yet earning billions around the globe you're $39.00 is involved in everything that makes money for north korea. to carry defray the cost for us to take on tyson. the money this year and it goes straight into the coffers as a leadership a $2.00 part people in power investigation bureau $39.00 cash for came to. protests escalate in northern lebanon of a covert 19 measures government corruption and a direct commie. hello i'm adrian so they get this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up russian opposition leader alexina vowed to stay in jail until the next hearing that could send him to prison for several years. like a standstill court upholds the acquittal of

a man convicted in the murder of the american journalist daniel pearl. and love overcoming barriers for the elderly in italy the connecting family and friends during the primary. we begin in northern lebanon where protests against lockdown measures and corruption are escalating security forces are again firing tear gas and water counted at protesters gathered in tripoli last night one person was killed and 200 people were injured. well thousands joined the funeral procession for the victims they chanted slogans against the ruling class many say they'll continue to demonstrate until that amongst them at al-jazeera is saying a honda is in tripoli she's with us now live what's the situation there now sanna. another night of protest another night of the violent confrontations between

security forces and a few 100 protesters who are again trying to school on the set i the government building here in london on the 2nd largest city they're venting their anger towards those in power of the authorities people who have been governing this country for decades people they blame politicians they blame for running the economy into the ground it's the 4th night of protests people returned to the streets because they say that the coronavirus. which wasn't accompanied with any financial assistance to the vulnerable and the poor they were just not able to cope but this exacerbate an already existing economic crisis so people here feel that they deserve a better life people here feel that those in power base are there should be a new leadership and it's not just about giving them a few $100.00 in order to survive 3 or 4 weeks of

a lot of but what they've done so this is an economy that provides jobs most of these men here are unemployed many of them work in the employ of old in former labor secretary that means that they have no social security so there is a lot of anger and on wednesday night there was a serious escalation of the security forces he was live ammunition to try to disperse the crowd a protester was killed like you mentioned the doctor saying he suffered a gunshot that is by protesters say this security forces were firing at them the internal security forces say they were firing in the air they also released a statement accusing the protesters of using great age and saying that they will use the images from the means. at their disposal in order to defend their positions so the fight for my family they said well in fact in the streets less than yesterday i would say but the anger is still probable is there

a danger that these protests could spread to the capital. well there are been scattered protests not just in the capital but across the country for the past few days people taking to the streets they briefly closed roads and sky yours but the numbers are still it's just a sort of a few dozen a lot of people are still afraid to take to the streets because the approach of virus that has spread into this community of hospitals are overwhelmed and and struggling and it's not just that a lot of people feel that pushing through the streets is not a ploy to there's just no it doesn't bring about any result because they've been protesting for months now since october 2019 demanding a new leadership and nothing has changed they've been met by force this is how the authorities have been responding to cries cries for help from a population that is becoming poorer and poorer as each state stuff is what they

want to save you government right now there's a caretaker government politicians are fighting about the next cabinet instead of trying to solve the country's problems so people don't take into the streets they've been met by another crisis but they've been there less than they've been because they believe the only way forward is early elections so you can hear the chaos here their life the storm the government building the security forces using excessive amounts ok yes but so far today we've been here a few hours no live ammunition has been used and so there is in a hotel reporting live from tripoli lebanon so many thanks dude. a russian course is tonight opposition leader alexina felonies appeal to be released from jail he appeared by video link asking to be be freed before his next hearing of an alleged probation violation of ali 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 more now from an example god for in moscow. violence legal team was arguing that not only didn't have the correct and right access to his lawyers that also there was basically no independent of the court secured because the court was in the police station and the prosecuting part was the police but a judge didn't think anything of that importance so he after a very short of deliberation this missed this appeal and uphold the previous the previous this season when it comes to what is basically the main thing there is the hearing that is coming next week on the charges that he violated his probation what the prison authorities are saying that he didn't report himself as he was supposed to that he didn't report himself when they send the letter to which was like on the

28th in the evening and he was supposed to be on the 29th of december in the morning which was physically impossible and they are not thinking that it is a valid reason that we actually send by proper channels a letter in which he stated that he's in germany where he's recovering from being poisoned and that he needs time to recover from that that he even gave an address but that was not taken into account neither today nor it was taken into account when he was arrested upon upon the landing so what now vialli is saying is that 1st of all the warrant for his arrest is not according to the law neither is his arrest rachel demba is the deputy director for europe and central asia human rights watch she says that russia has used every true at its disposal against the valley. 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 the later proceedings this is an all out front. against against alex and of ali 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 the 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 and that is predictable there's still a question about doing the right thing and the right thing is to speak out the u.s. is temporarily frozen arms sales to saudi arabia and the united arab emirates secretary of state anthony blinken says that it's not unusual for new administrations to review pending home sales in the final hours of donald trump's presidency his administration had agreed to sell 50 f. 35 fighter jets to the u.a.e. well israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu says that he doesn't expect the u.s. review to affect normalization ties with the u.a.e. brokered by the trumpet ministration. i don't think so i think we have passed the point of no return and i think everyone understands now off to mohamed bin ziad as the king of bahrain took this historic step so did king of morocco and so did the leaders of sudan now it is already in

