how does the. frank assessment you got colleagues on the ground in the canaries what is the situation there's only one doctor and one nurse for 2200 people and in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines. inside story on al jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello and welcome i'm peter w. you're watching the news our live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes a team from the w.h.o. emerges from a hotel quarantine will hand to investigate the origins of. the highest court in pakistan up hold the decision to free the man convicted then acquitted of the murder of the american journalist daniel pearl. example violation of human

rights and human rights. thousands of people descend on the polish capital after a court imposes a near total ban on abortion. also this out students in greece are angry at a proposal to put police officers into universities to come on violent crime. bosses say it would not be irresponsible to hold the turkey games in july i.o.c. president thomas bach insists a plan for every possible scenario is being put together and it's a question of how not if the olympics will happen. ok let's begin in the chinese city of new han where investigators from the world health organization who ended the hotel quarantine and begun the task of finding out how the pandemic started they'll be interviewing people from research

institutes hospitals and the seafood market linked to the initial outbreak for a long delayed inquiry comes after months of negotiations between the government in beijing and the world health organization. katrina you reports now from. well the debate has said that plan for the next few weeks is yet to be finalized but since they arrived in china 2 weeks ago they've already been gauged in frank discussions with their chinese counterparts and others involved in the management of the outbreak here in han they've got a mammoth task ahead of them they're investigating a lot of theories and among them is one that covered 901st originated in a wild animal potentially a bat secondly they're also going to go into the 100 black market where the 1st cluster of the current virus was 1st identified and see how the virus might have spread from there and also they're going to check out the institute. which is the

lab where former us u.s. president donald trump alleged that 19 allegedly leaked from all those months ago or now of course the team is going to face a lot of challenges 1st of all it's been more than a year since this outbreak 1st started and many people believe that much of the key evidence may no longer exist and also we do know are that beijing has been tartly controlling any information any doctor around the outbreak and there is a lot of skepticism as to whether they will be able to fully cooperate with the world health organization but the team members that we have spoken to say that it's early days but they are quite positive about going forward but they do mention that the public should be warned that this is a long process it's going to take a while and they need to be patient for us to have any conclusive findings on the current virus. pakistan's supreme court house today held an earlier decision to release a man convicted then acquitted of murdering the wall street journal reporter daniel pearl back in 2002 judges dismissed by daniel pearl's family and the pakistan

government to keep british born ahmed omar saeed sheikh in jail let's go live to islamabad and our correspondent there. just take us through what happened in court today. yes well it's to reach the goals the government. has granted as the family of daniel. had to fire the next bale before they took for good you see behind me this entire country a fake court and a final deciding all part of the idea of the appeal of god going against the equator all omar shaykh along with other very complicated it should be remembered that so much a court facing very debts and then for the murder of daniel back in 2002 he would send james to dead along with other people for direct involvement in that march by the anti terror it's called however and i surprised the high court and

that province knowing that that then by court equated to him and there's accomplices of that that's 10 times god that approximates garland and the supreme court that simply called holding the acts which there is so indeed a disappointment because we've also been hearing that the lawyer representing daniel bard family said that for the 1st time omar shaykh had did make a judge he had a minor role that minor road was no one knows but that he retired before the court that he had engaged a role and a departure of danielle back in 2002 topics and it's may be worth remembering kemal 2008 was in the off to most of the events of 911 daniel pearl was a very well known high profile journalist asking difficult questions the kind of the leading edge of investigative journalism in the region.

indeed did agree to be seen as a huge disappointment i've spoken to some human rights acts or very some of them have been very active in following that gates said that that supreme court should have started a 10 minute detail before the warning that a cricketer gets more than do the very high profile case because daniel had that time was gay scout days you have to go to before the wall street journal and as you mentioned being difficult questions they were near or by the wire and through a meeting which of course ended great days the abduction and head dead killing the gruesome killing so in days there were grades of real questions about the court where day i still why day out that they weren't there we don't know what they did. a report of the supreme court written before days did they really indeed be

disappointing news for many people across the world what happens now to. shake is he free he was born in the u.k. so he presumably has a british passport when this is going to be very interesting to see because the court has also ordered his release way is going to be delayed stunned by what circumstances where did they read the n.t. or did witness him coming out or to be able to speak to him or read or know the details yet which will have to wait and see what happens but indeed the court has ordered his release ok we have to leave it there come all correspondent reporting live from islamabad come out thank you very much. now to europe a court in frankfurt has sentenced the man who killed a politician. in 2019 to life in prison was mayor of

