining travelers arrivals to china mistaya hotel for 2 weeks you want told which hotel you are going to and it can cost up to

$1100.00 taiwan which is recorded only 7 deaths also mandates a 14 day hotel quarantine and then a further weaken self isolation at home and the hotel stay can cost up to $700.00 india's central government has left it up to stay authorities to decide their own rules with the most opting for $1.00 to $2.00 weeks in a hotel or a home we can quarantine can cost up to $400.00 australia was one of the 1st to impose quarantine requirements it takes at least 2 weeks or until travel is a clear of infection and it's expensive with prices going up to $2300.00 it's similar in new zealand where only $25.00 deaths have been recorded travelers are quarantined in hotels for 14 days and charges can start at around $2200.00 not to gabriel scully is a professor of public health at bristol university joins me now by skype from bristol could i start by getting your thoughts on the u.k.'s quarantine policy and

if you think it's going to work. well this is the 1st time that we've had a sort of a compulsory managed quarantine suggested even and it is only being introduced really for 22 countries people coming from 22 countries not the citizens of those countries or others but it will only really be for british nationals and people returning home to britain. so it's very limited and it isn't for 14 days as you've heard from that report most places believe in 14 days is the minimum you should have and the u.k. has there are sort of voluntary self isolation for 10 days for some time now so it's limited in extent and it's only for 10 days and i think most people think it really isn't enough but that is kind of the way the u.k. government has acted though acted late and they've never really dumb things

properly which is why it has this terrible terrible death only speak about anything about quarantines in different countries and whether it lasts for 10 days or 14 days and then accommodation that's provided. how carefully does a quarantine need to be managed what is the risk of that in itself very easily becoming a super spread area. i think it's an enormous risk and. not many people have confidence in the government's ability to do it properly they are talking about ticking people directly to hotels but we know from what we've seen in the u.k. of corn team and read about quarantine and other places that as you say is really quite difficult to get it right to make sure that all the people who are actually being quarantined don't mix together and turn it into a super spreader to make sure that they don't mix with the staff and they don't leave the premises or escape from the premises. and one of the big worries is

that the government will give lots of exemptions we've had this sort of voluntary semi apologies self isolation that people were supposed to do for 10 days but there's a huge list of people who've been exempt from that from bus and coach drivers journalists people coming on business from big companies it's really. they have no track record of doing these things properly during the entire course of this pandemic i suppose the priority now is to really focus on that being a successful that nation program and make sure that it's on track and that the targets and met how how difficult is that going to be we're hearing march for when the lock down might ease but obviously that will presumably be based on some kind of objective assessment of whether transmission rates have come down. yes case

numbers are everything getting the case numbers done is really important vaccination is the one thing that is going well and that's because it's been given to the national health service to do it and they're doing it well but i know from my own experience of running vaccination campaigns that you can easily get 70 percent maybe 87 percent but getting over 90 percent of people vaccinated is really really tough and some of the areas in the country that have the highest levels of the virus and have had at a high level for a long time are the most deprived places with overcrowded housing high proportions of people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds and it's really really difficult without a very strong community integrated local public health movement and we don't really have that lots and lots is being done and said straight from the government in whitehall in westminster in london it is a very london centric thing which is it's almost impossible to run

a public health response to a pandemic or from. the very small bubble of westminster politics thank you very much for sharing your thoughts with us but to gabriel scally joining us professor of public health at bristol university thank you. well vaccines remain the key for many countries trying to get out of lockdowns right now these are some of the latest developments we're watching israel remains number one in the vaccine rice with nearly one in 3 citizens receiving their 1st dose it says it can even vaccinate all of its limp eons in time for the tokyo games despite troubling news from the u.k. it's vaccination program is doing well as we were hearing there with the more than 7000000 people receiving their 1st dose in the united states president biden says an extra 200000000 vaccine doses will help most americans by the summer but in europe is continuing over 49000000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine the e.u.

