her story the forward. 0. hello i'm watching the news hour live from london coming up in the next 60 minutes . after a 4th night of clashes in the lebanese city of tripoli fueled by anger over the strict coronavirus lockdown. pakistan supremum court orders the release of the man convicted of masterminding the kidnapping and murder of journalist daniel pearl

a russian court rejects kremlin critic alexina valley's appeal against his detention and stock surges for u.s. retailer game stop abruptly ended as trading platforms deal a blow to amateur investors in their battle against the wall street professionals i'm german ash with sports at the olympics and not in doubt that's according to organizers in tokyo you say none of the upon us of raised objections to hosting the games in july. so welcome to the news our main story protesters in northern lebanon are refusing to back down as anger rises over corruption a collapsed economy and the impact of a strict code 19 lockdown they've been rallying for a 4th night in lebanon's forrest city more than half the people in tripoli live below the poverty line and it's also home to some of lebanon's richest and most

powerful people to protesters have now died after wednesday's demonstrations and raging people further they blame the government for mishandling the corona virus outbreak which has led to a harsh lockdown many say is destroying their livelihoods. gone but we prefer through demonstrations withdrawing anyway at the same time the should not long to us regarding the coronavirus. tripoli to this current situation is that all of the cities became richer all the expense of tripoli you have no place to go we have no education no tourist attractions everyone else in the country protests getting shot why are we deprived to these extent you know the people of iraq. so these are some of the pictures from the clashes which took place on wednesday appearing to show security forces using live ammunition to disperse dozens of protesters police say they were responding to hand grenades that was thrown up by demonstrators al

jazeera saying no one has been reporting on this story from tripoli another night of protests another night of violence in lebanon 2nd largest city dozens of protesters have been injured over recent days to protesters killed the situation on the ground is estimated that there is a lot of anger people initially took to the streets to protest the coronavirus lockdown this is that the government is not for letting the poor and the bundle go with financial assistance in order to cope with the loss but know that that lockdown exacerbated the deep economic crisis in the so she. was already collapsing before that lockdown so most of these people are unemployed those who. work in the sector which means they live day by day if they don't work so they can feed their kids and this city has long been impoverished before the pandemic was

1st detected last year so a lot of anger in the streets they're saying that they're not they want a new leadership in fact. in fact there has been a popular uprising in lebanon for more than a year now people have been holding protests in other cities as well on and off they've largely fizzled out because for. of all the response of the states of militarized states arrest the tensions heavy handed tactics to clamp down on protests movements so and of course we also have. the corona virus spreading among the community it's not clear whether or not the situation can be contained in the days ahead but this is a country for over a year now there have been social unrest political turmoil and as the our economy collapse more and more people are are drowning in poverty the u.n.

says 55 percent of the population are now poor and this is a small nation of 5000000 people one 3rd of the workforce employed so difficult a tense situation in this city. let's now speak to monk down he's a professor of communications that american university of beirut joins us via skype and i ask what you're hearing about the latest developments from tripoli we are hearing reports about the use of live ammunition against protesters a disproportionate use of force do you expect me on rest to get worse. it has been getting worse this is the 4th mind in a row it started and it's escalating and every time those people are protesting specially in the youth all the way in tripoli it what they're trying to basically say is we've got no food we've got no protection and we've got no jobs give us some support and what the answer was sending the army and the police and with rubber

bullets and tear gas for 4 days in the row so basically what the government is currently saying is we cannot solve this problem so we are going to fight it and that is exactly what they're doing with 2 dead and hundreds injured and a lot of private and public property already destroyed the government has yet to declare any initiatives to support the city with the highest unemployment rate in the country the 2nd biggest city and one of the poorest in all of the military and . when you speak about the way in which the government has handled this is it possible for the political elite a caretaker administration to provide some sort of emergency plan for financial relief without the government actually being formed. and there has already been 2 executive decisions one but the president and there has been a parliamentary

a lot of vote for about a $1200000000000.00 lebanese europe which is enough to basically pay for all those being challenged by cause of it to sustain an acceptable living standard but the government has yet to do those payments and initial payment of around $100.00 per family was supposed to be paid out but it stopped because the numbers and the lists heard by the ministry of social affairs had many errors in them so they had to cancel them because they had names of people who had already died and others who no longer live in the country so the problem is not that the decision or the legality of getting the money the problem is and minister it of one there is no real intent or seriousness and providing those people the support the laws have been enacted the resolutions out been taken and the decisions are are out there it's only about

