the bangladesh government. i'll just be right investigation point ministers. defying police warnings protests began across russia calling for the release of jailed opposition leader alexina vani. hello there moura kajal this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up brazil's neighbors restrict travel to the country over concerns about the spread of a new coronavirus variant. about items you don't mistake and international numbers

are down significantly the local economies that get a beating as a result of the state blocked out measures economists say there's no quick fix. and the donald trump has reportedly parted ways with his key defense lawyers 8 days before his impeachment trial begins. protesters in russia are defying police orders to stay home rallying for a 2nd week to demand the release of jailed opposition politician alexina volley heavily armed police are out and force arresting demonstrators and shutting down streets and metro stations just a short while ago police could be seen mazing arrests in the city of lot of all stock. warnings from the interior ministry that he says the demonstrations are illegal of ali was arrested on arrival from germany where he'd been recovering from

a poisoning he blames the kremlin for the attack which it denies. he has more. riot police out in force in central some petersburg ahead of nationwide rallies on sunday to the supporters of opposition leader alexina valmy there was this warning from the russian government but it is doing you mean it's just a look at the russian interior ministry units and other law enforcement will use all necessary measures to ensure public order at sites of mass events moreover we want that any violent actions against offices or refusal to obey their lawful orders will be prevented individuals who commit such eat legal actions will be detained and held accountable according to the law. the government wants to stop a repeat of last week's anti-government protests which took place across at least $100.00 towns and cities but many of nivelle new supporters are angry after a court this week that he should be kept in jail until his next hearing he's

accused of violating the terms of a previous sentence by traveling to germany that's where he was treated for poisoning an attack he blames on the russian government novelli is becoming an increasing problem for president vladimir putin he recently released a video of a seaside mansion which he says belongs to the russian leader and was built using illicit funds that's been denied by a russian billionaire who's to say putin's former judy a partner who says he bought the property 2 years ago for almost 1000000000 dollars by the way the video has been viewed more than 100000000 times the one hand they've tried to poison and they failed so now if they point if they try to poison him again at this stage it's going to produce even more backlash but if they don't silence him he's also going to be coming out with more criticism so they're sort of stuck between a rock and hard place this week the government crackdown widened several friends

and allies of novell me including his brother were arrested. and the kremlin sentiment. israeli being this public during putin's time in power and it's likely the rallies on sunday will be met with even tougher resistance victoria gates and be al jazeera. members of a world health organization team have visited the markets in the chinese city of war as they investigate the origins of the pandemic a live animal market distributed food to the entire city and its thoughts me where the virus was 1st detected the team has visited 2 hospitals that were at the center of the early outbreak and also visit a covert 19 museum dedicated to the early history of the pandemic before drafting that report. and brazil's neighbors are imposing new restrictions on travel to and from latin america's largest country as concern about a new coronavirus variance spread across the region vaccine rollouts provides some

hope but officials warn last a long way to go before the end of the pandemic there are reports. thank you rare piece of good news amongst the coronavirus misery bolivia's 1st vaccination a nurse in the country's hearted eastern city of santa cruz messy end of the message. i feel good very excited and also a bit nervous a positive she's in the front line doctors want to medic is dying every day the virus has killed 10000 bolivians the government has ordered 15000000 more doses of the russian sputnik and the ox that astra zeneca vaccines. but we have a plan to combat the corona virus in the 2nd wave a plan to have stages such as tests tests and more tests a plan that has a 2nd element to provision of vaccines that today are becoming a reality for our health workers there's

a similar story in colombia where the president announced the national vaccination program is to begin in 3 weeks only for my law school and be honest i would like to inform colombians that at this moment acquisitions are completely closed in order to guarantee the vaccination for the target population that we set out in the national vaccination plan a new lockdown has been imposed in the capital or borders remain closed trapping these migrants mostly from haiti but also cuba and africa their ultimate destination is united states lab and this year on the request they have made is to be allowed entry into panama that is not possible because there is a presidential order to close the borders as a precautionary measure but in addition panama has all of its borders closed. ghana has closed its long border with brazil barbados has announced a lockdown while canada has closed air traffic from the caribbean and mexico until april in mexico the president went before the cameras to say he's recovering from