expected to be delivered but which will now not be received by march the block's health commissioner says she still wants to live replan from the drug from dominic came has the latest from berlin. the disagreement between the 2 parties to this agreement as it were is in the terms of interpretation because from the one side you have the c.e.o. of astra zeneca making it pretty clear that for his company what they committed to in their agreement with the european union was to provide their best efforts towards maximizing the numbers of dosages of the vaccine that could be provided to the e.u. but the european union's take on it is very different saying that when it invested more than $400000000.00 in a potential $400000000.00 doses of the vaccine it was before the vaccine had even been created and therefore that the best effort idea just does not hold water for the european union and at the back of their minds is quite clearly the fact that

the 27 member states many of them when they were working at them mass vaccination strategies it was based upon having very many millions of doses of the astra vent zeneca vaccine which explains the level of anger that there has been in many european capitals these are the astra zeneca over the course of the past week or so well a nurse has become the 1st covered $1000.00 vaccine recipient in bangladesh why the inoculations there is set again there next month but concerns remain for the allocation of vaccines for wrecking the refugees living in bangladesh camps currently there is no vaccine strategy for this group and the choudhry has more from back. the 1st person to be vaccinated in bangladesh is a 38 year old nurse veronique. now 12 other people in this hospital general hospital has been vaccinated all of them are emergency 1st responders

there's a plan to vaccinate at least 5 to 600 more people across the capital city today what is being time as a vaccine diplomacy the government right now has 7000000 dosage of vaccine for a spread made by pharmaceutical company institute of india 2000000 of those vaccines were actually donated by the indian government the government planned to start mass vaccination program next month probably in the 1st week at least $1200.00 people mostly foster responder will be vaccinated in phases now that this merely law according to critics in a country over a population of 165000000 as well as 1000000 refugees living in southeastern part of the country. that suffered quite a bit of economic slowdown when they went into a lockdown last year but 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. you're watching the news hour live from london still ahead on the program clashes between police and protesters in india's capital as tens of thousands of farmers fear new laws will destroy their livelihoods. displaced nigerians react to the sacking of military chiefs in charge of the fight against boko haram. and in sport and eyes is a still hopeful that fans will be allowed to attend this year's european football championships andy is here with that story. iran is dismissing comments from israel's military chief of staff is as preparations are being made for a possible offensive if tenet general carvey is urging president joe biden not to

join the 2015 iran nuclear deal he said he wants to move towards it which would result in the easing of american sanctions on iran iran's presidential chief of staff isn't taking the israeli threat seriously we don't want to join get out. they just talk 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 in defending our country well you know i do nations says that it's concerned about anything that could jeopardize the deal as well the secretary general is is very keen to see a renewed commitment to the way in a renewed commitment to reviving it in a sense. rhetoric. that heightens tensions coming from any side is never very

helpful. well we've also been hearing in the past 30 minutes or so from the new u.s. secretary of state of the blinken speaking for the 1st time on the by the ministrations foreign policy goals he said his top priority was the humanitarian crisis in yemen as well as the relationship with china which he described as august be the most important for his country but one can also insisted that the u.k. needs to cooperate with iran in order to save the nuclear deal if iran comes back into full compliance with its obligations under the j.c. v.o.a. the united states would do the same thing and then we would use that as a platform to build with our allies and partners what we call a longer and stronger agreement and to deal with a number of other issues that are deeply problematic in the relationship with iran but we are a long ways from that point around it is out of compliance on

a number of fronts and it would take some time should it make the decision to do so for it to come back into compliance in time for us then to assess whether it was meeting its obligations so we're not we're not there yet to say the least or shab or townes he joins us now from the state department in washington at so. we didn't get much of an indication as to the u.s. strategy on iran it seems as though the deal might be in stalemate and now. so unclear and we always have to try and parse the language from joe biden's foreign policy team because did he just say that the j c p o a the iran nuclear deal will be the basis of everything we've been forward to the 1st goal is to get both the u.s. and iran in compliance back in compliance with the j c p because it was the us who are on the deal in the 1st place and that basically means concurrently iran getting

rid of any 20 percent or even rigid uranium and so on stopping enriching uranium but also the u.s. lifting its crippling sanctions on iran's economy that will have to happen and then we'll be suggesting to after that happens with both sides meeting their obligations then you have the long term deal over other issues which the gulf countries and israel are so concerned about in the near the neo-cons neo-cons in congress again this time it sort of sounded like he was just ok with we use the j. c.p.o. as the bridge to other other issues but it always the emphasis is always difficult to understand because when he said very very similar similar things in congress during his confirmation hearing in the senate the neo cons were incredibly happy they were they always applauding him with lindsey graham was like yeah this is great we're going to go a long way so when he said pretty much the same sort of thing with the emphasis that he used in congress the neocons heard what they wanted to hear which is iran