the finance ministry giving up the money and the ministry of social affairs identifying the right for people to collect but money so basically in capacity off the government to actually deliver what it's supposed to deliver in that's own decisions has led us to this in eventually i mean i don't i mean do you see the government then responding to these protests could this pressure on the government then expedite that process in some way. it definitely would because it's only a matter of time before other cities feel the same the weakest link in the country which is tripoli the poor city just took action but at the same time but are protests in beirut there are protests inside than in the south there are protests in 4 to 5 cities and that has been escalating if that goes over the edge i don't think government will be able to send the troops to occupy their own citizens they

have to find a solution they have to pay the money and they have to get their act together because people will not stay out for among suffering for the 3rd lockdown without any support from government it is a confluence of crisis there in the country isn't it thank you very much professor mark dow from the american university of beirut thank you. want to take a look at what's happening in portugal now because the government has extended a nationwide lockdown and an ounce limits on international travel as it scrambles to contain what might be the world's worst surging coronavirus cases they have been over 300 new deaths and more than 16000 cases in the past 24 hours that's a wreck or daily rise more than a quarter of portugal's 11600 deaths from cova 19 have been in the past 2 weeks alone it's a small country but has the world's highest 7 day average of new cases and deaths

in proportion to the population or certainly who really really is equal with the situation very close to the limits in terms of physical resources and already difficult to deal with in terms of what we heard the medics nurses available which is a limited number this means that in a few weeks' time in february we live have a situation in which we stop being able to respond to the lack of medical personnel . meanwhile german health officials of course fresh doubt on the efficacy of the astra zeneca coronavirus vaccine as a route of a supplies in europe continues and approvals panel says that it should only be used for people under the age of 65 because there's not enough data about the impact on the elderly european regulators are due to issue their decision on friday while the european commission has demanded belgian authorities inspect an astra zeneca plant in the country after the company said deliveries in the e.u. would be delayed its lead to threats of export blocks and arguments over contracts domenic came in berlin has more. 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 kill a tit 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 re 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. in brazil the president has vowed to quickly vaccinate everybody in the country a change of tone as his popularity levels full brazilians have been angered by the slow vaccine rollout by. government countries struggling with a 2nd wave of infections and now has recorded more than 220000 deaths has been widely criticized for his handling of the pandemic and says he won't take the vaccine himself want to ghana who joins us live now from rio de janeiro he says that he won't take the job but at the same time wants to try and lacks innate

everyone in the country as soon as possible what else is the president been saying . well he's they he's he gives mixed messages as always he's been saying yes that they want to do it as fast as they can brazil was pretty late starting. it has vaccinated half half of one percent of the population so far but on the other saw any has. he his tone of criticism isn't as it used to be specially towards china china brazil has the state of some polish from brazil brazilian state of something which is the richest state had an agreement with china to produce and to distribute the. corona. and bowl so now to was criticizing the chinese who also supply material for the astra zeneca vaccine which will also be produced in brazil so in that sense

he did lower his tone towards china he is saying that vaccination should go should happen fast but on the other hand today he said that governors and mayors should think twice about taking restriction measures some of them are doing that because this variant of the 2nd variant of the corona virus is spreading fast and he said you should think twice about that because lockdowns those things don't work and the economy should walk hand in hand with the life and that variant in the country has been really domin and in the northern part of the country particularly in. the situation has been deteriorating is that been any change. the situation is better in the sense that the government is paying attention and the world they're paying attention to my mouse so there have been donations oxygen

has been shipped the health minister has been sent to my mouse but on the other hand there's corruption so the mayor of my mouth is being accused of having and his staff of having jumped the line and taken shots before the people that should be taking shots which are the health workers and the elderly so there's a valid point the health minister himself is being investigated about whether he mishandled or not the crisis in my mouse and something else that worries people is the former health minister of brazil who was fired by both. he's saying since my mouse has has been shipping some of its patients to other states because the health system collapsed that this could be spreading this new variant throughout the country so yes people are worried about this right now when i can take care of in rio de janeiro thank you when all the stories are watching

