civilians while we listen to the only music you hear is. the most beautiful music in the world the silence we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that. just 0. this is al-jazeera. fellow on the clock this is a new life and coming up the next 60 minutes the list of countries imposing travel restrictions grows as governments try to keep out the new highly contagious covert 19 straight. tens of millions of people in the european union the face of poverty the u.n. report says the blot policies are hurting not helping efforts to tackle the problem

. or rotting in the impact bricks it is having on the u.k.'s animal farmers and meats processes. we meet the afghans scared for their lives as violence insists they're choosing to leave everything behind in search for a safe but uncertain future. i'm jammin actuates boards at manchester united and frank osland right now i'm looking to cut the gap to pragmatic leaders manchester city is gone 4 points clear at stop after a while now and for sheffield united. so a year ago on this day the world health organization declared covert 1000 a public health emergency of international concern well 12 months on countries are facing a new threat from highly contagious strains forcing several nations to impose travel restrictions to keep their citizens safe front so. people traveling from non e.u.

countries are not welcome for now singapore has suspended its so-called travel bubble with malaysia and to south korea germany and south africa joins a growing list of countries being put on a u.s. travel ban since the pandemic began more than 2000000 people have died and 102000000 people have been infected there's hope that new be approved vaccines will help contain covert 19 and so far 6 have been rolled out but the mutated strains of the virus are causing further challenges it's unclear how effective the vaccines will be against these new strains now the barber has more now from london on the latest travel restrictions in europe. firstly on saturday the czech republic has banned all nonessential travel into the country from anywhere although there are exemptions for things like commuting for work and for family visits a reminder of those steps we saw last year from several countries in central europe

mainly which are effectively stopped at the schengen free movement zone within the e.u. now another country that's acting to close its borders is france it's going from sunday to stop all non-essential travel from outside the european union but not from within the e.u. there would also be exemptions for people like holy as delivering vital goods so the u.k. for example has been reassuring people here that lorry drivers can can still travel across the channel john kass decks the prince prime minister is under pressure because a week ago he's main scientific advisor said there should probably be a 3rd national lockdown pretty soon he doesn't want to do that because public patience has already been tested he's stepping up checks on the nighttime curfew on things like restaurant circle osing and private gatherings trying desperately to avoid that lockdown here in the u.k.

in the last 24 hours there have been press reports of thousands of u.k. citizen stranded in the united arab emirates because the government here has just placed a travel ban on anyone coming back from there they're saying that people should find alternative routes and let's get the situation in the united states we can speak to carol it's under joins us from washington d.c. and gabe in north america like everywhere else big concerns about the cave invariants and restrictions are being tough and where you are. yeah they are specifically when it comes to public transportation late on friday the c.d.c. announced that it is now a mandated order from the c.d.c. that anyone trying traveling on any form of public transportation in the united states now is required to wear a mask this would be for airplanes trains buses subways ferries even a ride share vehicles here and you might be asking yourself wait weren't masts

required already in public transport and united states the answer to that is yes and no it was but it was suggested by the c.d.c. up until now but individually airlines in the airline industry and and different cities that have public transportation and buses and subways it was left up to them individually to really enforce it or set the standards well now it's federally mandated and it goes into effect at midnight on monday it's a pretty sweeping order by the c.d.c. and it's now going to require anybody who steps foot on any form of public transport in the u.s. to have a face mask and even specify that has to be a proper a face covering not just a scarf or a handkerchief as some people here in the united states uses say that simply will not cut it and you'd be open to being kicked off of the public transport or being fined by the federal government for anyone that does not comply or gave thanks for

the. reporting there from washington d.c. well let's bring in. these infectious disease doctor and see the sculler jones hope consent of health security joins us from pittsburgh pennsylvania it's a welcome to the program a year on. since the pandemic was called how do you assess the global response what lessons you've learned. i think the response has not been very good with just a few exceptions such as taiwan south korea singapore vietnam and i think the lesson is is that many countries undervalue public health that they don't have public health infrastructure and they get stuck in a in a situation where there's a dichotomy between locking down and letting things kind of rip and go wild and not many countries can do the testing tracing and isolating that's necessary which is the bread and butter of public health and a lot of it has to come down to you know having competent leaders who do not evade and realize what an infectious disease emergency entails doesn't really seem very

