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restrict travel to the country over concerns about the spread of a new coronavirus variant. donald trump has reportedly passageways with his key defense lawyers 8 days before his impeachment trial begins. and going solo the swedish film festival and for one lucky movie a chance to watch films on an island alone for a week. hundreds of protesters have already been arrested across russia as they demonstrate in defiance of police orders demanding the release of jailed opposition politician alexei novell me the 2nd week of protests comes despite warnings from the interior ministry which says the demonstrations are illegal these of the scenes live in the city of in the siberian region of russia the far east heavily armed peace police

are out in force across the country and have been shutting down streets and metro stations that only himself was arrested when he arrived from germany where he'd been recovering from a poisoning and blames the kremlin for the last attack which it's a nice now in just a moment we'll be getting all the latest from alexandra gold foil who is in moscow but 1st this report from victoria case and be. 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 has rarely been 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. well let's cross now to alexandra gold fly who's in moscow and i was on there was saying groups of protesters coming out across the country what are the numbers like compared to last weekend. well indeed this is a 2nd weekend in a role that people are coming out across russia to protest and the 2nd week in and out all day are being detained now what we saw and what we know about it is that

the number of process is less than last weekend but number of police is far bigger than it was and also is the number of detained so far the last numbers are of more than 260 people detained off which most of them are from city of live also up which is in the far east of russia where people were basically pushed by the police on the. frozen water bait and then later the police detained them almost everybody that was there there is also reports all police in use of force to detain people. of. in some petersburg almost all the central streets are completely sealed off so it seems that the florida keys are better prepared to d.s. this weekend and are ready to do their utmost to prevent people from coming in the

ones that are coming to protest to detain as swiftly as possible now the largest numbers we did see last time and most of what measures are being taken that into sway protesters from coming out. well now i am at square. where in an hour a protest is supposed to start and what we see is that the whole the very center of moscow is completely sealed off but this is the heart of russian power that is sealed off that's where the kremlin is the presidential administration the parliament and also the main headquarters of the russian federal security service or where people are to come but it is not very likely that they will manage to do so because everything is completely closed off the central metro stations are closed the trains are not going to are not stopping here when it comes to the buses public transport there to completely avoid this area same council for this to

be on the huge square is completely empty because police is letting in only journalist and we saw a couple of people that actually work in nearby buildings people police went around warning cafes to switch off their wife i there also tried to shut down internet here to prevent people from coordinating and communicating between each other this is really unprecedented measures that are being taken today in moscow in order to prevent people from gathering or to make their numbers numbers are small as possible scattering them across the town. close eye on this story alexander gold for the moment thanks for joining us now from moscow. well members of the 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 it's thought to be where the virus was 1st detected the team has visited 2 hospitals that were at the center of the early outbreak will also visit a covert 19 museum dedicated to the early history of the pandemic before drafting a report. brazil's neighbors are imposing new restrictions on travel to and from latin america's largest country as concern about a new coronavirus variant spreads across the region rollouts provides some hope but officials warn there's still a long way to go before the end of the pandemic and reports. the 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 one a medic is dying every day the virus has killed 10000 bolivians the government has

ordered 15000000 more doses of the russian sputnik and the oxford 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 inform 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 well borders remain closed trapping these migrants mostly from haiti but also cuba and africa their ultimate destination is united states does your 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. galen 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 for covering from the virus and to announce the purchase of vaccines. i still have covert but the doctors told me to to 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 groan a virus. 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. portugal says it's running out of intensive care beds as it struggles with the world's highest coronavirus death toll per capita health ministry data. shows there are only 7 intensive capitals left on the mainland out of 850 some critically ill patients are being sent to portuguese islands including the dara school is also recorded the highest number of new cases per capita in the past week. hundreds of protesters in romania have called for the president to resign a day after

a fire at one of its main hospitals for coated 1000 patients at least 5 people died in the blaze barbara i'm going to reports. these charred window frames some of what's left of my hospital after a fire swept through it fire crews worked through the night to put out the flames removing 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. even more than that i am but it 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 although 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 but. 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 caved pandemic remained his health system had been criticised over an efficiency and politicised management this

latest fire is set and to put the government under more pressure to reform it barbara and al-jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera losing patience find out why people in sudan of protesting and demanding economic change. and a glimmer of hope scientists are one step closer to saving the northern white rhino from extinction. it's time for the perfect gentleman who went sponsored point qatar airways there's quite a large area of eastern europe this beat here which is a study on the ground sitting under an area of high pressure and around which all the rest of the weather is being steered and that's quite warm with potentially stormy weather so tempers are coming up in some places there's a flood warning out as