coronavirus deaths in one of america's states might have been grossly underestimated according to a new report an investigation by new york's attorney general has found deaths in might be more than 50 percent higher than the official reports a study discrepancies in the number of fatalities reported by state officials mcadams themselves. we have to make sense of this we have to get the full truth and we have to make sure it never ever happens again nothing like this happens again and we have to be honest about the numbers. with the news hour live from london much more still ahead on the program power of touch how italian families are getting closer again a year after that last hug. has been more anger on the streets of poland as the government makes almost all in portions illegal. and in s'pore now those romantic

holiday is under investigation of the possibly breaking italy's ban on travel. to. the white house says it's outraged after pakistan's supremes court ordered the release of a man convicted for the murder of u.s. journalist daniel pearl 19 years ago were jewish born ahmed omar saeed shaykh was given a death sentence back in 2002 last year he confessed to a role in the kidnapping but not the killing assad bakehouse 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 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 year chaired one tree to his position for the last 15 years he'd make it they're here 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 reduced 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 buck 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 by the quartet 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 them or side share a travesty of justice and a danger to journalists everywhere and the people of pakistan are such break.

joining us via skype from the united states has us from the money issue is a friend and colleague of daniel part of all street journal and is a co-founder of the power project investigation into this matter as we're hearing at the end of us as report that daniel pearl's family have condemned this decision can you i'm not sure if you've been in touch with them but can you tell us any more about how they are coping with the release of these men well danny's family is amazing they are grace expressed in this world they know that none nothing can bring their son back but they are still fighting for justice and they view today's ruling as a real injustice we have some breaking news right now where the attorney general has declared that they will file an appeal to this decision and so that is good news a hope that any buddy any militant any state sponsor of any tax on journalists will always be held responsible so as the u.s. you mentioned the news there about

a tiny general has. a representative from the u.s. government been directly in touch with the family it seems as though they will now be pursuing this case. yet this was the attorney general in pakistan so the government in pakistan will file that appeal but we have been in touch with the u.s. justice department and the state department and they are now in discussions with the government of pakistan as you know they are ready to extradite omar shaykh because he was indicted in the u.s. court for danny's kidnapping and then also the earlier kidnapping of an american in delhi so you know i know that your viewers can appreciate that when danny was murdered in 2000 to the entire. to jack tree for journalists around the world change we ended up with targets on our backs reporters from. reporters all over the world whether it's from militants or state sponsors

of. persecution against journalists and so danny's case isn't just about this one human being it's about protecting the integrity of journalism and protecting this noble role that danny had been doing in this world and so we're hoping that both the u.s. government in pakistan government will do the right thing here of course but i guess it's going to take some time before perhaps a very is any definitive accountability in the case what any your fare is about this verdict of the repercussions it could have for the safety of journalists. it's she really serious fears that i have for not only journalists because there are lawyers the police officers just regular citizens in pakistan who have stood up with great courage against to this network that took danny's life i fear for them i fear for safety of journalists all around pakistan and then also around the world

because then you get the sense that you can get away with murder and that's not a message that we need to sand plus i also fear for you know just regular citizens of this time because it's all marsh acres out set free he'll just be in the streets again and he is the terrorist he is a diabolical criminal and he will lay a trap for criminality against others you know it is very difficult for me to ever say that i feel that human being is going to do evil in this world but he will do evil in this world to innocent people if he is set free. thank you for joining us today on the news are us are on the money friend and colleague of daniel pearl of the wall street journal cofounder now of the pope project investigation into his murder thank you for your time thank you so much. or now

to developments in russia there been more protests more process of being planned in the country after a judge rejected alexina vollies appeal to be released from prison the prominent kremlin critic will remain in jail until a hearing on alleged parole violations can be held next month the volley was arrested after returning from germany where he was being treated for a poisoning that's been blamed on the kremlin but he's have since raided his offices and the homes of his allies so in a gaggle reports. the latest arrests connected to russian opposition leader. this time targeting those closest to him. police raided the apartment of his brother and detained his wife yulia at the a promise they rented not even allowing access to her lawyer. we say that a series of raids on members of the n.t. corruption foundation were launched on thursday it's a clear and prejudiced violation of the right of defense as a lawyer i consider that yulia has rights have been violated.