successful in the plants like taiwan but a relatively small population $23000000.00 something like that it's not transferable to big populations like the united states i do think it is but you have to be proactive so if you look at the united states we basically did nothing from january february and half of march and then when we started to do things they were flaws we had a flawed testing system flawed c.d.c. guidance and we had a lot of innovation from our from our president about what this meant we did not get our hospitals ready and so then you had governors that were left with blood tolls like lockdowns it doesn't necessarily have to be that way i think we could have been in a situation where we could have been able to minimize disruptions to people's lives and at the same time protect our vulnerable populations protect our nursing homes and make sure our hospitals are ok i think there is a way to do this that's better than than using lockdowns because those really aren't i those really are something that is a signal that the policies have failed if you're going to lock down that means that you were unable to do the things you needed to do at an earlier stage and i think

the united states is a great example of that real where we are of course and seeing more restrictions coming into place pretty much as we speak more travel restrictions do you think that's not the way to go. oh i think that what countries are in a very difficult position because they are worried about the more contagious variant they don't have any ability to stop this and stop these cases they have flawed vaccine roll out programs which are kind of stalled them and part of the developing world have not really started in earnest so they're kind of left at these types of situations and i think this is the important lesson is it didn't have to be this way and that there are ways to try and turn this around by looking at contact trace data even if you can't do all your contact tracing if you can understand how people are getting infected and then really move to what's called a harm reduction paradigm where you're trying to help people make better risk calculations trying to make businesses in places safer i think that's a much more sustainable and favorable way to do this than to basically kind of do

a non-sustainable blanket shut everything down and then have the same cycle repeat over and over again without any investment in public ownership health infrastructure in between own personal protection level much is being made now of double mall skiing wearing not one but 2 mosques where do you stand. so if you have a flimsy mask if you have a mask that is just a bandana our a scarf there really doesn't serve as a barrier that isn't multi-layered it does make sense to increase the filtration ability by adding more layers but if you've got an adequate mask one that has multiple layers to it i don't think you necessarily will get much benefit from double masking but the point is that not all masks are made equal and we desperately need standards for the general public to be able to discern which masks are appropriate and which ones are inappropriate and then we would kind of move out of this idea of needing to double mask but there are some people that are wearing masks that are not adequate and in those situations i think they will asking make sense thank you time going to emerge from pittsburgh thanks very much for the thank you. well families improve getting desperate for medical oxygen to keep loved ones

with the bars alive the 2nd wave of the pandemic in latin america has led to a rise in demand and many people are sleeping on the streets in order to get a cylinder situation so serious that some people are turning to the black market for medical supplies that's called service one of the areas where. life for. whites across latin american units from peru it was so often sold to kids in mexico city the capital of mexico where they have a grim situation there trying to find enough hospital beds we also heard plenty in recent days about the situation in mind now it's in the amazonian city in the north of brazil again severe shortages up then a shortage of beds analysis particularly in the middle of nowhere 3 hours flying time from the nearest city it's the only city with any real infrastructure in the whole of the northern region of brazil so people coming in from distant towns out

of seeking medical attention people suffering from the covered 19 virus and finding absolutely nothing ness the people that dying in the street asking for help from elsewhere in the country and there have been shut down the board has been shut down around the continent so a really severe situation everywhere the vaccine has arrived in many states in many countries but it really is going to be a long time before enough people of oxen 88 to have any real impact to try to hold the spread of infections and deaths all of the coronavirus yes the vaccines have arrived got some campaigns beginning to get going in colombia and bolivia. yes certainly the 1st person was that snake in bolivia in the eastern city of santa cruz just yesterday i know it's by the name of sun but i.d.'s she was native in the presence of president to say the 1st of. sputnik that seems to be

derived from russia. so she's the 1st as i say a few 1000000 more doses to arrive it's going to be a long process that the president of colombia. has announced a program of vaccinations there to begin in 3 weeks time he's hoping to have a 1000000 people vaccinated across colombia by the end of march we could have we had the vaccination program in place here in argentina since christmas day that is what the vaccines arrived from russia 600000 so far the best to think that in a slow process only 6 100000 of them right in the country are 4x2w4x2w who still waiting for that doctors to riot and that place uncovered the lesion the 1st is the life they found their great publicity but. she is still the. eye to cross the region for daniel thanks for the reporting thanks very much to

put in more still ahead on news our including protesting indian farmers go on hunger strike while marking the end of a 3 day leave. after. we speak to those determined to stay in hong kong despite china's growing crackdown on the territories freedoms. train ahead of the australian open as friends get the green light to tell that story of its. farmers and maybe are holding a day long hunger strike as part of their months long protests against new agricultural laws events in new delhi have so far been peaceful after a week of violence which is led to authorities blocking the internet protest comes over but many latest. we are these farmers have refused food for a day 100 strike to show people in india their protest is nonviolent