a turn in western germany and he was a prominent voice in favor of accepting refugees and migrants stephens had already admitted to killing him ahead of the court verdict today he shot the christian democrat politician outside his home 2nd man identified as marcus h. is accused of aiding. i mean protests in poland as tough new restrictions on abortion came into effect women's rights groups estimate hundreds of thousands of women already go abroad to terminate pregnancies and that now that number will rise halting reports. during a winter night in warsaw hundreds of protesters came out to the streets to tell the government that they think its stance on abortion is wrong was done she will go back to the sane enough is enough we demand some the gerrity from you we demand solidarity. was on wednesday night poland's new abortion law went into immediate effect banning terminations of pregnancies with

fetal abnormalities abortions will now only be allowed in cases of rape and incest or if the mother's life is at risk doctors performing illegal abortions will face jail time for the sins of the rest of their life want us to have basic rights the right to decide to buy our bodies the right to decide what we want to do and if we want to bear children and in what circumstances to have children i do not want to get pregnant one day and see my child die off to breath this thought horrifies me. the ruling led to weeks of much larger nationwide protests in october because of this the conservative law and justice party delayed its implementation of the law the abortion law is in line with other policies from the right wing party since taking office in 2015 it has also ended state funding for n.v. trophyless ation was this predominantly catholic country now has one of the most conservative laws on abortion in europe there are fewer than 2000 legal abortions

every year but women's groups estimate that an additional $200000.00 women either abort illegally or abroad leah harding al-jazeera. lots more still to come for you here on news including these stories through deploying the military to its borders to slow down the spread of coronavirus. and we look at how small businesses in the u.k. are adapting to the reality of bricks in. pakistan taking control of the 1st cricket test in this great against south africa system as you see this is the. scene of outside. the court in moscow is expected to hear the russian opposition leader alexina bounty's appeal to be released from prison today on wednesday the police raided his offices and the homes of his relatives and associates the opposition leader was

arrested last week when he returned from germany where he was being treated for poisoning he's accused of violating previous parole restrictions alexander joins us live here on the news from moscow so alexander is this really just about increasing pressure on him and the people that work with him or is there something illegal or criminal that the authorities are going after. well you see this whole position use it if you views it as activity in a very restrictive laws that exist in russia in order to fight to them to fight the opposition and their ways the only ones that they think they have of expressing themselves and which is by streets protests now if we look at the russian laws yes you can find an article of the law 'd that can be a political for instance that we had yesterday or what they called here that they of house searches where more than 15 apartments of not only about his family but

close associates were searched and some people were detained on suspicion that they violated health and disease control and norms by. these laws says that they gave the possibility of people get ill and they can face up to 2 years in jail if they are convicted on the charges when it comes to today's appeal hearing of violently the what they're appealing is that what they're saying is that this edition of the court to detain him for 30 days was unlawful and what they're also saying is that there was no independent of court security because the prosecuting side was police and the court hearing was in a police station what the supporters of the vialli are secretly hoping is that he might be released on a house arrest so that this measure is changed to house arrest but on the other hand they would see that as we need all that there pressure from the street brought

us to work but on the other hand can the backfire to them that there will be less people protesting on the 31st of december but at the same time the authorities are not sitting idle day 'd started all of the warning there to 31st of january is not . dave for people to join at these rallies because they're illegal they started warning also the social networks they are telling them to take down any contact of content and that calls for people to join in the brought this on sunday is this potentially a problem for the kremlin alexander in the way that it may be wouldn't have been 10 days or 2 weeks ago we've got a new u.s. secretary of state mr blinken clearly signaling to mr putin the kremlin the authorities there in moscow look we this u.s. is ministration is watching very closely what's going on and we are framing

watching within a framework of human rights violations well you see what we see recently for a couple of months already and maybe even longer is that the kremlin chooses not to react on such calls they clearly said that what is going on in russia is an internal russian thing and that they should not interfere and moreover what they're saying is alexei navalny violated the rule a lot so law enforcement are doing their job and this is the stand that they will possibly maintain they're also trying to downplay the numbers of the people on the streets they're also saying today the spokesperson offered 14 said that it is up to sociologists to determine what are people that are protesting dissatisfied with the so it is a downplaying of the whole thing it is choosing not to take into account of the

