and they want justice and answers something war 2 wasn't enough. frank assessments you've got colleagues on the ground in the canaries what is the situation there's only one doctor and one nurse for $2200.00 people and in depth analysis of the dates global headlines. inside story on al-jazeera. a moscow court orders the russian opposition leader alexey novell need to remain in jail until his trial next week for a parole violation. hello again i'm watching al-jazeera live from doha also coming up pakistan's top court rules the man who was charged in the murder of the american journalist daniel pearl can be released from prison. a team from the w.h.o.

emerges from hotel quarantine in new hand to investigate the origins of covert 19. 0. 00 to his call on u.s. president joe biden to do more on immigration reform. he returned to russia 10 days ago and was whisked away to detention almost immediately and despite making an appeal a court in moscow has ordered alexina bonney president vladimir putin's most prominent critic to remain in jail he was arrested on january the 17th to returning from germany where he was being treated for poisoning the valley appeared in court via video link and said he'd been denied proper access to his lawyer. i understand my rights and i want to draw the attention of the court to the fact that since i was detained i've not had

a single opportunity to meet with my lawyers in private not a single one. now on weapons to several friends and allies of the valley including his own brother which he can into custody police raided their offices and apartments ahead of planned protests let's talk to alexandra she's our correspondent live for us in moscow so and xander what do we have put what do you think happens next. well viney use the hughes a right to speak during this appeal process to send a message to his supporters and his main message is that the whole prosecution of him is done deliberately to scare people off to scare everyone that objects the president the authorities in russia and his message was to everybody that he's not afraid and that they shouldn't be afraid and now what followed immediately is a renewed calls for a new protests one is scheduled for sunday and his supporters are saying this is

the only way to release him from from from jail in the meantime people that participated in the previous protests are being charged and their houses are being searched and the ones that planned to participate in the new one are being warned of that it's going to be illegal they're going to violate numerous laws of russia his lawyers do plan to appeal to the court of cassation and also to the european court of human rights but there is really not a lot of chance that that will change anything and he's jew in court next week for the hearing on all the charges that he violated his probation where the prison authorities of russia are asking he's suspended sentence to be revised into real jail time and when he appears in court next week alexandra is there

a feeling there but that will be a long process or will it be done and dusted in a couple of days. well most probably it to want to be a very long process because what we also saw today is that his legal team was saying he did submit to the prison authorities by proper channels where he is and why he is there he was in germany that they knew where he was and that this is all basically playing with the law or as he called it a violation of the law when it when it comes to him is so not a lot of people expect that the things will be different next week in this hearing and what they're afraid of that indeed he will end up serving this suspended sentence for that he was condemned to in 2014 alexandra thank you very much brittle denver is the deputy director for europe and central asia at human

rights watch she says russia has used every tool at its disposal against nobel. we can always hope for a fair trial but i have to say that the past does not bode well for us or for a fair trial for him next week the very fact that he's in custody now that they've kept him in custody while awaiting what's basically a decision on whether he should be put in jail for a previously politically motivated. case against him i think that already bodes very very badly he should not be in jail now and he should not be in jail as a result of next week though the later proceedings this is an all out front. against against alexander valley and and his supporters and and also people who came out in the streets to protest not just his detention but also to air just their their general grievances with about about corruption or like they have they

have they really they have spared no effort to undermine and to undermine the law to. intimidate protesters to i mean they arrested record numbers of people on on saturday the kremlin is going to listen to something that they don't want to hear is weak that is predictable there's still a question about doing the right thing and the right thing is to speak out pakistan's supreme court has ordered the release of the man convicted then acquitted of the murder of the american journalist daniel pearl in 2002 pushed borna made omar saeed shaykh had been found guilty of abducting the journalist and was sentenced to death i said because more. after 18 years in prison i am an almost side shakes acquittal has been confirmed pakistan's supreme court rejected an appeal by daniel pearl's family and the provincial government one of the country's high courts had to quit last year but had remained in prison while the appeals were