i know this of the months of protests escalated into violent scenes this past week on the outskirts of the capital new delhi. on friday there was street fights of the supporters of the governing party shouted slogans against the potus whatever you do the. police disperse the crowds using tear gas and patents. and on cheese day a pharmacist tried to rally culminated in these scenes at you tell us they misread . foamers have been counter-protests sites for 2 months to demand the government repeals 3 new agricultural laws the government has offered to put them on hold for 18 months but fall most of them dropped saying the only benefit to big businesses. although there is heavy police presence the fama say more people have been inspired to join them. i want to congratulate the farmers of punjab and the unions for

awakening the other farmers in the country who are fed up with the modi government and are sitting quietly at home these unions have mobilized them to protest on the streets and now this movement is not just confined to punjab and haryana but has spread across the country the indian government has responded to days of violence by blocking mobile internet services in 3 protest locations it's a method often deployed to prevent unrest elsewhere but an unusual move and the captain authorities of blame some of the farmers for instigating the violence but the farmers insist it's a government that's a place where they want to be a god yet 1st the government tried to remove people from the gaza pool border using force since it had few protesters but the union leaders did not allow that. they instigated the locals here to cause a riot through stone pelting and other means these protests have been one of the

biggest challenges for prime minister to read. nearly half of india's population is employed in agriculture 11 rounds of talks between the pharmacy unions and the government has failed to resolve the crisis for now the process is hearsay with time their movement is only getting stronger you're about it badly al-jazeera. at least 30 people have been injured in an explosion in yemen the blast happened at a gas station in the city of al-baida a huge plume of smoke could be seen in the sky before the explosion local sources say cars in neighboring buildings had been destroyed because it's not yet clear the taliban has claimed responsibility for a car bomb blast that killed at least 8 afghan security officers in the north eastern province of lanka a government official says a vehicle packed with explosives rampant checkpoint security forces managed to stop a 2nd attack in the same area where the attack comes 2 days after the pentagon said

that the taliban was not living up to promises made in india last year to reduce violence the rise in bloodshed has prompted a new exodus of afghans and a shattered hopes of the war could end soon conscious fury reports now from kabul. it was a morning in kabul that most afghans cannot forget in late november the capital was attacked using dozens of rockets for no we'd he's wife and 3 children it was too much. wife grabbed one child and i grabbed another i forgot my daughter on the blanket i was out in the corridor and it was very bad rockets were flying everywhere where children are traumatized and when someone closes the door hard they get scared they think that rockets are fired they run out of the room and. we're living on the top floor and god forbid if a rocket hits this place we also put plastic on our windows to keep ourselves safe there's an explosion. now we'd works in afghanistan repairing air conditioners.

that morning he decided to leave afghanistan he's taking his family across the hazardous iranian border where he says thousands more are waiting to cross illegally and to move further west with most of his relatives already out of the country he says he's forced to do the same. i prefer to die in crossing the border but not here to be killed like this he don't know if i lose a hand on me or a foot i also fear that my kids will stop after my death by leaving we know that we're at least going in a direction and we have hope as they say if there is hope there is life despite the koran a virus pandemic business is still booming for agencies assisting those who can afford to legally apply for a visa to another country an afghan passport is viewed poorly in many countries and foreign embassies have strict rules on issuing visas for afghans for many the united states visa lottery is their only chance to reach the west applications from

afghanistan for the u.s. lottery almost doubled in 2020 reaching more than 120000. if someone's family members or relatives go to another country and they see all that comfort and peace and their children in peace they call the rest of their families and encourage them to leave when they come here for the 1st 2nd and 3rd time they definitely decide to migrate. the rising insecurity has forced many to close their businesses or move them to another country poverty and crime are rising and when night falls fear reigns in the afghan capital. kabul looks like at $730.00 at night with not much in many parts with most stores closed and. other than afghan security personnel. a recent wave of targeted assassinations and threats is also forcing many of afghanistan's most

educated people to leave and peace talks between the government and the taliban in doha have stalled. after they started the negotiations the violence has increased if we have hope why should we leave our country why should we accept the risk of this journey because my children in the morning and they asked me to bring something for them after work but i tell them let's go now and buy that for you now because i don't know if i will be coming back. and so no weed and his family are joining the thousands to cross those mountains and to look for peace in what they hope will be their final destination europe contra fori al-jazeera kabul. military says it will abide by the nation's constitution amid concerns the armed forces might attempt to keep the army previously said it could take action if it's allegations of fraud in november's election were not addressed the governing and l.d. party called on the military to accept the will of the people more than