international international reaction but rather saying this is our stuff this is internal things going on and you shouldn't interfere because with interfering it is you that is violating the laws alexander thank you very much alexandra got from our correspondent there in moscow. 3 months since the conflict in ethiopia's to grey region triggered across border humanitarian crisis aid groups today still calling for assistance the international red cross is urging more funding to reach vulnerable people aid groups lost access to the region of tikrit in november after federal troops launched an offensive against rebel regional forces thousands of thought to have died with nearly 50000 refugees fleeing to neighboring sudan last week the un reported a high number of rape cases integrate soldiers are accused of sexually assaulting internally displaced people in exchange for basic commodities the u.n. also estimates nearly 2300000 people or nearly half of the population of to carry

is at risk of starvation and in need of emergency food aid let's go live now to nairobi and my colleague our correspondent there. mohammed or why can the humanitarian groups not get into the region using some access points. well they can in some areas but they can't in most parts because fighting is still going on there to get people's liberation front militias who've been fighting the ethiopian federal forces have tunde into our good will outwit all of sorts going in the smaller bands and cutting out attacks against the federal forces as well as government is tolerations in different parts of the ticket a region and that is why they cannot gain access to most parts of the think about the job of course even before the conflict began there was hundreds of thousands of people who are who needed to be fed on top of the

thousands upon thousands of at a trans refugees who'd been living in that secure i didn't. there are so many layers to these humanitarian problem and on top of that the idea that your fish also held a press conference today mentioned that most of the medical centers some hospitals in the tickler region have been looted during the conflict and even in the past 3 weeks something that is making life even more unbearable for the people who are still stuck in that equation mohammed thanks very much for the reporting from nairobi. saudi arabia has started deporting thousands of ethiopian migrants detained in the kingdom these images show the 1st batch of nearly $300.00 men arriving in at a suburb or they made a dangerous trip across the horn of africa through yemen and into saudi looking for work if the o.p.'s says it hopes to repatriate at least 1000 workers every week of

40000 migrants. one person has died and 200 others have been injured in another night of violence in the northern lebanese city of tripoli these pictures do appear to show security forces using live ammunition to disperse dozens of protesters police say they were responding to hand grenades thrown by demonstrators there is anger at a lockdown which many say has made lebanon's economic crisis even worse than it was before. still to come for you here on the news are struggling to cope with cope with 19 doctors in central and south america say they don't have enough supplies to deal with a surge of interaction it's. just not it's pushed up and unfortunately it's a little like a ponzi scheme a warning for investors about the sudden rise in stock sales of the gaming retail company and game stop. at a shop in the premier league is man united lose at home to people to the team that's coming up with pizza in sports in about 30 minutes.

per. day we've got much smaller proceeding to western parts of the year up but we are going to still see a fair bit of snow in the forecast as be go through the next couple days because that moderate streaming in from the atlantic is bumping into decidedly colder air as it does so what rain we do have coming in from the west we're really turn to snow on the leading flank so we see some snow coming in across germany poland austria easing further east was fair bit of snow coming in across eos maybe another meter also a fresh snow coming in here to be some snow to around the balkans and of course to the east we've already got snow there into ukraine pushing up into that western side of russia through the baltic states but here's that model red that wetter weather which will eventually talk its way in over the next couple of days temps

getting up to 15 celsius in madrid we'll see highs of around 17 into pretty good weather coming in here that moderate that wetter weather will continue to push his wife further race with so some heavy downpours moving across france as we go on through saturday still some rain around across southern parts of england and wales and still a little bit of snow there into east anglia the low countries pushing down into southern parts of germany will see some snow too by this stage making its way across central and eastern parts of turkey and turning very wet and windy for the eastern med. i really did bad things without being able to forgive somebody like me a convicted war criminal seeks out the survivors of a prison camp to apologize for the crimes of his past i just can't get even

better asho in. the unforgiven a witness documentary on al-jazeera my own team asked back. to an outlet next. it's america's worst kept secret cracked open the time of a pandemic exposed in the time of trump through the turmoil of 2020 the big picture traces a century of racial injustice to reveal how philanthropy politics and economics preserve structural inequality keeping white a supreme and black in its place a race for america coming soon on a jazeera.