the virus and to announce the purchase of vaccines. i still have covert but the doctor stone me to tie have passed a critical phase i'm not presenting myself to you so that there are no rumors or misunderstandings i am well although i still have to rest he was speaking of mexico became a country in the world with the 3rd highest number of coronavirus deaths more than 155000 behind a need the us to brazil a situation made worse by oxygen shortages in the capital despite that foreign tourists taking advantage of mexico's more relaxed travel restrictions continue to flock to the beaches the coronavirus. some of us are family ready had it. it's not that big a deal and the governments are making it worse than it actually is however for many elsewhere in latin america it can get much worse the vaccination programs provide hope but on the horizon it's still

a long way off when the rajah 01 osiris peru is beginning a straight lockdown for the 2nd time in 10 months to ease pressure on its overwhelmed hospitals a shortage of oxygen is forcing hundreds of people to look for it on the black market they've been queuing up for days and sleeping in tents to secure supplies the lockdown will last until mid february. portugal says it's running out of intensive care unit beds as it struggles with the world's highest coronavirus death toll per capita health ministry data shows there are only 7 intensive care unit beds left on the mainland out of 850 some critically ill patients are being sent to portuguese islands including madera portugal has also recorded the highest number of new cases per capita in the past week hundreds of protesters and romania have called for the president to resign a day after a fire at one of its main hospitals for kovan 1000 patients at least 5 people died

in the blaze and go to reports. these charred window frames some of what's left of hospital after a fire swept through it fire crews worked through the night to put out the flames remove them from the basket. first of all i'd like to express my condolences to the families of the patients that died it's 4 people 3 of which were found carbonized and the 4th one they try to resuscitate but to no avail. it's not clear what caused it but there's anger over the 3rd hospital fire and as many months protest as suspect there's corruption behind the lack of investment and aging buildings they want the president and the ministers in charge to resign. a few more there but it's back after 31 years in which we paid taxes and got nothing in return not a single new hospital was built in romania in 31 years we paid the money was stolen

from the romanian medical system we want the resignation of those responsible if things don't change radically. remain as president to promise to get justice for the victims see thoughts sir. the situation is somewhat repeating itself we had a tragedy not long ago there were smaller fires that other hospitals and certainly the reasons at the us they are under investigation the investigations will bring to light what happened who is guilty and the guilty will be sanctioned but these promises may not be enough to quell growing anger maté bar hospital was built in the 1950 s. and had been recently renovated even before the cave a pandemic remains health system have been criticized over inefficiency and politicized management this latest fire is certain to put the government under more pressure to reform it barbara and al-jazeera. south africa's tourism

sector has been hit hard by a restrictive lockdown it's a vital industry for the economy particularly in cape town businesses across the city are struggling to stay open robin adams some of these business owners. turn has always been a dream destination for travelers around the world the list of must see interactions is endless. december and january a peak periods for tourism in the cape but visitor numbers are down by as much as 90 percent strict lock down legalization to include night time curfews and a ban on alcohol also beaches are off limits to snaps posted to social media nowadays include some interesting visit to the police law enforcement and the national army who put all the shoreline we have gone down prices have gone up and people are suffering at the moment they are having difficulty surviving lots of

businesses are adding close down if they're not already closed down the damiano family originally from bulgaria has been struggling to make ends meet i mean. lock down despite the reduced client numbers has been to a company which he started in 2007 as not it's always very hard i used to hear from 19 of these vehicles now i have only one i don't have income from march of last year. just before down in long street the heartbeat of guy turns into payments seem they are for sale and too late signs even a way to get out the street no one can not can't find a job that ever was. going to get maybe one maybe 100 on an ordinary day it would be difficult to find a parking spot here a chemist by beachfront but then i had one of those an ordinary day in the alley a year business is on the phone so. putting it on that side of the main it would be

lined with informal traders selling their way is mainly african but only a handful of them remain notorious even the base they're close they've been. just maybe you can get different just for survival it's very difficult because of lockdown so what's the way forward how will we cover these are questions we put to the local government who look at the industry is all it's really an important sector for cape town but contributes around about one comma $2000000000.00 us dollars to the city's economy and it creates around about $300000.00 direct and indirect jobs so far so priority is to make sure that we stabilize the tourism landscape by making as much relief available to our tourism and hospitality industry and that could be for example the reclassification of your property if you've got a tourism business property to a presidential category and that could really reduce right spalls we've also