a dozen countries including the u.s. and the u.k. to adhere to democratic norms. well a to see a van then asked him is a diplomatic expert who served on a commission charged with protecting minorities men mark and she says the army statement came not just after pressure from the international community or from the people of myanmar themselves. it's quite a bit like lying down for a for the military. and it in a sense it nets it statements may have given people the impression that it was compared to go towards a cool but you know the people of myanmar deserve better than this kind of bullying and this kind of heavy handed approach the military has no role to play in the electoral force process what it did is went beyond it actually already went beyond the constitution but it's stronger checks tactics that favor its proxy civilian parties of militant in process. but what's behind all of this is that the military

appears to be concerned that its role will diminish under the next parliament and the next government and parliament is out of me sworn it next week the process of making of making in the us government is already underway and. more specifically you know the commander in chief of the armed forces is due to retire it is here he's already way beyond retirement age and it's not a likely that is see that he's seeking to make it relevant in myanmar politics and wants to secure continued interest for himself and for some of his colleagues who are also retired. bangladesh is sending more ranger refugees to a remote island despite calls from human rights groups to stop the process rights groups say some of the refugees have been forced to go to the island of bass and china and they warn that the low lying island is at risk of storms and floods wants to relocate tens of the $1000000.00 refugees living in camps he took refuge there

after fleeing violence in neighboring me in ma. prime minister shaken has seen a build housing for us we were asked to come and we came here at our own will my people and relatives came here earlier they said it's better here so we came. this being the 3rd night of protest in poland sparked by a court ruling that makes abortion illegal in almost all cases thousands defied coronavirus restrictions to attend rallies in several cities bryant has this. these protesters say they're marching for freedom and equality they want women to have the right to choose what's best for their bodies and their babies and that. the court ruling means i don't want to have any more children for the moment in poland because i want to have the choice i do not want to run the risk of having to watch my baby die in excruciating pain or have a stillborn. pollens constitutional court ruled in october to ban abortions in

cases of facial disorders even those that are severe facial a ruling which came into force on wednesday it's one of the most restrictive laws in europe only allowing the procedure in cases of rape and incest or if the mother's life is at risk doctors performing illegal abortions will face a prison sentence and that's what women should have the right to decide their own bodies not the government and certainly not the church. activists accuse the governing conservative law and justice party of putting pressure on the court which it denies but that hasn't stopped anger over the ruling escalating into the largest protest movement in decades. after getting in the capital warsaw they were scuffles with police who fired tear gas at the crowds some say the security forces are trying to intimidate them into keeping quiet doesn't just let us know it's a tragedy for our country that 30 years after the fall of communism or have to

fight for freedom again the protests are being watched closely hof a world away the largest south american country to do so activists say they're sharing strategies online. the fact that we are reference in terms of empowerment and the building of strength is very exciting i think that if we could we could get on a plane and we would be on the front line with them supporting that. the green scarves that became the symbol of argentina as abortion rights movement being handed out in poland. as a source of inspiration a reminder not to give up. on al jazeera still ahead here on al-jazeera. versus. chile the world's biggest producer of the matter plans to use it as a shield against the bars. flames of opportunity nigeria looks to make the most from its wasted not forgotten. i want to report from brazil which is getting ready

to host the biggest game in south american club football will be placed on. time for a bit more stormy weather in the luvin here it is coming in on sunday it won't last for long runs through runs through fairly quickly actually and the bottom measure doesn't seem to do much i mean even in the north of iraq in there bill we get one day of rain probably in the afternoon then we're back to fire weather in 15 degrees cold nights obviously but that's normal this time the that once it has gone east and the skies clear up again 20 we've. seen to strengthen a little bit during the you notice. the rainy season somehow i should say in southern africa is fairly obvious we've got a good line that goes from the maybe down towards the eastern side of south africa

but i think the more of a concentration the next day or so in parts of tanzania maybe mozambique as well and further inland towards zambia however you'd expect it to be summer thunderstorms in south africa and johannesburg does not disappoint for sunday monday and chooses are the showers thunderstorms all straightforward right with the temperature regime pretty steady 23 by a day that about 15 or 16 by night what fun. can be a challenge on its own. but for some peruvian villages traversing one of the world's most dangerous roads is a risk that comes with it. we follow the journey of the people as they get to survive.