lodged and heard before the supreme court however after years of denial has admitted in a handwritten letter to the court of playing a minor role in the killing of the american journalist in pakistan although it's not clear what that involvement was 1st year to say that one should do is position for the last 15 years he admitted there he had to. rule he says here the minor role in the induction and murder of daniel pearl handled because of his minor role he had asked there to sentence the reduced and more importantly he also said their team knew. there to the real killers of daniel pearl world he named someone daniel pearl was abducted and beheaded in 2002 he was the south asia bureau chief for the wall street journal a graphic video of his beheading was sent to the u.s. consulate in karachi a month after his abduction pearl had been investigating links between the british

man richard reid the shoe bomber and al qaida in pakistan at the time box stands president pervez musharraf had sided with the u.s. against the taliban in afghanistan a move that was widely unpopular in the country. scheck's argument to the court was the death sentence handed down did not warrant his minor role in the kidnapping one appeal was fly the cortez mean police to accept their appeal and give him a clean and complete acquittal in 2011 a pearl project investigation at georgetown university said the reporter had been murdered by khalid shaikh mohammed being held at the u.s. military prison at guantanamo bay something officials also said khalid shaikh mohammed the man accused of masterminding the september 11th attacks had admitted to while in custody. daniel pearl's family called thursday's decision to release almost side share a travesty of justice and

a danger to journalists everywhere and the people of pakistan i said big al-jazeera . the wall street journal's editor in chief has reacted calling this an infuriating and unjust decision he says they'll continue to support efforts to hold those responsible for quote the brutal murder of danny. a court in frankfurt in germany has sentenced the man who killed politician in 2019 to life in prison but cote was a prominent voice in favor of accepting refugees and migrants stefan ernst had already admitted killing him ahead of the course verdict he shot the question democrat politician outside his own home dominic cain is following that story from berlin. this is a case which shocked many people around this country the murder of a popular german center right politician who had been advocating for pro-immigration and advocating in favor of receiving refugees into the community the man who killed him who the court has decided murdered him well this person had

admitted the killing but in very different types of evidence being given had changed his story time and again but the courts in reaching its verdict and then passing sentence said that it believed that this was a man from the far right that this was a known neo nazi the court had been told that the police had been aware of this individual stefan that he had far right views it's also worth making the point here that mr lucas had himself sensed that he had received threats to his life had received all sorts of different comments to him by people from the far right once his views about immigration had become clear and now as i say this case really shocked germany and has provoked many different politicians to wonder about the safety of people like mr look given the danger they now believe that they face the interesting thing about this is that mr mr ounce to the defendant has been

sentenced to life in prison with certainly he will go to prison for 15 years and the court decided that the nature of his crime the far right element the extremist element of his crime means that he will have to serve more than just a minimum of 15 years before any hope of being paroled. now a team from the world health organization has started its investigation into the origins of the corona virus pandemic they've ended a 2 week hotel quarantine and china will be interviewing people from research institutes hospitals and the seafood markets linked to the initial outbreak katrina you reports now from. after 2 weeks to be confined to their hotel and members of the world health organization research team up beginning their investigation on their mission to find out as much as possible about how the current virus outbreak

began. leaving quarantine team member marion couldn't spoke to al jazeera about the immense job ahead. try and get as good as the. findings starting here in on. primary were done additional studies. trying to you know aggregate everything there is to learn from this initial phase of the pandemic but more than one year after the beginning of the outbreak experts say the team spines will be limited and discovering the pandemics exact origin will be difficult. i think realistically what we're looking at mission is a narrowing. of

a very wide set of. options include exploring the theory the virus was 1st transmitted from a wild animal such as a bat and that it 1st circulated in. it to researchers are also planning a visit here institute of. chinese scientists have studied dangerous pathogens including corner viruses former u.s. president. leaked from this lab the chinese government has dismissed the claim and has in turn raised questions about the work conducted in u.s. military lab fort detrick in maryland which was shut down in july 21000 information about the early days of the carpet 900 outbreak has been tightly controlled but beijing insists it's been transparent with out in the panda we have no intention to misguide public judgment or the w.h.o. to work on these marion could means feels positive about their investigation and has this message for the public the geisha and this will take