has to come into compliance and then we'll look at whether they're in compliance and then we'll look at issues so we still have that ambiguity which we don't we're not quite clear about what we do know is this there's a lot of pressure on the by dint ministration from israel from the gulf not to just go back to the way but then obviously there is international law or the un and the e.u. who basically don't really have much leverage it would seem given what they did during the trumpet ministration who certainly would look at to be agreements that many of these same officials signed with iran as the starting point for future negotiations with iran what did we learn about the other priorities. well we went through a long list i mean. lincoln's credit he said look we love the press and i'll be clear and transparent about everything but what decisions have been made what implications will be made will be there will be because of the decisions made by the trunk of ministration and us than perhaps reviewing those those decisions so we had yemen as you mentioned it was very interesting actually just how how critical

blinken was about the who sees he couched that with with a very critical sense of what was the who sees you sort of began things and of course he has to because it was blinken and by the obama administration that gave the green light for the bombing of yemen which has now created the worst humanitarian crisis in the world and gave saudis in the u.a.e. will the will of military support that they needed so he it was interesting how he couched that saying look clearly there was something terrible happening but now we have to review so to decide who he is because of the potential for humanitarian the further potential for humanitarian catastrophe on russia he simply said that you know they were clearly reviewing issues from the solar winds hack the rest of the valley the opposition leader and interference in the elections abraham of course this is another one where he seems to be having it both ways on the one hand he's saying well we love the abraham accords and lincoln very much gung ho very pro israel like joe budden and his counsel who said he likes the normalization of israel with other with arab nations even though israel has it's completely in

complete violation of u.n. security council resolutions but on the other hand he's saying the state department is reviewing the sale of f. $35.00 weaponry to the u.a.e. on which the abraham accords with the u.a.e. at least relies upon so it's not quite clear what they're doing but they are reviewing that f. 35 sale but at the same time there are other downplaying it in the press releases are saying well look we just reviewing it as a matter of course and then off on afghanistan they want to review the agreements with the taliban perhaps the only new bit of information. will remain the u.s. special envoy china once again. critical of what he thinks what he says is a genocide being being committed and he agrees with with some human rights groups having said that though he wants to work on climate change and other issues with china so on all these issues it was a sort of half a dozen of the other we're going to review these these issues which perhaps you might expect at this stage thank you very much in washington. joining me now is yes i'm out like a bad a senior consulting with sacha chatham house joins me now by skype from london so

as we were hearing from lincoln's remarks there washington is saying that iran needs to come into compliance with the nuclear deal meanwhile to iran is saying that washington needs to take the initiative how how tricky is this going to be given that america's relations with iran have deteriorated so much in a policy is it is they hate. the reason your main station in washington and it's time for it to be a bill that leads and the realities that the united states was the one to withdraw from agreements unilaterally we folks in justifying you know once measured stoolie knew the enrichment what if you were in following threats but there was an agreement in the government that was signed in 25 to 15 of 16 years and beyond the 16 years. and years into the agreement the governance gratian and.

this is the decided unilaterally that you can sue the united states and we do instead of force a slightly negotiated so we are in a situation that both sides know who is going to enter 1st and claim i think all the vitamins the oceans is an eclipse unity to learn to live in gauge with your heart and also to talk to this relationship between the unity and the spirit of the letter of the law and because by that you are only actually followed almost to the last of the spirit of this was different developing ballistic missiles for instance was supposed to organization of the who's been allowed into the engine in syria. so . can you see some possible so you can see some sort of possible diplomatic fudge a you've got obviously as you say the trumpet ministration unilaterally ripped up the deal and then now the biden team is saying that iran needs to fast come into

compliance so it's like who's going to go fast. but i see at least you know it'll continue to you know to leave the tongue action in the past and and move on it was . where we came to the fire in an administration and i think it's really time to move on and to wind gauge of the world weight it's the new administration is doing on climate change on on on missile palestine for instance the new new voices and seeing the same goes for full heart it's actually come not in completely clean slate but understand it but internationally the human should be respected it should be about the right and then try to if there isn't it too many go shoot some elements of that is just. be the benchmark for any future government because to be honest it's actually worth it says it's close and of course the intervention yesterday about these early chiefs of staff is not headed