a different stage everyone understands they are huge advantages here it's peace in exchange for peace peace in exchange for prosperity peace in exchange for progress peace in exchange for technology peace in exchange for a future i do not see this happening and i think we need to move forward a team from the world health organization has started its investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic they've ended their 2 week hotel koren seen in han china and will be interviewing people from research institutes hospitals and the seafood market linked to the initial outbreak of zeros katrina new reports now from. after 2 weeks of being confined to their hotel rooms 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 at merion koopman spoke to al jazeera about the immense job ahead. try and get as good as.

finding starting here in. primary on additional studies. trying to you know aggregate everything there is to learn from this initial phase of the mc but more than one year after the beginning of the outbreak experts say the team spines would be limited and discovering the pandemics exact origin will be difficult. and. i think realistically what we're looking at is mission is a narrowing. 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. a research is also planning

a visit here institute a. chinese scientists have studied dangerous pathogens including. former u.s. president. linked from this lab the chinese government has dismissed the claim and has raised questions about the what conducted a u.s. military lab fort detrick in maryland which was shut down in july 21000 information about the early days of the carver 1000 has been tightly controlled but they do. it's been transparent with out in the panda we have no intention to misguide public judgement or the work around these marian could means feels positive about their investigation and has this message for the public the patient 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. will get a weather update thanks to. a dispute between the e.u. the drug maker astra zeneca is deepening we'll have the latest from. a viral photo of u.s. . hopes to grab big bucks for charity. how the weather set fire across southern parts of the arabian peninsula pushed from an all things to all the parts of the middle east we've got some pretty unsettled

weather coming in sliding across cyprus at eastern side of the mediterranean turning to side of a unsettled deficit he 11 in jordan right down into israel and the palestinian territories that cloud on the right will make its way across northern parts of iraq into western areas of iraq continues just not a little further east which is because i wanted to satisfy dry weather comes back in behind for too long i will see more wet weather and some more windy weather as you make the way to the 2nd half of the weekend that we go further south is fine and dry and warm up nicely here in doha temperatures getting up every pleasant 26 degrees celsius that dry weather stretches across the gulf of aden somalia laos you drive that's in club so showers there into the democratic republic of congo i was some west a weather crossed was the gulf of guinea still seeing some life showers coming out of southern angola pushing into that eastern side of namibia sliding across botswana we see some what's the weather still in place there remnants resist squeezing out the last drops of what was tropical cycle and

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hello again this is al jazeera that's remind you of the main news this hour security forces in lebanon the firing tear gas and water cannon the protesters in tripoli they're angry at lockdown measures government corruption at a failing economy. russia's most prominent opposition leader alexina vali is calling for mass protests after a court ruled that he should be kept in jail he's accused of violating parole by leaving germany with 4 germany rather where he was being treated for poisoning a team from the world health organization has ended its 2 week hotel quarantine and on china it will now begin investigating the origins of the corona virus trying to make after months of to lay. a more assertive approach to libya is a merging from a view by the ministration of a u.n. security council beating the u.s. deputy ambassador calls for the immediate withdrawal of turkish

a russian forces let's go straight to our diplomatic it to james bays who's at the u.n. in new york for more what's the significance of this james. first let me tell you where we are in libya it's almost 10 years since the start of the uprising it's one year since that big international conference in berlin to try and get the into national community on the same page now that didn't work initially but there is some some good news from the outgoing un acting special envoy stephanie williams she says there is a region of a nation in libya following the cease fire deal that was brokered on october the 23rd she says that ceasefire is holding that's the good news but she also says there is blatant foreign interference continuing in libya and that line was picked up by the u.s. this is the 1st meeting on libya since the biden ministration has been in office the deputy ambassador of korea state department official richard mills in the chair

giving an indication of the new biden policy and it was a strong statement calling out individual countries we call all external parties to include russia turkey and the u.a.e. to respect libyan sovereignty and immediately cease all military intervention in libya per the october cease fire agreement we call on turkey and russia to immediately initiate their withdrawal of their forces from the country and the removal of the foreign mercenaries and military proxies that they have recruited financed deployed and supported in libya. and in the last few moments we've had a right to reply from the russian representative of that security council meeting saying there are no russian military personnel in libya of course we know that there are operatives from the wagon a group and mercenary group which obviously is based in russia and many diplomats