a long time and. because that's how science works it really will take a long time don't expect us to step out and say ok so now we can tell you exactly what happened because that will not be the case. and china has been criticized for not doing enough to prevent the virus from spreading the team members say their goal is not to point blame but to find evidence to help fight the pandemic between e.u. al-jazeera rouhani. still ahead on al-jazeera like the date another year in another example violation of human rights and female rights over here in poland thousands of people descend on the polish capital over a court ruling that tightens restrictions on abortion. and the international olympic committee insists there's a question of not if the games will happen. but

. how we got more snow in the forecast for japan over the next couple of days lost a little area of low pressure just swirling away in the sea of japan somewhere windy weather driving through it as if it's a home she. said big amounts to slow coming down as we go on. free friday so that will cause widespread disruption risk increased once again and the snow stretching all the way up into northern parts of the country to the south of this generate dry well we'll see moderate tucking in behind as you make a way towards the weekend manas for the top temperature there in seoul on friday plus 5 as we go one in seuss' as they saw as if that model where which will gradually notch across the city back to the early part of next week behind that it is generally try to set the drive for the good parts of china and try to say for a good part of india although we have got some showers just flirting with the

eastern side of the kountry will see some wetter weather just pushing towards the north by not quite getting it will see some cloud on the right maybe the odd shower there creeping into the day so you might catch a shower or 2 in kolkata stance was the south where you see the west the weather more heavy downpours coming into sri lanka as you go on through saturday shastra rain in place as we go on into sunday pushing across into tom and i do. welcome. from every one of us. even those working quietly behind the scenes. so you can relax enjoy the perfect break in your journey. and when you leave with a smile we know law day's work is down cats are always welcome to our home.

welcome back you're watching al-jazeera i'm peter told me your top story so far today a court in russia today denying the opposition leader alexina bellamy's appeal to be released from jail about only was arrested last week when he went back there from germany he was in germany being treated for poisoning. 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 british born us middleman saeed shaikh. because in frankfurt in germany has sentenced the man

who killed politician involved in 2019 to life in prison stefan ernst had already admitted to killing him ahead of the course verdict. one person has died and 200 others were injured in a 3rd night of violence in the northern lebanese city of tripoli these pictures 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's anger at a lockdown which many say has made lebanon's economic crisis even worse. a funerals been held for the young man killed in weapons days violent protests thousands joined the procession chanting slogans against the ruling class. there have been protests in poland as tough new restrictions on abortion came into effect women's groups estimates hundreds of thousands of women already go abroad to terminate pregnancies and that number will rise hearting 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 and she will go back to the say nothing is enough we demands on the dairy 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. here i want us to have our 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 bear 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. saudi arabia has started to porting thousands of ethiopian migrants detained in the kingdom these images showed the 1st batch of nearly $300.00 men arriving in addis ababa they made the dangerous trip across the horn of africa through yemen and into saudi arabia looking for work if the o.p.'s says it hopes to repatriate at least 1000 workers every week from a social of 40000 migrants. at least 53 people have been killed when

a bus collided with a truck in western cameroon the truck was carrying flammable liquid 29 others were injured cameron's transport minister has now ordered an investigation. turner ascension to south america where armed forces in peru have tightened border security to prevent mostly venezuelan migrants from crossing over they say they are trying to stop the spread of coronavirus series of book reports from buenos aires. peruvian armed forces on their way to the border with a while ago it's the latest move by pitt was government to prevent mostly venice when my gran's from entering the country and potentially bringing coronavirus with them is there for us is that sarah or 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