welcome back you're watching the news hour live from the i'm peter dopy let's just recap your top stories are the world health organization team has now ended a 2 we quarantine in will and in china will now begin investigating the origins of the corona virus pandemic after months players. pakistan's supreme court has ordered the release of a man convicted then acquitted in the murder of the wall street journal journalist daniel pearl judges dismissed the appeals against the release of the british born ahmed omar saeed. a new court ruling has come into force in poland that makes abortion almost totally illegal that's despite winning holding the biggest protest in recent history to oppose the verdict more demonstrations are being planned. armed forces in peru have tightened border security to prevent mostly venezuelan migrants from crossing over they say they're trying to stop the spread of the coronavirus to reason reports now from buenos aires. peruvian armed

forces on their way to the border with a quota it's the latest move by pit was government to prevent mostly vinous when my gran's from entering the country and potentially bringing coronavirus with them that's different than us that's iraq but our borders are closed to the cemetery raisins and what we have to do is to make sure that any passage that takes place is lawful. but it's been a challenge to close the border completely since early january the 2 countries have to tech tid and destroyed 11 routes used to cross illegally. we are deploying military police across the border to assist stop people so that the virus is not carried the virus goes without him migrate all illegal border crossings are to be shut down. we do has a reason to be concerned the number of covert infections has increased dramatically in recent weeks. this is a daily seen in this and then nation which has already reached more than

a 1000000 cases it is one of the worst affected countries in the region. we are going through a period of terror we are unsafe we go out in public with great insecurity we come to the hospital and there's a line we wait for hours and hours i think the government needs to take note for the health minister to come to hospitals look at the people there are children and elderly inside hospitals are struggling to cope with the increasing infections and that's why president francis course i got these week announced a told her lockdown of the capitol and 9 other regions are going to. have medical i think we've got 2 or 3 very difficult weeks ahead because we don't have any more physical space to treat patients we don't have beds in intensive care so we won't have places for all those who are sick in the coming days it's certain that the number of deaths will go for a lot which is difficult because we're seeing more young people dying than in the 1st wave. peter who has lagged behind other countries in efforts to ensure vaccines for its citizens the ouster of one precedent and the resignation of another one in

2020 has had a huge impact on how this country has handled kovac 19 access to the vaccine is a major challenge in latin america right now even though governments from argentina chile and others say they have secured doses of the vaccine massive vaccination may be months away there is simply not enough vaccines in the region right now and that's a problem for governments in the region who are trying to prepare for what's coming next. mexican health officials say president and roseman well lopez obrador is recovering well from covert 19 lopez obrador tested positive on sunday after returning from an event in central mexico he has been criticized for being slow to impose a lockdown and for continuing to hold rallies the pandemic is worsening in mexico with more than 153003 ported so far. let me just close with a health report on the president is still evolving positively today is his 4th day

of course at 19 which is persistent with minimal symptoms he has had some brief and late episodes of fever practically no other discomfort. across central and south america the qubit 19 pandemic is getting worse health services in brazil peru and paraguay are struggling to manage the crisis as a 2nd wave hits the region catch a lopez for young picks up the story. these are photographs of doctors who died of covert 19 a memorial outside preuss medical college in lima honors more than 260 doctors who have died from the virus. it's led to a strike with medics calling on the government for better working conditions and supplies without them they fear more doctors and patients will die he made wasn't what he had only maybe but it's 23 of my doctors have died 80 percent of them were specialists both young and old have passed away my hospital is difficult to reach

you can only get there by plane or boat if i need oxygen it won't arrive in time. countries in central and south america are tackling a 2nd wave of the virus but the 1st one never ended a new strain of the virus has been detected in the brazilian state of amazon us and now colombia has announced flight restrictions both on body ordering tell us for a period of 30 days passenger flights from colombia to brazil and from brazil to colombia will be suspended. more than 220000 brazilians have died of covert 19 in this hospital in the city of mine else medical staff are already tackling the new variant scientists believe it's powering an increase in new infections by up to 40 percent there is st cortez of all as you beds in many brazilian students from the northern regions of the amazon to the south of the border or of being

used to treat the patients. in parts of guatemala medical staff stepped out of hospitals to set up testing centers in popular markets out of 250 cova test an average of 40 people test positive every day would be as a simple point as we know you situation seems a bit gallus i think the measures in place aren't strong enough the government needs to be more strict about it. but in a continent where much of the economy depends on mobility. and street vendors many fear things will get worse before they get better. the so the young al-jazeera. now back to europe it's only has the world's 2nd oldest population and europe 2nd highest coronavirus death toll for many elderly people social distancing means being isolated from their families for a long time especially those in care homes however step back a report now from the lino in southern italy some have come up with an idea that is bringing affection and touch back after nearly