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but again you're watching out through mind of our top stories this hour and world leaders are imposing travel restrictions to curb the spread of covert $1000.00 variants france has banned people from traveling from known each country's south africa joins you growing list of countries being put on the u.s. travel. farmers in india holding a day long hunger strikers part of their months long protest against a new act of cultural events new delhi had so far been peaceful after we could violence between protesters and police. military says it will abide by the country's constitution amid concerns the armed forces might attempt a coup the governing m.l.d. party has called on the military to accept the results of november's election. algeria has begun its vaccination drive using doses of russian sputnik vaccine the initial jabs were issued in the town of brega where algeria is 1st cases were detected in march of 2 is trying to get the deliveries of the astra zeneca vaccine and the 4 other african nations have begun their campaign. well 6 of the 10

countries in the world with the fastest rise in infections are in africa malawi is 2nd on that list cases that doubled in just 2 weeks from almost 10000 on january the 14th to more than $22000.00 africans cave in $1000.00 mortality rate is now higher than the rest of the world at 2.5 percent the global average is 2.2 percent there is some good news however the african union has secured a deal for another $400000000.00 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine but it could take up to 3 years to vaccinate 60 percent of the continent's $1300000000.00 strong population which is the threshold needed for vaccines to work world health organization is urged countries competing for vaccine supplies to think about the situation in less developed nations it follows the e.u.'s move to impose export controls of covert 19 vaccines after a dispute with astra zeneca about supplies to margaret harris is a spokesperson for the world health organization and says that the vaccine nationalism does not work in anybody's favor. my big politically attractive leaders

obviously want to be looking after their people but it's very very shortsighted because we need to be vaccinating around the world and we need to vaccinate the people who are most exposed to this fire sets the health and frontline workers who are fighting battling this virus for us every day and those who are most likely to be sick the ones that the health care workers are battling to save and that's the older people and people with co-morbidities but that has to happen in every country around the world it's no good just protecting one country because of the pandemic will continue to burn on and we it will take longer to end and also the economic fallout will continue we've seen a lot of studies that has demonstrated this is a good example there are countries that are being good neighbors who are saying we were vaccinators top groups and we will provide those doses for others the other

way is through the codex facility that was set up by very much the european union was one of the main groups involved britain was is very involved many countries are very involved and that provides access to the vaccines for other countries in the code accessibility so it doesn't matter whether you're rich or poor the idea is equality of access and access according to need. is useless is top industry in the fight against current versus world struggles to deal with a new wave of infections the country's a large number of products on the market made of copper which some say can provide protection for those questions as to how effective the mineral is this in human reports know something. they say necessity is the mother of invention. and nowadays nothing seems more necessary than finding novel ways to combat covert 91 option being applauded by judy's government is

a formula that uses copper to destroy the virus really see that only good big congratulate you for senator izing your 331 stores with nano copper particles this is a major step in protecting stuff from customers the strong n.t. microbial properties of copper which can destroy viruses bacteria and fungus are well known especially here in chile the world's number one copper producer. a firm called copper company has been developing copper impregnated textiles for the last 7 years. in some terrible factory copper i own threads a woven into the fabric but how effective is called birth specifically against coping 19 in that you see it only gives you a good analysis conducted by the immunology lubber tree of the university of burning switzerland demonstrates that 5 minutes after coming in contact with the fabric 84.8 percent of the virus is eliminated and after 2 hours 95 percent.

according to the study commissioned by the company copper ions destroy the membrane of the virus thereby neutralizing it. gets their mind they could add. another go at it the cop was integrated into a different products we've developed a line that includes face small 6 sheets for hospital bed scraps for medical staff troubled kids as well as south covers for taxi seats to prevent infections. but there are still some questions about the overall efficacy of copper infused products such as this face mask some scientists argue that while not retreat findings are very promising it may be less so out here on the street or in hospital . we need more information to see how it works in real life before we can recommend it broadly but it's a very interesting and really edits root very simple idea.

that almost everything related to the novel virus nothing is yet certain yet the bet is that these golden threads of copper could provide a welcome additional layer of protection. you see in human al-jazeera. on hundreds of patients in chile as capital had to evacuate a hospital after a fire broke out dozens of foreign gents were deployed to the hospital in santiago the blaze began in the boiler room on saturday morning no deaths or injuries have been reported so far the european union is not fit for purpose when it comes to fighting poverty that's the assessment of the u.n. special envoy in libya the shooter who's coolio e.u. countries to focus more on eradicating poverty his report focuses on his report accuses the e.u. of failing to reach its own target of lifting 20000000 people out of poverty by last year's deadline the shooter wants the boat to boldly rethink its entire socio

economic approach one in 5 people in the e.u. were already living in poverty in 2019 that's more than 92000000 people and the pandemic has affected millions more who had never experienced poverty before u.n. report also found at least 23 percent of european children live in poverty and women are disproportionately affected. well if you had to shoot a told on this thread that the blocks economic policies make it difficult for member states to adequately tackle the problem with the e.u. has a number of constraints that. it has imposed on itself that makes it very difficult for member states to effectively tackle poverty 1st because fiscal competition between countries is institutionalized and as a result it's very difficult for these countries to adopt progressive taxation schemes secondly because they compete on wages and on social contributions paid by employers so it's very difficult to increase wages in line with put it to to gains