for when the voices will sign to imply that there is also a military option interest of the united states will join you and. then it's not all of these a list you feel starts to advise in public in the middle. how might that threat of military action impact the state department calculations might increase pressure on the bias by the ministration to return to the nuclear deal to try and might it be the catalyst for some movement. especially when it's done him partly just doing it unnecessarily tensions like now and trying to say he meant and here's . a handful again for your installation that's only a week in and your correspondent. huge agenda to deal in wheeling the middle and then you can globally under any kind

of global economic crisis to start getting this kind of issue alone is going to do this all the there is a military option and we know this is in the middle of the ocean is basically a war between iran is a which. is but it might be involved in other forces in these long into weeks which i don't think anyone is interested so it was a very on how useful intervention which i think the state department and of and mr issues and the messages that i think the election is in understand the need to speed this is not the time not the most to do so yes the amount of nickelback from chatham house and regency a vast thank you thank you. at the new life from london still ahead. i'm natasha potter in the french alps where workers in the resorts juleps as the

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are going back our headlines this hour more than 120 people have been injured including 9 police officers in clashes between lebanese security forces and protesters in the northern city of tripoli. u.k.'s prime minister says england is likely to remain in lockdown until the 8th of march while travelers from several high risk countries will have to quarantine in a hotel for 10 days. and the new u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken has been speaking in the past half an hour insisting that it has to be cooperation with iran if. in order to save the nuclear deal. well now police in india's capital is saying they've detained 200 people after a demonstration by phone this turned violent at least one person was killed as protests as broke through police areas and storm last story read for what police say more

arrests arrested likely to follow the latest escalation in months of protests against controversial reforms katty lopez had diane 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 landmarks 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 it's hard to build a successful year 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 was tens of thousands of farmers broke through 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 almost come home with it and we were deployed to the red fort when people started breaking through if 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 you'll be him. we don't support the incidence of violence happened in the red fort we condemned them 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. al-jazeera the democratic republic of congo's prime minister has been forced out in a vote of no confidence is a major political victory for president felix to his predecessor and rival joseph kabila banks prime minister sylvester a longer incumbent president is now expected to form a new ruling alliance and appoint his followers to key ministries malcolm weber is in nairobi and explains how the battle for control began. this is the latest development in a power struggle between president felix difficulty and former president joseph kabila has been going on for just over or about 2 years so just over 2 years ago congo 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 to see katie it was announced the winner but leaked documents showed 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's what and it was unable to him to push through this vote of no confidence in prime minister sylvester a longer he was a kabila loyalist so it looks now that she's a kerry 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. after months of pressure and i cheery as president has replies

to stop military commanders senate demanded the chief sacking back in july off to a shop rise in attacks that killed hundreds of people. and address reports now from courts and many displaced by the attacks. displaced persons camps like these in nigeria's north east are still filling up as book attacks escalate the recent violence has forced some families who earlier went back to their homes to return to the relative safety of the camps president mahmoud who has now replaced his top military commanders but there is mixed reaction to the news sunday shyer says he fled from a town repeatedly targeted by fighters decides to one's house. not improve what do we do i need his want what do you want is not to build a robot of but to kill them not to build them but to kill them to finish jim and to us not to build them again we had to do want to do all the time does that isn't why

we are not after do we want somebody dead doesn't degrade him. we give away this is the beginning of the year however the military says it has successfully raided but camps and beat back several incursions by the armed groups during a renewed and ground offensive what does. to be sincere going to service chiefs have tried their best but in some instances the best isn't enough at all and despite the fact that we are not security experience we know that they have failed and it's been 11 years since before i'm launched its violent company nigeria's northeast but the armed group isn't the only security council attacked by other fighters in the northwestern has committed despite military operations there i'm robberies and kidnappings for ransom on the right here in the solomon delta region all 13 of the criminal activities the 1st in addition to us recession is movement in the east that refuse. to go away always kept the military busy and

overstretched would have done us good but experts say it's nigeria's strategy to fight these groups that's not working and globally fighting insurgents see 70 percent or 80 percent civilian on 20 or 30 percent military effort this synergized a good. point too good they look at the problem of the counties in the country as the a collective challenge. after more than a decade of attacks and uncertainty nigerians want to quick end to the lawlessness that has forced millions from their homes and killed thousands of people for now there seems to be some goodwill for the new military leadership but it's not clear this will last if there is an uptick in violence how the al-jazeera reporter could nigeria. ethnic groups in central mali have signed peace agreements after months of mediation it comes after years of violence but between