a year of distance. so. who am i asked his mother. if you go i'm luigi he reminds her it's all a little overwhelming much carry with the mask is the fuel in the plastic barrier she has difficulty recognizing these but the least she did recognize me after a few minutes. this is the 1st so-called hug bubble in southern italy plastic divides them and yet it's the close as they've been able to get to each other in almost a year a simple touch once taken for granted is now everything. in between family visits everything gets sanitized a new reality it's still hard to get used to this structure gets moved around these villages to the homes for the elderly there are 4 with around 200 residents and this is so everyone gets

a chance to hold and to feel and to somehow still physically touch their loved ones something that's been so terribly missed during this pandemic threat aspect father and daughter kiss for only the 2nd time in a year plus a real rigorous work over for them it will pass she tells him everything passes didn't do her past to the worst of them of their own to figure out these are emotional moments it's been a long lonely year for many. italy has the 2nd highest. population in the world and one of the highest coronavirus death tolls in europe at more than 80000 so far it's also a culture of large family gatherings with grandparents often at the very center. if you will my dream is to hug or my relatives again to have company to see happiness for a spall to be together. vaccination campaign is underway with the elderly due to be inoculated after health workers and those involved in this hug bubble project in

the villages outside of naples say it started just a few days before christmas and believe it will have to remain in place for a while longer see on the vaccine isn't a magic potion and you are not immediately immune and so we will still have weeks probably months ahead of us in which you will need to maintain all of these protective measures and so this room will continue to be an opportunity for relatives to be able to get close to their loved ones. touch even through plastic has become so very precious these days. but. i want to go home medea pleads with her son he tells her not to cry. this pandemic has made the pain of loneliness and what we're feeling there are even worse stephanie decker al-jazeera avellino in southern italy. after a long quiet period of time the u.k. seaports to france and belgium are expected to get back to normal this week but businesses are watching anxiously having to battle through new export paperwork

brought in after bricks that for some it may mean saying farewell to their biggest market journal reports from dover in the county of can't. it's been a bad 12 months for covert hit retail and hospitality were complete grocery offer greengrocery through both through goods through the delicatessen bread from fantastic bakery down to folkestone but for small and medium sized businesses like this one importing stock from the e.u. what lies ahead is also uncertain thanks to breaks it but we're told that small businesses here then have to digest through these great trade deals between between states right i think of course here we're the economic end of it so that clarity can my business apps actually survive through the realities and then for us we're fortunate we can look at other sourcing we can look around to see where. we can no longer get a french briefer i can say because a cop price point doesn't give an opportunity to in english we said there were opportunities from fresh produce to fine wine importers and exporters alike the

reality of britain's breakup with its largest market is becoming clear the light switched on and it dawned on us that actually this was going to be a quick fix this wasn't going to go away all of a sudden the cheshire cheese company has shelved investment plans to cope with previously growing sales to e.u. consumers the search is on for alternatives one door closes another one opens we already shipped to the u.s. and canada we could probably stand a heck of a lot less and maybe fill that up by chasing chasing business in other parts of the world and effectively leave you completely innocently out of the equation that same day the main choke point for trade is here dover where preparations. been made to the new border checks and not far away vast lorry parks have been created in anticipation of long delays a month since the u.k. e.u.

trade deal was struck and several weeks since it came into effect and most of the queues in congestion have been down to cope with 19 drivers having to be tested before they make their way to france the actual volumes of trade are being fairly low business is making use of stockpiled supplies but as those supplies begin to dwindle the expectation is that perhaps within days something like normal volumes of trade will resume likely causing further delays adding to the difficulties faced by businesses and entrepreneurs attempting to navigate complex custom systems fees and people work where once there was mutually beneficial frictionless trade across the channel in some cases now the brakes are being applied join a whole al-jazeera dover. students in greece are protesting against a bill that would create a new branch of the police for university campuses the government says the force is needed to fight violent crime in greek universities john psaropoulos now from

athens. if the government has its way student protests like this could become a thing of the post a new bill would ban noise pollution and political banners in universities it would also introduce a campus police empowered to arrest and charge those considered troublemakers and disciplinary boards with power to suspend or expel students the government says too much crime goes unpunished on campuses where faculty members have been attacked or bricks into their offices and students have been raped but these students disagree with the right guy and this whole discussion about insecurity and how universities is not based in reality if you look at police statistics the crimes committed on campuses are negligible what where really afraid of is what's in the bill the sanctity of university campuses goes back to 973 when the military dictatorship