and thirdly because these countries imposed a macro economy straight jacket as a result of joining the euro the single currency you have to maintain a fiscal discipline making it very difficult for them to invest in social protection and as a result it is extremely difficult for european countries to do more to combat poverty and reduce inequality as these measures that are dictated by the emergency by the sanitary crisis may be a blueprint for the future. for the future of the e.u. and it must learn from this crisis that it should build social resilience not put all its hopes in growth and efficiency gains but also build resilience which means investing much more in social protection and protecting people from economy shocks and i think we now are witnessing the e.u. a significant revision of the dogmas that have been essentially guiding the use

past responses to crisis over the past 20 years. first it was scotland's fishing industry now it's the ukase animal farm is a meat processors complaining about the impact bricks it is having on their livelihoods whole containers of fresh meat to be left to rot in ports as exporters struggle with a new board of bureaucracy or a challenge reports from yorkshire. on. richard lister owns 50000 pigs and he's struggling to sell them his customers the u.k.'s may meet process is a mired in delays with new customs checks for getting produce to europe it's a threat to the whole industry you know if we count to function profitably then you know we don't have a business you know what we understand it. for periods of time that you know things are profitable but we really need to you know address barriers to news from here bricks it doesn't yet look like what boris johnson promised when the u.k. e.u.

free trade deal was agreed at the end of december the deal which will if anything allow our companies and our exporters to do even more business with our european friends since early january containers of produce from the u.k. have ended up to dover or rotting in rotterdam other trucks are making the journey empty the existing paper based customs clearance system of export declarations and certificates isn't working for food it has to reach its destination fast and fresh so i'm trying to unpick the pain that breaks it is currently causing it is important to make some distinctions a few of the issues are just to do with implementation that the streamlined board of bureaucracy just hasn't been put in place yet and presumably these issues will dissipate over time but others are hard bakes into the policy changes of brecht's it in self and no amounts of tech wizardry can make those disappear at the moment is difficult on pick which is which or whether it's

a combination of both and what it struggles to figure this out of the industry worries about whether it can stay can. pettit it we're getting some feedback that yes it's a statement to many problems that they'll source it from somewhere else you know sale is customers and they this is trade that you know our business is a build up over the last 40 years supplying some of the continental retailers the government says we've always been clear that there would be new processes for traders and we continue to support them in their transition to these new arrangements we are working closely with british meat processes to ensure they can take advantage of the opportunities and changes being outside the single market and customs union will bring and overall businesses are adjusting well to the new rules and continue to try to fact to flee i asked farmer richard lister if he agreed with this i think when you're the head then about supply chain it's quite different you know we are at the bottom of the supply chain and everything gets pushed back on to

wells so this pick produces you know i would agree with that from the government you know more must be done and it's going to be done soon and the industry says it digitized custom system is an essential place to start very chalons al-jazeera yorkshire hundreds of people have taken to the streets of paris against the bill they say will undermine freedom to document police brutality french police of use water cannon to disperse the crowds demonstrators are angry that the draft security law would make it criminal to publish footage of on duty police officers video of white policeman beating up a black music producer in november intensified anger leading to nationwide we can protest the un has called on france to revise the bill. hong kong residents can apply for a new visa offering a path to residency and citizenship in the u.k. starting on sunday on kong's government those says it will no longer recognize the british national overseas or be a no passport as often china made the same announcement it is

a dream brown reports many are determined to stay even as china moves to rapidly cattail the city's freedoms. a music video promoting a message of harmony in a community where politics have been badly out of choose. let's move forward no matter what go the lyrics let's share the new economy. the songs called endless possibilities and was written by leonard chan he's a technology entrepreneur and doesn't intend on joining a growing exodus to the u.k. we can see he is already more calm more peaceful when people become friendly to each other again despite their political beliefs and couple of the fighting of the cold we have a common target to what together chan is also a government advisor and supports china's recent imposition of a new national security law which he maintains has restored order like many other businessmen here then

a challenge believes that hong kong's future is dependent on closer economic integration with the mainland pointing to the chinese government's bold plan to link this city with 10 others in southern china creating a vast innovation cluster that some say could one day rival silicon valley. that's not why and has decided to stay the academic says her reasons are rooted in culture and identity. it's not easy if you have to give up your identity and adapt to a new one it's very different if one is relocating for work but if you are moving to another country thinking of becoming a citizen or national of a different nation there is a lot to put down. like her parents who was born here part of a south asian community numbering more than 80000 she's brand manager for a hotel chain owned by have family avni has the security of