implemented these other missions for people trying to land or building from going to support it so that we can just you know give people the financial relief at this point in time while many of cut their losses and closed up shop people like daniel . jack and the estimated 75000 of his was jobs risk in the midst of no choice but to live out the storm from an item's al-jazeera . so has hair on al-jazeera processing in on hunger strike calls marking the death anniversary of mahatma gandhi. and the going sign of the swedish film festival offering one lucky maybe a chance to watch films on an island alone for a week. once

again the influence of the atlantic whether the stormy weather is going to be the overall change i think for western europe going from cold and snowy to rather mild and wet now it's already happened through spain where the very moderate record warmth is now a country up to about 30 degrees that's cause been swept these woods and moderated and sunday's going to see that show itself as rain from the west coast of greece up through the animation coast was snow up in the balkans the changes taking place in london passes with us northern edge cold so part agrees represents that rainy area which is slow to move to be our temperatures don't change is montenegro the coast of the adriatic now in london that northern edge eventually antigay gets through office couple of roll days 10 degrees on tuesday but in the rain so that's the slow

progress that means a lot of wet snow fall in the alps and proper dry snow falls in for example kiev minus 3 degrees or least likely will move not if you can call it warm in berlin there be some snow the north in germany but a rain will still affect jury of the on shore breeze but it's pretty hot for the south particularly in nigeria. frank assessments you've got colleagues on the ground in the canaries what is the situation there's only one doctor and one nurse or $2200.00 people informed opinions how big does foreign policy figure in the early stages of a bomb in this rush he comes into office with a huge amount of foreign policy experience in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines how will a place like it live get the back seat when there's no money at all the rest of rich countries are fighting for an inside story on al-jazeera.

again you're watching al-jazeera has a reminder of our top stories this hour russian protesters are defying police orders rallying for a 2nd week demanding the release of jailed opposition politician alexina valmy as is the scene right now in the siberian city of. heavily armed police are out in force in across russia arresting protesters and shutting down streets a metro stations. experts a visit to the markets in the chinese city of war as they continue their investigation into the origins of the pandemic live animal markets is thought to be

when the virus was 1st detected. grew is beginning a strict lockdown for the 2nd time in 10 months the government is aiming to reduce the burden on overwhelmed hospitals families are buying medical oxygen on the black market because of shortages. former u.s. president donald trump has parted ways with his lead impeachment lawyer as of a more than a week before his trial that's according to u.s. media trump is accused of inciting the siege at the capitol building earlier this month as a say they plan to argue the trial is unconstitutional because he's no longer in office early indication is so limited republican support for a conviction and speaking out a cloud will cause he's professor of government at georgetown university here in caspar and joins us via skype from doha good to have you with us what happens what do we know about why these lawyers resigned. well what i'm hearing is that trump wants to make the case at the beach new trial that the election was stolen and his

2 problems with that 1st of all it clearly was not stolen that's minaj akkad it dozens of times and there was never any evidence for it but secondly the argument is problematic because it seems to imply well what i did was justified because of the stolen election and that's simply not there were kind of the sense that a car like this what sort of upset this is going to cause and it's any a week until he's choosing on trial in the senate and jurors avoiding being decides if he's got no means team how strong this case going to be. not very strong i mean he's obviously done this but he doesn't need a very strong case because it takes 2 thirds of the sudden to convict 2 thirds of the senate who are present. as long as he doesn't really screw it up he's going to be acquitted his best defense is the argument he's been making the last week that

he might go start a patriot that threat is enough to keep many of the republican senators in line however he's also threatening to show up himself that you defend himself that would be quite a circus but i think it would also be it's best if any point to going through with this trial if as you say the senate doesn't offer the support for a conviction we know that ahead of time is there any point to carrying through the whole process. well it's a debatable case i mean what what happened here was really really bad and so if you don't hold a trial it sort of implies that it wasn't serious enough to actually go forward with the trial on the other hand if he's acquitted a 2nd time then that doesn't really help either but the vote that they took last week isn't necessarily indicative of how people would vote if they were forced to write in other words they voted that they don't want to have a trial when republicans don't want to go on record with