believe has direction from the russian authorities this i think will also. concentrate minds in turkey and the us a about how they're going to need to deal with the new biden administration remember with regard to the united arab emirates the biden ministrations put on hold that huge 23000000000 dollars arms deal that included f. $35.00 jets i was there as diplomatic as a james space reporting live from the u.n. in new york james many thanks indeed highly infectious south african variant of the corona virus has reached the united states 2 infections were confirmed in the state of south carolina neither of the cases had any travel history or any contact with each other officials say it suggests it's already spreading in the community in germany as vaccine panel looks likely to recommend astra zeneca jab only for people under the age of $65.00 and a draft recommendation the committee says there isn't enough data on how effective

it is all those who are older european regulators are set to issue their decision on the vaccine on friday has been growing tension between astra zeneca and the e.u. after the drug company said the delivery of millions of doses would be delayed because of supply chain issues al-jazeera is dominic cain has more from berlin. astra zeneca vaccine is not officially vailable for use in across the entire e.u. until it's approved by the e.u. now the approval process is supposed to happen tomorrow on friday but interestingly we have seen here in berlin that the scientific commission which advises the german government the german health ministry about vaccine approvals and that sort of thing is said that because of an insufficiency of data regarding the way that the vaccine operates in those over 65 that it believes that the vaccine should not be approved for those over $65.00 until more data has been collated and has been

analyzed now interesting lee the federal health minister who in effect that commission reports to the end sram the federal health minister has said has played down this these suggestions that there's anything definitive there because of course the decision might devolve to him anyway certainly in germany and he said well let's wait to see how things. are decided upon at the e.u. level which will happen on friday one final thought then we know that public health england which would be the regulator e body which would approve vaccine uptake in use in england anyway which has already approved the use of astra zeneca as vaccine has said that it understands this idea that there is not a great deal of data about the performance of the vaccine in the over 60 five's but that 1st analysis has been very reassuring it's only has the world's 2nd oldest population of europe's 2nd highest coronavirus death toll many elderly people social distancing means being isolated from families for

a long time especially those in care homes but those are the serious stuff the decker reports from avellino in southern italy some have come up with an idea that's bringing affection and touch back after nearly a year of distance. who am i asked his mother my. i'm luigi he reminds her it's all a little overwhelming. with the mask is the fuel in the plastic bag here shows the if you go to 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 a lot of. it will pass she tells him everything passes didn't do her posture to the rest of them of their own opinion 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 $80000.00 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 off to 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. 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 one's. touch even through plastic has become so very precious these days. i want to go home media pleads with her son he tells her not to cry this pandemic has made the pain of loneliness and there are even worse stephanie decker al-jazeera avellino in

southern italy. pakistan's supreme court has ordered the release of the man convicted and then acquitted of the murder of the us journalist daniel pearl in 2002 british born omar saeed shaykh has been found guilty of abducting the journalist was sentenced to death and said beg reports. 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 it 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 here chaired contrary to his position for the last 15 years he'd make it there he had to rule he says here the minor role

in the induction and murder of daniel pearl arundel because of his minor role he had asked there to sentence be deduced and more importantly he also said their team knew. their 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 sheikh 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 break. a new court ruling has come into force in poland that makes abortion almost totally illegal that's despite women holding the biggest protests in recent history to oppose the verdict tens of thousands took to the streets on wednesday nights of more demonstrations planned a course in frankfurt

a sentence the man who killed the politician look in 2019 to life in prison the co was a prominent voice in favor of accepting refugees and migrants stephon ernst have already admitted to killing him ahead of the court's verdict he shot the christian democratic politician outside his home saudi arabia has begun to deport thousands of ethiopian migrants detained in the kingdom. these images show the 1st batch of nearly $300.00 men arriving in at a suburb they made the dangerous trip across the horn of africa through yemen and into saudi arabia looking for work ethiopia says that it hopes to repair treat at least 1000 workers every week democratic republic of congo's prime minister has accepted a vote of no confidence in his government parliament voted to oust him on wednesday it's seen as a major political victory for president felix kady as his predecessor and rival joseph kabila had backed the prime minister. us such

a buddy saunders is raising millions of dollars for charity using a popular meme of him and his mittens it comes at a time when millions of americans are struggling to put food on the table under chappelle reports. the senator from vermont became the unlikeliest of fashion icons at the inauguration by wearing woolly 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 merchandise 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 to be king was inspired to make a doll of the senator it fetched 40000 dollars on

e bay it's very inspiring like how it will matter your political views one of the main goals is to help people how can you not like somebody who wants to donate you meals on wheels you know anything 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. it's good to have you with us highway dreams that are going to hear a doha the headlines now just sirrah security forces in lebanon are firing tear gas and water cannon the protesters in tripoli who are angry at lockdown measures government corruption at a failing economy the previous night one person was killed 200 people were injured al-jazeera.