then ruling greece used the army and police to crush a student protest here at the athens polytechnic although no one was hurt on the campus an estimated 3 dozen people were killed on the night of the operation and the following days in 1902 police were forbidden to enter campuses but and the kist groups often took advantage of this to escape the rest of the confrontations with police police community was abused in other ways police recovered this expensive equipment stolen by intruders from the athens polytechnic to be sold on the black market. when it came to power in 2019 the conservative new democracy government allowed police on to campuses at will keep those just gotta get even if that is the only thing the government is achieving is to irritate an already vexed society and a student body that is anxious about its future and is giving the kiss of life to

extremists specifically the leftwing syria's opposition so to start a cat and mouse game on university campuses we don't need this tension. the government decided to tighten campus security last october after 8 assailants held a university rector hostage in his office and called for a return to immunity from policing the main problem is created by from people who come from outside they have not been very students so i strongly believe that 90 percent of the problem is going to be sold we think to the doctrine of the checking of the people who went there in the universe the building students are protesting against the bill the government has the votes it needs in parliament but the students are claiming the streets jumps out ople us elders are athens at least 53 people have been killed when a bus collided with a truck in western cameroon the vehicle was carrying flammable liquid 29 others

were injured cameron's transport minister has now ordered an investigation. rival ethnic groups in mali have signed peace agreements after months of mediation there's been years of violence between nomadic herders and farmers hundreds have died and thousands have been displaced is nicholas hot. among the cattle in this slaughter house on the outskirts of the capital bamako are families hiding from death they are ethnic dawns and for long herders members of true agricultural communities who have been fighting over arable land in central mali their knowledge being side by side in the capital waiting for the violence to subside and you peace agreement mediated by swiss negotiators has been signed by both sides the deal is supported by mali's transitional government but the people here are still too afraid to return home and then. i don't believe a few signatures on a piece of paper can bring peace 1st we need to disarm everyone i mean each and every one by one needs to forfeit their weapons to allow us farmers to return to

our land and bring this war to an end or. low rainfall and more droughts have made central mollies arable land a source of conflict falana nomads encroach on the ground farmland to graze their cattle in 200-1000 this land dispute turned violent according to the armed conflict location and event data project almost 3000 people have died in the fighting mostly in central mali the absence of the money and state to mediate this crisis armed groups stepped in fuelling divisions and al-qaeda affiliates protecting the full on the herders fight against doggone militia groups done. supported by government forces the fighting is spreading beyond central mali today bring back enough us so almost 2000000 people are displaced. doggoned says we are the same people we are all mali and we need to peace accord that can go on to security

for all this is what we need for us to come and live side by side together again. as part of the swiss brokered peace agreement full arnesen do go on living in the region of coro agreed to forgive past crimes stop carrying weapons and agree to build trust to allow the return of displaced people it is to me this was center for humanitarian dialogue says the support of the mali and authorities will be crucial in consolidating these new achievements this peace agreement comes as france plans to reduce its military presence in mali where 5000 french soldiers are stationed the government of transition is seeking a shift in policy calling for dialogue with armed groups the aim is to end the violence so that people can return to their land because hark al-jazeera the u.s. has temporarily frozen arms sales to saudi arabia and the united arab emirates secretary of state and blinken says it's not unusual for new administrations to

review pending arm sales in the final hours of donald trump's presidency his administration had agreed to sell 50 f. 35 fighter jets the u.a.e. the iraqi ambassador to washington says they're working closely with the new biden ministration towards peace and stability in the middle east william lawrence is a professor of international relations at the american university he thinks the sale to the u.a.e. will likely go through. well there's sort of 2 stories here one is that it is entirely normal as the administration is saying to review such weapons sales when a new administration comes in with its own usual is all of these public statements and all of this turmoil including tweets by senators you know and all and all the brouhaha around it that that's quite a typical it's very likely that these sales will go through but it's the way in which the children ministration hastily went through

a whole bunch of quid pro quos relating to the abraham accords and other hasty actions at the end of the ministration created a circumstance by which he even if the democrats and the by the ministration agree with the arms sales there's a kind of bitter taste in their mouth about the way in which trump went about it and that's really what's under review and so what happened last year in the year before is to murder. in the war in yemen sort of into one issue at the level of the senate and there was a lot of comments by senators about you can't trust saudi arabia can't trust yemen and much as much that was as much directed at the trump administration and their relationship with those countries as any human country's for doing and then what happened after that is they got $55.00 votes in the senate $55.00 votes against the arms sales but they needed 60 votes to break the filibuster and that's still about the same ratio in the senate so if it came up for another congressional review the