a vote on this but some of them who said let's not have a trial might when faced with the actual evidence with the video of the invasion actually vote to convict there's another option here and that is that some of the republicans might choose to boycott the final vote based on the argument that the trial is unconstitutional and it only requires 2 thirds of those present to convict is not 2 thirds of the funds that is there a strong case for the trial being unconstitutional. no it's it's it's a somewhat debatable case but i don't think the supreme court is going to step in and rule that way we have had one impeachment trial not through the president but after someone has left office so i don't and he was impeached before he left office so no but that's probably the strongest argument that the republicans at this point have sent in a minister want to walks act live many thanks for joining us there from doha.

now farmers and india have held a hunger strike has positive month long protest against new agricultural laws that has been blocked at protests comes after a week of violence. reports. we are these farmers have refused food for a day 100 strike to show people in india their protest is nonviolent. 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 goddess. police disperse the crowds using tear gas and patents. and cheese day a pharmacist tried to rally culminated in these scenes at u. county status right. moments of encounter protest 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 the farmers with 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 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 to early order 1st the government tried to remove people from the gaza call 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 and red. lelie heart 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 now the process is hearsay with time the movement is only getting stronger you're about it badly al-jazeera. more than 70 percent of hong kong 7 and a half 1000000 people can now apply for a special visa that could lead to british citizenship the u.k. government introduced the scheme for holders of the british national overseas or

bear no passport after china imposed a sweeping national security law in hong kong china says it will no longer recognize the bear no as a valid travel document. now 1st it was scotland's fishing industry and now it's the u.k.'s animal farmers and meat processors complaining about the impact breck's it is having on their livelihoods whole containers of fresh meat have been left to rot in ports as exporters struggle with new border bureaucracy or a challenge reports. richard lister owns 50000 pigs and he's struggling to sell them his customers the u.k.'s may meet process is 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 really need to you know address various issues from here brecht's 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 decaying near dover or rotting in rotterdam other trucks and 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 baked into the policy changes of brecht's

it in self and no amount 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 is the industry worries about whether it can stay competitive it we're getting some feedback that yes it's a statement to many problems that they'll they'll source it from somewhere else you know so you lose 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 processors 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 trade affectively i asked farmer richard lister if he agreed with

this i think when you're the head then of that supply chain it's quite different you know we are at the bottom of the supply chain and everything gets pushed back on to the rules 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 chalons al-jazeera yorkshire. well the pandemic has forced the postponement or cause lation of many film festivals around the world but some have taken creative steps the gothenburg film festival in sweden has held a contest giving one person the chance to see all 60 films on the program from a remote location reports from the island where the winner is about to embark on a movie marathon. the show is struggling on at film festivals around the world still with plenty of films it's the festival part that's somewhat lacking. here at the gotham but film festival they've managed to avoid going totally online while

giving the pandemic itself a starring role. the festival has chosen one person out of 12000 applicants to spend a week on the island of how the where alone and the cut to get straight between the north sea and the baltic with nothing but films to keep them company it's a different experience to watch the films under those circumstances when you're all by yourself in your home feels different to what the scene where for example there is a big party going on or where people are very touchy with charter and we want to take it further and take it to extreme the winning applicants is emergency nurse lisa and her author who's been on the front lines of sweden's battle with covert 19 i'm looking forward just to be able to reflect a bit about what happened this year and not be anxious of infecting other people i've been meeting a lot of covert patients so idea of not infecting people is really appealing.

and ross will be able to watch these 60 festival premieres in headquarters on the island or in a screening room in how to whereas lighthouse have video diary will go online during his stay. the focus of the festival is social distancing and how the panda because change the world and our relationship with film a week on this island of watching movies is an attempt to at least us break the surface of the sense of isolation felt by millions during the lockdowns of the past year cinemas journey away from theaters and into the home began a long time ago going to the movies in the company of strangers make it more appealing again once the pandemic finally ends paul reese al-jazeera come there where sweden. top stories. for a 2nd week demanding the release of jailed.