a result of that for example in the southwest of france to cause that it comes across these waters and measured intense stormy quite often than the balkans get hit we're sitting pretty in the middle here there with temperatures in the low single figures or even subzero by day was or was minus 2 so you get most the snow where there's a contrast these temperatures that's the balkans running through for example ukraine once again careful get lost now during monday but it's rain further west rain and wind quite often parses up to 11 degrees clearly when you get the alps things are a bit different than in geneva is going to be great horrible i suspect temperatures asked slowly rising but was rain for monday tuesday and wednesday now some of that always spills over into the north coast of africa this is no exception 11 degrees or more in tunisia 15 in the capital on shore breeze and a few showers mostly it's fine elsewhere it's quite hot in nigeria.

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defiance of police orders demanding the release of jailed opposition politician alexina valmy the world health organization experts a visit to the market in the chinese city of will hand as they continue their investigation into the origins of the pandemic a live animal market is thought to be where the virus was 1st detectives. guyana colombia argentina and peru all the latest countries to impose travel restrictions on brazil due to his credit $1000.00 variant and it comes as all dorothy's in amazonas state say the health care system is on the brink of collapse. former u.s. president ronald trump has parted ways with his lead impeachment lawyers little more than a week before his trial according to u.s. media senators have already been sworn in as jurors from his accused of inciting the siege at the capitol building earlier this month his aides say they plan to argue the trial is unconstitutional because he's no longer in office early

indications show limited republican support for conviction. as a professor of government at georgetown university in cata he says trump's chances of acquittal are high high enough that he doesn't need a strong defense. what i'm hearing is that trump wants to make the case at the impeachment trial that the election was stolen and there's 2 problems with that 1st of all it clearly was not stolen that's been adjudicated dozens of times and there's 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 the right kind of defense in a trial like this he's obviously done this but he doesn't need a very strong case because it takes 2 thirds of the senate to convict 2 thirds of the senate who are present so 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 party that threat is enough to keep many of the republican senators in line however he's also threatening to show up himself to defend himself that would be quite a circus but i think it would also be it's 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 you waited a 2nd time then that doesn't really help either the republicans don't want to go on record with the vote. but some of them said let's not have a trial might rent space with the actual evidence with the video of the invasion actually go to convict. participants in libya's u.n. sponsored peace talks have approved a list of candidates seeking to lead the country's transitional government $24.00 of vying for 3 presidential council posts and $21.00 for prime minister those

selected for the transitional government will be responsible for preparing a national election at the end of 2021 the vote is seen as an important milestone towards ending a decade of chaos and conflicts. at least 2 people have died and 60 have been injured in the explosion as a petrol station in yemen a plume of smoke could be seen in the sky before the blast happened several nearby shops and vehicles were burned or destroyed by the explosion thousands of displaced people in syria's in the province have been left homeless by flooding rain storms that began almost 2 weeks ago worsens an already critical humanitarian crisis the north western region is the last rebel stronghold where fighting is called widespread to splay spent aid groups say they don't have adequate access to help people affected by the floods sudan's to tearing economy has sparked protests in its capital and other states the crisis has already led to the overthrow of one

government and 2019 but after nearly 18 months under a new administration there's no sign of relief. morgan reports from car too. this has become a way of expressing anger at the economic conditions in sudan's capital khartoum protesters blocked the city's main roads to pressure the government to improve living conditions the presence of basic commodities like bread fuel and electricity have gone up in recent months. there's no economy there's no fuel no bread no cooking gas the countries in crisis things were bad before but now they are much worse in other parts of the capital and the country the anger at the economy has been more vocal sudan's transitional government has been facing an economic turmoil since coming to power in. its blamed it on 20 years of u.s. sanctions that were lifted in $10.00 to $17.00 and the policies of the previous government under vent president. he was overthrown by his military after weeks of

anti-government protests that were also sparked by hikes in prices of basic commodities the current administration has promised to improve the economy but after 18 months protesters say the situation has not improved much. things are still the same there is no change when bashir was in power the dollar was worth 50 now it's $300.00 we don't know what to do anymore we used to protest for justice and accountability now they've distracted us from that with demands for bread fuel and cooking gas. the government says the scarcity of commodities and the rise in market prices are caused by shortages of hard currency because of limited international trade and exports while the official rate is $55.00 sudanese pounds to the us dollar most of it comes from outside the official system or the parallel market the difference between the 2 has been climbing steeply the government has held to donor conferences with the aim of improving the economy it's also negotiated with the us government to be taken off its list of states sponsoring