i greeted the police with music as they came to her door to arrest her. when alex saying that only appeared in court through video conference from prison he told the judge he had been denied access to his own lawyer you are i understand my rights i want to draw the attention of the court to the front but since i've been to tell you and i've not had a single opportunity to meet with my lawyers in private not a single one night at the police station nor at the detention center i since saturday when tens of thousands of people protested across russia in anti kremlin demonstrations more than 3000 people have been arrested. because. you have only who president vladimir putin betty was was to blame it's becoming a concern for the russian leader especially since worsening living standards in

russia are doing little to come public anger this is an all out front against alex and of all the him 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 again about about corruption the like they have that they have they really they have spared no effort to undermine and to undermine the law in washington president joe biden's new secretary of state made clear how the administration sees russia's treatment of the opposition leader we have a deep concern for mr involve the safety and and security and the larger point is that. his voice is the voice of many many many russians and it should be heard not i as russian authorities continue to take tough the measures against the opposition it is unlikely that will deter and of all these

supporters for the kremlin is detractors any time soon so no diagonal al-jazeera. a german neo nazi who killed a pro immigration politician in 2019 has been sentenced to life in prison 7 urns shot dead while to look outside his own home the co is a member of chancellor angela merkel's party in a prominent voice in favor of accepting refugees and migrants had already admitted to killing him ahead of the court's verdict case raised questions about whether germany was doing enough to tackle right wing violence for dnd as an out of the court has rightly given the legal huge propre sentence for this murder a life long sentence and it was also for a motion for the severity of the crime as well as preventative detention. abortion is now illegal in almost all cases in poland after government imposed a controversial new ruling 2nd night of protests have been taking place in central warsaw as women with procedures scheduled pull to vie services in

a panic in is now allowed only in cases of right incest or when the mother's life is at risk the original decision in october sparked weeks of protests drive on the exact opposite it was a black night for women not only women doctors to of course women took to the streets to protest a protest that was organized literally within one hour but it harms the hospital's there were women who already had appointments made for today or tomorrow who either had prenatal tests done or scheduled because their ultrasound exams revealed suspected fetal defects these women frozen hora they did not know what to do with. with the news hour live from london much more still to tell you about while the health experts get to work in mohan but warn they might never discover where the corona virus came from we look at why great students don't want to see police in 100 best case spying crime right creasing on campus. and manchester united says

social media companies missed you want to stop but you stop to to have that player suffer a racial slur that's coming up with janet in this fall. how high that we've got much smaller approaching into western parts of the year 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 pumping into decidedly colder air is it does what rain we do have coming in from the west were really turned to snow on the leading flanks will 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 its way 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 to 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. from. february on al-jazeera on our street to access to iran's nuclear program is about to end will u.s. president joe biden overturn trump sanctions and help rebuild relations al-jazeera

said so to the journey to the heart of what it means to be a true supporter of the beautiful game the us has the highest prove it 1000 count in the world the new administration has promised to turn that around we'll have extensive coverage of the big picture reveals how the perfect storm of events in 2020 exposed the truth about race at the top to the united states and as president joe biden embarks on his 1st month in the white house we'll bring you the latest developments escape attempts to repair global relationships february on al-jazeera . india beauty 2000000 people have been excluded from the least of citizen. one i want a speech the families of all i said to her by the long. we move through to.

land. back on main story this hour hundreds of people in the lebanese city of tripoli have protested for a 4th day in a rather ironic way the government from posing a harsh coronavirus lock down which many say is destroying their livelihoods and are on the headlines the white house is saying it's outraged after pakistan's supreme court ordered the release of a man convicted of beheading the american journalist daniel pearl ahmed omar saeed shaykh was the main suspect in the 2002 kidnapping and murder of the wall street journal reporter. and in russia the most powerful opposition figure alexina valley will remain in jail after a court dismissed an appeal against his detention it was arrested after returning from germany where he was being treated for a poisoning is being blamed on the kremlin. now vietnam is reporting its 1st outbreak of corona virus cases in nearly 2 months 84 infections