a magic herders and farmers in the country in the white asylum region nicholas hack is following the story from dakar and neighboring senegal. 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 ma in the next and what was happening 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 militias to the doggoned have resorted to armed militias for protection and the following is have mostly sought protection from armed groups such as to islam was the mean. affiliate and at the heart of all of this is access to land for the full of 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. china is due to start a large scale military exercise on thursday in the disputed waters off the south china sea it comes at a time of increased tension with the neighboring island of taiwan and as it waits to see what relations with the by the ministration will look like from the prime reports. it's an air force base in the south of taiwan fighter jets practice for an incursion towards the island by military planes from nearby mainland china jets

have been scrambling for real more often as china has stepped up its military patrols most recently last week and it seems to be beijing's reminder that it will always regard taiwan as part of china and its prepared to take it back by force if necessary wellman we make no promise to renounce the use of force and reserve the option to use all necessary measures our position has been consistent and will not change taiwan's president saying when inspecting her military's preparedness says the island is ready for any aggression who are from last year our radar stations have detected incursions by nearly 2000 chinese military aircraft and over 400 military vessels we drive them away in a timely manner and secured our maritime and space. increased activity across the taiwan strait comes as the u.s. conducts a so-called freedom of navigation exercise sending an aircraft carrier group into

the nearby south china sea angering beijing which regards it as largely its own during the recent turbulent years of the trumpet ministration taiwan has often been caught in the middle of strained relations between china and the us and the new biden administration might not mean an end to that turbulence i also believe that president trump was right in taking a tougher approach to china i disagree very much with. the way that you want about it in a number of areas but the basic principle was the right one the major players in east asia geopolitics are embarking on a new era but bringing with them the same tensions from the last one bride al-jazeera. russia's parliament has ratified an extension to its nuclear arms control pact with the united states it's the last remaining weapons control agreement between the 2 nations after donald trump withdrew from 2 others during

his term president joe biden had proposed a 5 year extension but russian officials said it was on the kremlin's terms the deal was due to expire in about a week. a fresh wave of protests has broken out in poland after the government announced it would immediately implement a near total ban on abortions the country's top court ruled in october 1903 law allowing abortions in the case of severe fetal abnormalities was unconstitutional the controversial decision prompted poland's biggest protest in recent history. once the ruling comes into effect abortion will only be permitted in cases of incest rape or if the mother's life is in danger. boeing has posted a wreck or $12000000000.00 annual loss plane from blamed it to blame the coronavirus pandemic in a 2 year safety crisis of a 737 max for those losses the jet was grounded for 20 months after 2 crashes kill

346 people just 5 months apart but the e.u. and the u.k. of now joined the united states in clearing the plane to fly again after the company made changes. nearly one in 3 people asked in the world's largest ever climate change survey say it's a global emergency the u.n. and the oxford university poll that spoke to 1200000 people from 50 countries on how they want their governments to respond the most concern respondents were in the u.k. and in italy but the general trend showed the higher they were edgy that the high they were educated the further they progressed in iraq cation the more worried they were and in every country more young people than old people believe there is a climate emergency more than half won their governments. to conserve forests and land and invest in renewable energy create green jobs there are now the prime

research at jane goodall is to hold out as they are the key to addressing environmental crisis is 1st by easing poverty every single day real lives we make some impact on the planet and we have a choice as to what kind of impact we make where do we lie with has it come from did it harm the environment was it cruel to animals is it cheap because of child slave labor made the ethical choice when millions of men billions of people make those who call choices but that'll never happen in big enough numbers until we leave poverty because when you're really poor you just do what you have to do to live down the trees because you're desperate to get land to grow food to feed your family buy the cheapest junk food you can't ask who knows that pickle questions because you've got to stay on. a mountain robbie on the indonesian island of java

has erupted sending a cloud of ash and gas 3000 metres past its peak where happy is one of the country's most active volcanoes was already on the country's 2nd highest alert level the sound of the eruption could be heard kilometers away and no immediate reports of damage but some residents had chosen to leave their homes anyway. so add on the news out and have details of a new plan that will aim to keep this year's olympic games running and you will be hear that story.