sales would go through again but the opposition to the conduct of the war and you met and world's greatest humanitarian catastrophe is something the senate's going to continue to raise the alarm bells about. the man in charge of america's foreign policy says one of the top priorities of the new by been astray shouldn't will be how to handle iran in his 1st press briefing since taking office the u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken said washington wants to return to the 2050 nuclear deal which donald trump pulled out solve but mr blinken called on iran to act. 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 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 and 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 there are foreign minister zarif is treated in response to mr blink in saying the u.s. violated the iran deal in cause harm to its population through reimposed sanctions zarif says tehran had been abiding by the deal and had sought remedial measures he goes on to say the country will never forget what he called trump's maximum failure towards iran president biden in the states assigned executive orders to address global warming they include cussing fossil fuel subsidies and pausing oil and gas heating seas on federal land he says climate change is at the center of his administration's national security and foreign policy and just like we need

a unified national response to cover 19 we desperately need a unified national response to the climate crisis because there is a climate crisis we must keep we must lead the global response because neither challenge can be met as secretary kerry has pointed out many times by the united states alone we know what to do we've just got to do it. when we think of climate change we think of it this is a case where conscience and convenience cross paths where dealing with the sex the central threat to the planet and increasing our economic growth and prosperity are one in the same. the u.s. stock markets in shock today off the shares in a failing company soared in value videogame retailer game stop has been losing money for years but one group of online traders linked up to force the price to skyrockets kristen salumi has more now from new york. game stop

a videogame retailer was in trouble even before the coronavirus pandemic hit suffering hundreds of millions of dollars in losses and closing hundreds of brick and mortar stores as gamers increasingly made their purchases online but none of that has stopped its stock from skyrocketing in value spurred on by individual investors posting on the reddit page wall street bets started by jimmy rosen ski 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've cared about the short term moves so in theory in the short term anything is possible i mean the price is set based off them supply and demand and at this point anyone who's just buying up the stocks is further putting pressure to raise the price institutional investors had bet against game stop shorting the stock to make a profit but read it investors rallied against them buying the stock on mass this

increased the price and created a so-called short squeeze where hedge funds were forced by the rising stocks to avoid massive losses further pushing up game stop shares after losing hundreds of millions of dollars institutional investors like andrew left of citron research have admitted defeat and walked away analysts warn this is a dangerous game the stock is pushed up and what usually it's a little like a ponzi scheme because if you're a last person old in those years under $60.00 a share you got up there on dollars and now it's trading at $88.00 what you just got stuck with the last part of the trade you lost a lot of money. stop express and standard stayman but many day traders appear willing to take the risk now propping up other struggling companies like the amc theater chain and black berry threatening wall street institutions and prompting calls for reform of

a market increasingly seen as out of touch with main street kristen salumi al jazeera new york still to come here in the news for you a viral photo of u.s. senator bernie sanders helps grab big bucks for charity. and 2 of the n.b.a.'s top teams muse in what many think could be a preview of the season's finals that's coming up in sports with peter when we come back.

time for sport is peter thank you peter

a limpet bosses are adamant that holding the tokyo games in july would not be irresponsible much of japan is in a state of emergency because of covert 1001 poll showed 80 percent of the public are in favor of postponing again or canceling but the international olympic committee says it's a case of how not if the games will go ahead they are to release a playbook soon explaining how they plan to get thousands of athletes to compete safely in japan if we would think it would be irresponsible and if we would think there could be games could not be saved we would not go over it again principle number one save organization we've been speaking to the huff post travis waldron who explains how difficult it would be to cancel the games at the stage. i don't think anyone wants to call these off because of the money and 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 of the australian open tennis players who have spent 14 days confined to their hotel rooms

all going to have to wait a bit longer a total of $960.00 players coaches and stuff have been in full lockdown because of positive covered 19 cases on their flights the 1st group was released a few hours ago but it could take until sunday afternoon for the rest of follow they have so far been 8 positive cases linked to the tournament which starts on february 8th. so football when there was a shock in the english premier league with title contenders majesty united beaten at home by the bottom team sheffield united won 21 with goals from keane bryan and all of a burke if any of their 2nd win all season and 1st that old trafford in 48 years manchester united who were unbeaten in 16 and missed the chance to retain top spot means rivals manchester city topped by one point with a game in hand. the boys have been absolutely terrific for the last few months and