were recorded in the 2 northern provinces the largest one day total of 2 new cases the country's recorded it so far succeeded in keeping the pandemic up by a recording an official total of just $35.00 cases the outbreak comes in the middle of a 5 year communist party congress that's taking place. this is a situation where we have a community infection after 55 days of no cases in our country but this is something we are again used to many times over this time we have to tackle the outbreak with more aggressive faster and decisive actions. a global team of experts is funny but allowed to begin searching the chinese city where covert 19 was 1st found for clues as to its origin world health organization that group has been held in quarantine but there are already concerns about how much access they'll actually be able to get as katrina you reports for mohan they don't expect to find any aunts

is immediately. 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 . even quarantine team members marian koopman spoke to al jazeera about the immense job ahead in the whole process is try and get as good as possible of the initial findings starting here in. the colleague's. 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 would be limited and discovering the pandemics exact origin will be difficult it is very unwise we're going to our interest. which i'm sure is going to cause. different

international. groups and states. i think realistically what we're looking at with this mission is a narrowing. of a very wide set of options. those options include exploring the theory the virus was 1st transmitted from a wild animal such as a bat and that it 1st circulated in. good. research is also planning a visit here institute of the years chinese scientists have studied dangerous pathogens including corner viruses for me. don't try to allege that quivered 19 linked 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 29th teena information about the early days of the curve 1000 been tightly controlled but they

doing insists it's been transparent without them in the pan we have no intention to misguide public judgment or the w.h.o. to work on these marian commitments 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 bertha and china have 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 on. italy has the world's 2nd oldest population in europe 2nd highest coronavirus death toll for many elderly people social distancing means being isolated from their families for a long time but as stephanie decker ports now one group of camps has come up with

an idea that's bringing the affection back. who am i asked his mother might. be a good m luigi he reminds her it's all a little overwhelming. with the mosque is the few worked in the plastic barrier 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 if it terribly missed during this pandemic threat aspect father and daughter kiss for only the 2nd time in a year laughter they are a group of over 4 of them it will pass she tells him everything passes didn't do her posture to the most of them of their own got bigger 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 borneo. if you will my dream is to hug or my relatives again to have company to see happiness for a spall to be together. box nation 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 so you know the vaccine is. the 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. i want to go home madea pleads with her son he tells her not to cry this pandemic has made the pain of loneliness the mother of iraq even worse stephanie decker al-jazeera avellino in southern italy. israel's prime minister is warn the united states against rejoining the iran nuclear agreement saying it would be a grave mistake as comes a day after the new us secretary of state said it would be one of the by the

ministrations top priorities it was. ok if we go back to the current deal then it's a mistake this deal didn't stop iran from taking all the money and relief it received and didn't invest it in iran for the benefit of its citizens but in a campaign for occupation in yemen iraq syria everywhere africa it didn't bring us peace but only cruel occupation and a lot of terrorism we can't go back to this deal i think it will be a mistake and i hope also they won't do it. on netanyahu also played down a temporary freeze of u.s. arms sales to the u.a.e. and saudi arabia saying he doesn't expect it to affect normalization deals with arab states brokered by former president donald trump. i don't think so i think we have passed the point of no return and i think everyone understands now after mohamed bin zire 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. there is a force that is following developments from western 7 explains the significance of the weapons and aircraft agreements the sale of these jets was seen by many analysts as very much a part of pressure by the united states really the way that they encouraged. states to move towards israel in this way some analysts are also talking about whether the new biden ministration might be able to use the prospects of future normalization deepening the existing ones as a way to try to influence the israeli government to. the concessions or some concessions at least towards the palestinians at least this to some extent this

does show that there is some influence and labels the united states by the fact that they have paused the sale. just a quick bit of news from the iran government saying that it's killed a senior eisel commander. is set to been killed by security forces and an operation which took place in cook sally had claimed to be i sold a leader in iraq. or now students in greece have been protesting against a controversial bill that would create a new branch of the police the university's government says the force is needed to fight violent crime but students are worried officers will crack down on political protests charles who operates reports from athens. thousands of students turned out to challenge the government's proposal to place police on university campuses it's not just students who oppose it so do their teachers give us the money or body not