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back france's president is on the pressure to impose a 3rd national lockdown after his government admitted that current restrictions are not enough to stop the spread of cars that 19 the economic impact is being felt all the way to the french alps west resorts are likely to stay close as a reports from there's a lot of fled it's devastating for an. 3 the employees 400000 people. 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 conveyed 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 we'll make half that this would normally be paid season here in flame 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 has 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 governor. decision that we need to be able to plan months of uncertainty little business and the looming lockdown people here say results 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 for one time now for support andy. thank you so much merrill elim pick bosses say it's a case of how not if this year's tokyo games will happen i see president thomas back insisting a plan for every possible scenario is being put together the i.c.c. executive committee has been meeting to consider its latest moves ahead of the

games which you do to start in july back dismissed any talk of moving the olympics to another country he said a so-called playbook would be released soon explaining how thousands of athletes will be able to arrive and compete safely in japan we are not speculating of whether the games are taking place we are working on how the groups will take you in a place that means we have to put countermeasures to go there for every possible scenario or we've been talking to the half posts travis waldron who explains just how difficult it would be to cancel the games at this stage. 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 are 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 to 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 a way that it can be done safely. without massive gains in vaccinations and huge drops in the number of cases in japan and other parts of the world some mystical filed to get a win in his 1st game in charge of chelsea the blues house a goalless draw at home by wolves there's a least chelsea in 1000 in the premier league say who was appointed on chased by following the dismissal of frank lampard. the president of the spanish league says

any sort of breakaway competition could destroy domestically it's a vast claims in a poll manchester united ramage in barcelona all the driving forces behind the simply project in december wrap president sufferance in a paris set a new league involving europe's top same's could help offset the losses suffered during the pandemic. he should probably go. with we have a pen dimmock or not the super league will not only destroyed football in general but destroying domestic leagues it will destroy the very clubs proposing it it's a project that could have some success in the short term but in the long term it would be a disaster. of a 12 host cities for this year's delayed european championships haven't so april now to decide whether fans can attend games having been perspiring from 2020 because of the pandemic the tournament is scheduled to begin begin on june the 11th and the governing body of european football insists there's still committed to this multi-city plan. our bus and fire alarm let pakistan's fight back with

a century on day 2 of the 1st test against south africa the 35 year old smashing 109 in karate to help home side to 388 at the close extended start of the day in real trouble on 33 for 4 they now have a 1st innings leave at 88 going into day 3 they were listening to him going you know it was a great innings the team needed it because of the pressure we were on the after losing 4 early wickets the plan was to stay out there as long as possible and put on as many runs as possible the match is still wide open. yes this launch of the game i thought it was a sort of decent day. we didn't manage to do is obviously. extremely well just absorbed us. we could that's giving you too much you know from the point of view or to do a really good job as a bowling unit well strayer expected to toss south africa next month dates and

venues are yet to be confirmed england's one day international series in the country had to be perspiring in december after an unnamed south african player and 2 how itself staff members contract it covered 19 inside it seems by a secure hot. and color sciences might is trying to have you with the ferrari formula one saying the spaniard has made the switch for mclaren for the new season is replacing 4 time world champion sebastian vettel ferrari finished down in 6th in the constructors standings last year can be right can in the last ferrari driver to win the world title that was back in 2006 of a kind of 6 force looking for now let's get back to mary i'm in love andy thank you very much that wraps up the news hour but i'll be back in a moment with more the day's news at the 2200 g.m.t. just a couple of minutes from now. the

journey to work can be a challenge on its own. but for some peruvian villages traversing one of the world's most dangerous roads is a risk that comes with the job. we follow the journey of these people as they get to survive. risking it all. on al-jazeera. the tourist terraces of the food is what

club loyalty come a violent confrontation when i was young when there was a football match we were crying because the fans would go crazy but in indonesia one group of revolutionary supporters has taken a stand against male aggression with a carnivalesque display of peace and unity defines who make football old truism angels on al-jazeera. decades ago manila was called the pearl of the orient the manila metropolitan theatre was once a testament to the city's grandeur but decades later the theatre has become a symbol of money list now the philippine government is changing their government buildings the universities and monasteries were just some of the many structures that were destroyed in manila drawing world war 2. but rebuilding a life and a city from scratch has proven difficult and some experts seem manila has never

truly recovered. if iran comes back into full compliance with its obligations under the. united states would do the same thing america's top diplomat says he's open to saving the iran nuclear deal but warns any agreement is still a long way off. i know i maryam namazie and london you're watching al-jazeera.