terrorism and opened its markets for international trade and investment in exchange sudan had to agree to recognize israel one of the few arab countries to do so last year but the economic problems run deeper so than owes more than $60000000000.00 to the world bank which has made it difficult for it to get more loans to ease its economic crisis and since the government subsidizes medicine and fuel for some sectors it needs hard currency so the demand for cash with the parallel market being the only option has brought down the value of its local currency increasing the rate of inflation and frustration for many here the administration says it's found solutions to some of these challenges. the report we have is that there is no skews to you there are lines for fuel medicine and brood to get daily updates to know what's the root cause for scarcity no one in the government is blowing to what the people suffer and we've spoken to the banks responsible for importing goods and they will increase the amount of fuel tank is imported as well as wheat and

medicine to ease the situation back on the streets those barricading the main roads say they hope the government listens to them and understand that even if the commodities are available it won't mean much because they simply can't afford to buy them people morgan al-jazeera heard of some. refugees to a low lying island despite calls from human rights groups to stop and warn the island is at risk of falling from storms bangladesh wants to resettle a 10th of the $1000000.00 refugees living in camps on the mainland they took refuge there after being forced out by mirchi crackdown in neighboring mandel. more than 70 percent of hong kong 7 and a half 1000000 people can now apply for a social special visa that could lead to british citizenship the u.k. government introduced the scheme for holders of the british national overseas or b.n. no passport after china imposed a sweeping national security lure in hong kong china says it will no longer recognize the b.n.a.

valid travel documents. tens of thousands of people rallied across france on saturday to protest a bill that would make it criminal to publish video of on duty police officers they say the draft law will undermine press freedom and make it more difficult to expose police brutality showing white policeman beating a black music producer in november led to several protests. haven 19 has forced the postponement or cancellation of many film festivals around the world but some are insisting the show will go on the gothenburg film festival in sweden held a contest to give one person the chance to see old 60 films from a remote location pool race 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 in the cab 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 applicant is emergency nurse lisa who has 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 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 pandemic is change the world and our relationship with film a week on this island of watching movies is an attempt to at least to scrape 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 but gone 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 now is a glimmer of hope in the race to save the northern white wine nostra us from extinction 2 more embryos have been successfully created bringing the total number to 5. reports there are many challenges before a coffin born. scientists in kenya it's only in germany have for years been

tirelessly working together to save the northern white rhino from extinction events there have been obstacles with a pandemic affecting one of the most important conservation projects in the world and after several failed attempts to harvest a number of immature eggs known as finally there was a breakthrough in december 14 eggs were harvested from 5 to one of the last 2 remaining northern white rhinos on earth that was our highest number of you ever got from rhino and we were extremely happy about it outcome and on christmas eve 2 embryos for frozen so that. at another 2 and bluest of the existing sphere. all 5 embryos are now stored in liquid nitrogen in a lab in to be the scientists are looking at ways to implant the embryos into a sargon mother a southern white rhino after roaming in the wild for millions of years the last

remaining northern white male named sudan died in 2018 scientists saved his sperm and used it to fertilize the eggs of his granddaughter a fact that neither fast today nor her mother knows gene can carry a cough and this is where the southern white rhino comes in we already done quite a few war a little war with using sound and why anybody else which other less preachers than the northern y. as are told to understand and to develop the procedures so far out of that i'm sure we didn't get the brain you see but we are understanding what the problems the challenge is don't stop there experts say they don't have much time to save one of the largest land mammals on earth they have to produce a car and the next to see years but right now we can't believe doctors are not on my time i remember those because we haven't pulled them that we can produce a pregnancy and therefore we working with info to solve them that i was using exist

technology to helping them to have a cough and then get properly is a pool of that ample transfers that entire cascade is successful. one of the most endangered species in the world once roam central africa in large numbers but decades of poaching and destruction of their habitat led to their extinction in the wild while the embryos raise hope the process of saving the northern white rhinoceros still faces many challenges including whether a car borne from this process would even survive so hard at al-jazeera. go with al-jazeera these are our top stories hundreds of protesters have been arrested across russia as they demonstrate in defiance of police orders demanding the release of jailed opposition politician alexina valmy alexander god is in

moscow.