banning the police can already enter campuses why does there have to be a constant presence can the government tell us even during the dictatorship we didn't have a constant police presence why now military rulers in greece used the army and police to break up a student protest at the athens polytechnic in 1973 when democracy was restored it became illegal for police to enter campuses but many people used universities to escape arrest so the government lifted their immunity from police entry in 2019 but lawlessness continues police recovered $200000.00 worth of equipment stolen by intruders from the athens polytechnic last year to be sold on the black market and last october 8 assailants held a university rector hostage in his office and vandalized it the government now wants to introduce a campus police empowered to arrest and charge those considered troublemakers and

disciplinary boards with power to suspend or expelled students the main problem is created by from people who come from outside we have not university students so i strongly believe that 90 percent of the problem is going to be sold we think production of the checking of the people who enter the inverse the building. police forces are needed for their arrest 10 percent but students say they fear police more than criminals and their reaction has found political allies in opposition parties those just the only thing the government is achieving is to irritate an already vex society and a student body that is anxious about its future and it's giving the kiss of life to extremists specifically the left wing series opposition the government finds it's all politically isolated and seems to have been taken by surprise the bill was supposed to have been discussed in parliament on thursday but has now been

withdrawn and definitely this government has faced a series of crisis during its 18 months in office with talking with refugees the pandemic behind the comic recession but this is the 1st time it is supposed to be serious street protests the government has the votes it needs and parliament but the students are claiming the streets and that can influence what happens. to wall street hedge funds and make a profit by trading shaz in falling businesses. i'm now

joined via skype by form a london city trader gary stephenson now an economist specializing in inequality gary stopped by explaining to us why so much money was piled into game stop in the 1st place. you not. for the background concepts need to understand what's happening in us if so they've got us a coat crisis that everyone else who lost their jobs at the last incomes and they're sitting on not be able to make much money at the same time u.s. stock markets explode it's nearly double since march. some stocks are test about 6 times and wasn't doubled so people are sitting on it might want to work not of next month and seeing the super rich get even super rich up as the stock price is going to. understand straight or i'm not thinking we want to give all this is what we want to find a way to make some income so it was in a similar circumstance in the government to try and lessen the stock market so

we've gone google it and search around and on which the problem as you call it. bets where people talk about up the stock market and this are really not do you. respond specific stock game stock game stock which is massively short you. he's had a chance in wall street and it said if we can stop push the glass up will become impossible please and toss them in 10 shorts we can push the price up and it has been about the. process and we've met most of pockets and it's been phenomenal really works in rights and just to be short selling it's a way of making money by betting that the company's share price is going to decline that it's going to fall so how i mean what was the what was the psychology behind this you got some people that believed in the company and then others pile in because they think there's going to be a profit to be made and then it's just i mean it's just the cycle i mean i think it's going to says there's a greater transparency probably which is it issued some people are that

a stock which was volatile there are a lot of them but the betting was going to go down if there was enough but it could get pushed up but i guess it was a look there right now work is not working for them and they're looking for ways to make what. they're one of those messages or what to start and you know it's a similar dynamic to seeing things like clinical test that sit people are out there not making money and it shut and find a way to make things work and not only that there's going to choose about money this is the last example the us that actually get that money spilling out of the system and people are trying to find ways to make money in system where you can't really make money to work so increased as you go to people that are missing our friends making money and more and more people. how is this going to end up people end up losing a lot of money even though there's already been this nears the robinhood in our they're. trying to well free trading firms have announced that they're going to stop it in a stop trades on

a game stop. i'm going to ask you that because i think it's really who wants to get you know us not i'm not going to see what's happening it doesn't see what's happened because see what's going to test are you going to be think you are missing out money. when this. is some local charlotte schools are across that school is out really really fast really quickly it is inevitable across the collapse at some point and my concern is that the people who started this probably up confession investors who knew what they were doing they're only getting out now and other people are seen as the news that you can't even. i'm worried that we're going to keep all our struggling to get by to select shots my partner is going and at some point to be smart that you want to eat in the stock up since it could be ordinary working people that aren't in the stock and lose the money that goes up gary thank you very much for helping guide us through this maze appreciate it gary stevenson. still ahead.

we'll. let you take. some of the australian open tennis players have started to be released from their 14 day lockdown gemma will have that story in the sports.