detected and destroyed 11 routes used to cross illegally. we are deploying our military police across the border to assist our people so that the virus is not carried the virus goes with those who migrate all illegal border crossings are to be shut down. but who 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 and that money even though 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 francisco satie's 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 up 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 rest of nation of another one in 2020 has had a huge impact on how this country has handled covert 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. the man in charge of america's foreign policy says one of the

top priorities of the new biden ministration will be how to handle iran in his 1st press briefing since he took office the u.s. secretary of state antony blinken said washington wants to return to the 2050 nuclear deal which donald trump pulled out of but mr blinken called on iran to act 1st 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 probably 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. iran's foreign minister zarif has responded on twitter saying the u.s. violated the iran deal and cause harm to its population through 3 imposed sanctions serif said tehran had been abiding by the deal and to sort remedial measures he goes on to say the country will never forget what he called trump's maximum failure towards iran. the u.s. is temporarily frozen arms sales to saudi arabia and the united arab emirates secretary of state mr blinken said it was an unusual so new administrations to review pending arms sales in the final hours of the trump presidency his administration agreed to sell 50 f. 35 fighter jets to the u.a.e. . or to washington says they're working closely with the new biden administration towards peace and stability in the middle east. joe biden u.s.

president has been in office for one week now activists say that's long enough to pressure him to change immigration was an important battleground between republicans and democrats and since biden's victory for being calls for quick reforms reports. 8 days into office and another challenge for president biden. left over from the trump immigration reform pardon removed the ban on travelers from several muslim majority countries on his 1st day in office immigration rights activists want him to do more quickly. and it's just going. to be all over. 'd they will move to the u.s. as children to remain and be given permission to work something that was allowed under president obama this also calls for wider immigration reform.

so president biden and vice president. and. i.b.m. leave now it could be a people cannot meet it anymore far away from washington at the u.s. mexican border former president donald trump's policies are still in place. those seeking asylum under trumped what detained in the u.s. and sent back across the border to wait for that outcome in mexico a process that can take months even years we hope those who have been put in remain in mexico will be able to make their asylum cases from the safety of the united states and outside of detention but again we haven't seen our action from the bargaining restriction on exactly what's going to happen so there's

a lot of uncertainty on the part of those in the remaining mexico program. and around $65000.00 people were tended to mexico during the trumpet ministration biden's white house says the program will stop but there's no clarity on what will happen to those still in detention. before the order to make don't send me back i ask you please to look at me i am guatemalan and you will see that things are tough over there there is no work there's crime i can't take it anymore that's why i have come here i have a family here and that's why we are looking to cross i came by bus he took a month to come here by bus. just a little more than a week after coming into office president biden faces many expectations from americans and those who wish to become one in the near future america 3. firefighters in northern argentina are struggling to contain fires that are

destroying big areas of forest the affected area in rio negro province nearly doubled on wednesday now $11000.00 hectares have been destroyed the cause of the fire is not yet known. tokyo olympic organizers say their main partners have raise no doubts or objections about hosting the games in july that includes the international olympic committee and the sporting federations involved in the games the i.o.c. has insisted that holding the games would not be irresponsible and it's a question of how not if they will take place they're expected to release a play book to explain how they plan to get thousands of athletes to compete safely . after talking with everyone and asking them about their thoughts the i.o.c. president thomas back told us that no one from anywhere raise questions or objections and everyone wants to make your games a success. some of the australian open tennis players who spent 14 days in hotel

quarantine are going to have to wait just a little bit longer a total of $960.00 players coaches and staff have been in full locked because of some positive cope with 19 cases on their flights the 1st group was released earlier on thursday but it could take until sunday afternoon for the rest to follow the tournament is due to start on february the 8. this is al jazeera these are the top stories a court in russia today denied the opposition leader alexina vollies appeal to be released from jail in the valley was arrested last week when he returned from germany where he was being treated for poisoning. i understand my rights and i want to draw the attention of the court to the fact that since i was detained i've not had a single opportunity to meet with my lawyers in private not a single one alexandra god for house more now from moscow now finally use

their he's a right to speak during the.