a british passport but as yet has no plans to go i thought i would have to be driven out of hong. kong and. given everything that's happening it's still the best option in my opinion but like many other remain as she also feels uneasy about hong kong's future hong kong today is a different place i wouldn't say it's for the worse it's just different because any major global city changes that's what makes it a city but there is fear the unknown and i believe that's what is causing people to look at other option options is the fear of the unknown. it's a fear others who remain would also need to overcome adrian brown al jazeera hong kong for more than half a century the prices of gas flaring that's the burning of gas produced as a byproduct of oil extraction has affected the lives of thousands of people in

nigeria now the government wants to pass a bill to tackle the issue and raise new revenue from the wasted natural gas now deserves our were due to a census report now from the niger delta. they do oppose the community has been living in the shadows of 3 gas flare point 6970. people here say the players damage their lives and livelihoods. everywhere. our roofs don't last. crops. probably. no good water. life has moved because of that but. for us to get fish now would have to. kill less. he says compensation paid to some has done little to ease their pain. and there aren't a lot of fires like these birds throughout nigeria's oil rich delta. oil companies

still find it more convenient to burn away the gas even though it could be used to generate electricity an estimated printer 3000000 cubic meters of gas is being flared every day for 174 points like this costing nigeria about a $1000000000.00 annually the government says it's a waste and if stopped could add $3000.00 megawatts of electricity in a country that to struggling to generate $4000.00 megawatts. because of the difficulty in enforcing a total ban in $29.00 t. nigeria launched an ambitious project to increase domestic use of gas and export this it hopes will cut the waste and save lives and the environment the fact that it's embedded mentally friendly it is cheap it also never was quick industrialization and growth and we didn't do dis about lafayette out of time he said it's an issue where we can continue to lead men and that's why this project will do 2 things one is to deliver on previous at attempts to have

a trust african got 5 plan which will deliver gas through military into europe and also to deepen the gas consumption country in. domestic consumption government is also promoting the use of compressed natural gas in vehicles but the most effort is to see a drastic reduction in gas flaring we are actually giving out those flares to people to manage and we believe that. will be able to take care of all the gas flares within the next few years you identified it got you interested in the bid for it and if you win we give it to you so you can now. make your vessel and commercialize the guys that gas that was. being fled and then of course to bring some value to the economy. the government is hoping that the petroleum industry bill in parliament for 20 years will soon pass and attract more investments in oil and gas

. boost gas utilization and help me my slatting i'm told in communities like. me have to live with the damage caused by the gas flares blazing at their doorsteps. and it will force a cool nigeria. has to lead her announced action from the america's cup challenges there is a new zealand coming up with them. ok calm and make sure you're not hyping the situation be part of the debate my main characters are women when no topic is off the table the law is in the last allow child marriage to happen legally these are basically archaic walls to dads off in the jet mines and legal one is pedophile. online jumping to the quick section and

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going to get on to this board has drama. thank you nick primate a great as manchester city have gone 4 points clear that softer a 10 and i have a bottom side sheffield united cabrio daisy's scored the only goal of the game off to 9 minutes to make it 12 wins in a row society in all competitions which is a club record have got here this side and now unbeaten in 19 matches as well. i woke up when out of my my building in a sort of windy today the freezing and i said today we said we spoke to they would be the toughest games we're going to play the season. when you see sheffield united today decide and he's in right now in the bottom of the leak so your realize how is the premier league the toughest league in the world. manchester united looking to cut the gap to city back to a point with the winner arsenal but right now it is goalless in the 2nd half there

newcastle beat everton to no for their 1st league win in 10 games callum wilson getting both of their goals crystal palace also secured a win or relegation threatened for them and west brom drew 2 all in italy ac milan extended their lead at the top of syria it's been a difficult week for milan they were knocked out of the carpets hellyeah by local rivals into they were given 2 penalties in saturday's match against the long near flattened the rim of it is spock it was saved and tehran which put in the rebound before from the 2nd half penalty made it 21. drop points in the race for the top spot in spain in the night a bit of the game against the van say they went down to 10 men that was one at a minute's how was sent off for a challenge at the edge of the box marco asensio ran in front but an take came back to win it $21.00 that leads around the trading leaders after less committed by 7 points and they've played 2 games more anger boiled over in france as must say fans

continued their protests over the club's recent drop in form supporters holding flares set fire to a building at the club's training ground just hours before the team was supposed to host ren in saturday's game which was them perspire and by the league it comes just over a week after fans turned on the players before a game in which must say slumped to their 4th straight defeats the biggest game in south american football is being played of brazil's iconic american our stadium but because of the pandemic it will take place behind closed doors monica iraqi have reports from rio de janeiro. this is football is it usually used in brazil. bidding farewell to players before you store game between mirrors. in the final of the. audience to top brazil teens. happening for the biggest prize in south american club football the american man stadium in rio de janeiro you would expect to be greeted by big crowds