for. sam is here this fall thank you maria take care of them pick organizes say them main potus have raised 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.

said on wednesday that whole of the games would not be irresponsible and that it's a question of how not if the price that expect to release a playbook seen to explain how they plan to get thousands of athletes to compete safely. so she was a no show up after talking with everyone and asking them about their thoughts the i.o.c. president thomas back told us that no one from anywhere raised questions or objections and everyone wants to make you take your game to success. the athletes are largely supportive of the olympics going ahead even if it's without fans sport crime is set to make its debut at the games and 6 time watch champion young have gone bright as one of his high point to shine and take. that would be a noble of the well in the olympic village and like right after you finish the commissions you go home so i think there's a lot there's nothing to worry a ball because i know that everything will be planned and it will be safe we've

kind of gotten pushed to the side a little bit but you carrie. you carrie you can't push the most prolific. in all of mankind through the charge you know i guess ultimately i have to trust my own instincts as well and i won't know how i feel until i'm in that position and know the current state of the world and everything going on time so yeah i'm hoping that everything will be in place you know the kind of feel safe and be right that's something that we've got to be ready for some of the australian i have been tennis players confined to their rooms for 14 days have started to be released. here on. the room here. the 1st group were allowed out earlier on thursday but some would have to wait longer until as late as sunday afternoon before they get out a total of 960 players coaches and staff and been in full lockdown there's

a positive $1000.00 cases on their flights they have sat there so far being 8 positive cases linked to the tournament which starts on february the 8th christiane i went out i was under investigation by italian police for going on a ski trip which might have broken that 19 rules the event is forward took his girlfriend to the resort of core wire for her birthday which is 150 kilometers from children where they live the pair went on the 2 day trip despite non-essential travel between regions band a video appeared on social media of the 2 writing want to snail mail but it's since been taken down now days of former site at manchester united have called on social media companies to strengthen measures to prevent racial abuse after 2 of their players were targeted anstey massey alan x. were 2 and xavi were abused on instagram and twitter that was after the team's its one to feed to sheffield united to his a.b. pace it this figure on his account in response with the caption my race my religion

my color equals football twitter and facebook which owns instagram say there's no place for racism on their platforms. the chelsea boss of thomas 2 has been speaking about the club's reputation for sacking manages the german repriced at frank lampard this week and saw his side draw a no no with wolves on wednesday chelsea owner roman abramovich has got rid of 14 opponent coaches since arriving at the club in 2003 so this is something that worries to him. yes and no on this level on this level where absolutely grateful that i can work on this level it's like this if you sign in for chelsea you sign in for the hunger of titles you sign in for being absolutely competitive in every competition you play i'm totally aware of that. young. like you said but the doesn't it's getting full time between tottenham and

liverpool with both sides looking to close the gap on the premier league's top 3 and it's a live report leading this one to 31 that ends their run of 4 league games without to go with the champions if it stays this way when our 4 points behind leaders manchester city instead but stay 6. 6 nations is going head next month despite all of the competing countries being in lock down champions england away from the defense of that title against scotland on february 6th that had courage eddie jones has been isolating after having close contact with one of his staff members who tested positive for corona virus he insists his team enter the tournament knowing full well of the role they play in the pandemic. because it's different and it can be trying it tones but the opportunity we've got to do something that we love doing when everyone else is struggling so much you know you just look at the news to that a $100000.00 in the world lost it's the rights in the world so it's a tough time for society and we want to make sure because we've got this all

something special we go with with a lot of gratitude and a lot of desire and a lot of enthusiasm but as a south african player the top of the leaderboard of golf defied as a classic richard stanny produced an impressive opening round which saw him but he not holes this is a shot of the 15 sets at one of the studies 8 under par overall that's a one shot clay of the failed. and just time to share some impressive pictures from scotland this is scottish mountain bike danny mccaskill he used to traveling the world to get his adrenaline fix but you to crave it travel restrictions his latest challenge a little closer to home this is him riding down at the deuce labs on the isle of skye which is 610 metres high a very brave man and i think it's a seriously impressive show and that is amazing isn't it yeah i actually know he's got over 500000000 views on you tube a guy who gets the news out of it. it's

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