they've been really really consistent high performance level. tonight was i would like to. not hit those levels and when you don't in the premier league you don't get results thomas to cause 1st game as chelsea head coach finished in the goalless draw with the wolves the german took over from frank lampard on tuesday but despite his players making 820 passes more than any other team in the game this season they could not find the net he was happy though with what he saw. from now on is the starting point and we will absolutely focus on our strengths and the qualities that we absolutely have and we will build a team that nobody wants to play against. as this is the challenge and just a challenge for me to do this as fast as possible what i saw today i was very very pleased and from from here we can we can start. pakistan are on top of the 1st cricket test against south africa in caracas the hosts stay away the 378 all out on

the 3rd morning for an overall lead of 158 south africa a 1341 in reply 8 in markram and grass in front of dozens the creeps. just former president bill clinton was among those to speak at the funeral of baseball great hank aaron the former atlanta braves star died on friday at the age of 86 if famously defied racist death threats on his way to breaking babe ruth's home run record in 174 a record which stood for 33 years aaron remains 2nd on the all time list behind barry bonds hank aaron's greatness as a baseball player was just a part of the ordinary fabric of american life you know spring would come on the trees with. the bird which europe. and here and we began wearing on to pictures. $1074.00 of course next a day henry had

a 750th career run but this was so much more than just breaking a revered basically. the image of a black man being given a standing ovation deep snow was a powerful civil rights movement the lash. only time i heard him complain was you know or were marched around brothers. in the old league rule leagues. are gone. except me. well he's with them now but he has not left us. in the n.b.a. the current champions los angeles lakers were beaten by the philadelphia 76 is on wednesday in a matchup some of thinking could be a preview of this season's finals the lakers playing in blue here could not avoid defeat despite the best efforts of the brown james joel embiid was the start of philadelphia with 28 points on the night closely contested game finishing with

a late basket from the 76 is 107106 the final score french sailor yannick best of and has been declared the winner of the van de globe around the world race he was actually not the 1st across the finish line but was awarded a time bonus for his role 'd in rescuing a fellow competitor whose boat sank and taking that into account he completed the race faster than anyone else singlehandedly sailing around the world in 80 days 13 hours 59 minutes and 46 seconds and that's all this will peter peter thanks very much we'll talk to you later u.s. senator bernie sanders is raising millions of dollars for charity using a popular mean of him and his mittens it comes at a time where millions of americans are struggling of course to put food on the table and chapelle reports. the senator from vermont became the unlikeliest of fashion icons at the inauguration by wearing bully mittens made from repurpose sweaters and recycled plastic bottles made by school teacher i was just trying to

keep warm trying to pay attention to what was going on within hours the image of bernie sanders was everywhere repurposed into days of hilarious content on social media with the senator appearing in major films historical moments and even the al-jazeera newsroom. chairman sanders merchandize quickly sold out his political action committee has raised $1800000.00 for area charities including meals on wheels an organization that delivers food to senior citizens who live alone toby king was inspired to make a doll of the senator it fetched $40000.00 on e bay it's very inspiring like how it would no matter your political views one of his main goals is to help people how can you not like somebody who wants to go meet you meals on wheels you know one day so he inspired me to do the same thing 50000000 americans including one in 4 children are food insecure demand on food pantries has spiked during the pandemic so any efforts to feed the hungry certainly welcome at

a time where help is needed more than ever and al-jazeera. ok we are more news is next also your 13 she with another news or. frank assessment you've got colleagues on the ground and in the canaries what is the situation there is only one doctor and one nurse 40200 people informed opinion as to how big this foreign policy figure in the early stages of a bi ministration he comes into office with a huge amount of foreign policy experience in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines how will

a place like good 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. in new delhi take advantage of the relatively clean air after weeks of toxic small stopped people from venturing outside and to. it's a clue to harvard say air pollution is leading to more severe cases of the coronavirus and more deaths from it and nowhere in india is the situation worse than in daddy the number of cases auto record where a desperate situation of the indian government set up a new commission to monitor sources of pollution across 5 known for the state's health experts and mention this and been wanting for months that the easing of the lockdown would lead to an increase in pollution and the impact that would have on those because the 19 it's 10 years since revolutions across the arab world challenge the power. but how did these leaders rise to their positions the principle of the series dictation is to be patient they play their game very

carefully and how did they stay in control the common thing amongst the arabic states is is incredible will to survive the arab awakening absolute power. on a. russian opposition leader alexina vali appears in court to appeal a decision to keep him in jail ahead of this trial next week. i'm on inside this is al jazeera life and also coming up.