of supporters but no with today's covert 19 restrictions there's just a handful already it is match up with the 3 it's very said that no fans of prison in the game as big as this one both teams have a huge amount of fans in normal times the american would be packed. one of the world's greatest ever players bedad began his career as a 15 year old with some toes he's having to cheer his former team on line you know get is the love they have with them is that i wanted to be inside the stadium helping santos but time's a different the american man can hold 80000 fans but only 5000 are allowed inside that includes stadium workers journalist teams in their selected guess everyone had to test negative for covert 19 to get access to the magic and i was and still is a monument to possess passion for football but in 2020 it was used as

a field hospital and became a symbol of the government's failed attempts to control the pandemic which has claimed more than 200000 lives. the pandemic also loomed over the pre-match news conferences when teams usually talk about sports strategies in their hopes of winning the game not this time s. like ever that a person wants tons of a lot of it even more the real pressure is when we talk about life and death here it's a game and no matter what happens we'll go forward now people on the front lines like nurses and doctors that are fighting to beat this pandemic they're the real heroes they're the ones who deserve the highlights. back to football the teams are not just battling to become champions in south america the winner will also pole the fight to play in the club world cup which begins in doha next week meineke an i.q. of al-jazeera rio de janeiro. well some of the other consent or champions are

already arriving in casts off for the club world cup the latest side's touchdown in doha mexico to aggress who are the champions of the north central america and caribbean region their 1st match will be against asian champions also from south korea the tournament is being played in 2 of the 2022 world cup stadiums with a limited number of fans and loud in to watch up to $30000.00 spectators a day will also be allowed in to watch the australian open tennis that's around 50 percent of the usual attendance for the grand slam which starts on february 8th in melbourne the limit to end up to 25000 for the last 6 days of the tournament because there are a few matches serena williams and novak djokovic sure among those training in melbourne earlier that race fresh from playing at an exhibition event in adelaide where fans are allowed into the stands for the 1st time in months as a tennis tournament something officials hope to continue doing safely. over the following dies will have up to 390000 people here at melbourne park and that's

about 50 percent of the average over the last 3 years you know it will not burn the saw him as the last few years but it will be the most significant international we've crowds that the world has seen for many many months english go for poor casey would take a one shot lead into the final round of the dubai desert classic casey chipped in for a birdie on the 17th and then he followed that up with an eagle on the final hole of his that round that took him to 15 on the part that's one play of scotland's robert mcintosh and if casey wins on sunday or clinch a 15th european thought i still. the sailings americas cup and the italian team leader russia have stormed into the final of the challenger series they completed a 4 no sweep of american magic in the best of 7 semifinal on saturday in oakland it means that that will now take on a setback the ainslie's british in the oss team next month in the final and that will determine which team will progress to the main america's cup in march to face

defending champions to new zealand and finally as swiss skier laura brahmi has wrapped up her. victory in iraq the latest one came in in germany and it increases her lead in the seat that she standings she's now a $140.00 points ahead of her neighbors challenger and it'll save me for up to 2nd place in the overall world cup standings that is illegal sport for now i'll be back with more a little bit later. german accent for you very much indeed before we go from this design on the beaches not to the direction of our web site al jazeera dot com if you dress all the news we're covering right the let me torment this is to that is it for this new. my colleague barbara starr with me with another home of our views from london a couple minutes. when

all that seems to matter is the headline there's always 2 sides to a story when narratives and counter narratives obscure reality the leader on the one hand the enemy is over neither on the other hand the listening post strips away the spin what kind of reporting if you can see it on the ground misinformation is right lays bare the bias a lot of people believe things because they want to believe covers the uncomfortable truths if you think they did enough to scrutinize the case for the listening post. at 16 cush who is living her dream of being a journalist but her father has his own dream for her to follow tradition and be merrett as her investigations bring her face to face with the ill fate of some of

india's young women the father search for suitable husband continues can both their dreams come true must one overcome the other. part of the viewfinder asia serious on al-jazeera. decades ago manila was called the pearl of the orient the manila metropolitan theater was once a testament to the city's grandeur but decades later the theater has become a symbol of moneyless dickie now the philippine government is changing their government buildings the universities and monasteries were just some of the many structures that were destroyed in manila during world war 2. but rebuilding a life and a city from scratch has proven difficult and some experts say manila has never truly recover it. the.

the geopolitics of immunization some countries have more vaccine than they need are there is none at all the w.h.o. says richer countries must act globally. hello i'm barbara sarah this is al jazeera live from london also coming up as u.s. covert cases in near 26000000 facemasks will soon become compulsory on all public transport.