the systematic killing led to the displacement of millions of people the paramilitaries dictated that lives in the zones they took on areas the state could never reach under pressure from the dea the criminals who came after probably rescued one hunted down their shell companies were dismantled under arrest and increased. al-jazeera. you're watching the news hour live from headquarters and. coming up in the next 60 minutes. a crackdown in russia more than 2000 protesters arrested as crowds take to the streets demanding the

release of opposition leader. lock down anger demonstrations planned across europe against strict coronavirus restrictions and the economic fallout. donald trump has reportedly parted ways with his key defense lawyers 8 days before his impeachment trial begins and we'll tell you how the nigerian government plans to revamp 3 if its oil refineries after years of mismanagement and corruption. and i'm peter simply. sentence to win the cup a little to do it is i mean do you qualify for the club. welcome to the news hour heavily armed police are cracking down on protesters and russia as they defy government orders to stay home they're demanding the release of jailed opposition politician alexei navalny so activists say more than 2000 people

have been arrested across the country and in some areas whole rallies have been broken up in moscow activists are being dragged away as soon as they come onto the streets on the far eastern city of light of all stock police block protesters from reaching the sensor forcing them onto the frozen waterfront as you can see from this picture and warnings from russia's interior ministry have seen crowds shrink but thousands have turned out regardless of alexina volley was arrested 2 weeks ago when he arrived from germany that's where he'd been recovering from a poisoning he blames the kremlin for the attack which it denies let's cross examine her god for who is joining us from wasco moscow so have all these wife has been detained we understand xander and many people still out on the streets are they still gathering. well you see yes indeed the union i know his wife she showed up to these protests and she was not for

a very long time on the street before she was detained as were many others that appear today the last number says that more than 500 people have been detained. in moscow now the police have blocked the very center of the moscow so people started gathering in the reserves 3 such of them people gather so they did go for protest walk which ended up not very far away from i'm standing and that is in front of detention center where. of course predictably there worse they are biomass is off the police and pushed away from the part of town but the one of the one his associates told. through the internet social networks that made their point by reaching this detention center and called on everybody to return to previous points of gathering so there is. groups of people go back

towards well i would not say the center but for sure direction and what about in other parts of the country because we understand there are protests going on in at least 100 cities. well yes indeed it started early this morning which was they then in the far east of russia which sounds like and then it crossed over. into euro and the measures to clean all these places were much more than we can but they were rather different so as you said in russia also people were sort of ice and then they were detained there were which is a town in or out mountain there were a couple of thousands of people but in petersburg which is also home. police reports are coming in quite

a rough using also teir gas and shockers and there was quite a crowd that braved together there today are eyes on xander thank you very much for that update from moscow. let's get mark of he's a former public spokesman for vladimir putin and he's also joining us from moscow thanks for speaking to us on the al-jazeera news hour how do you think the kremlin is looking into these protests today see them as the threats. i seem to. be stressed because. people are clicking on the sense that it's also our strongest read it must limit that because of course this is just not what i want to know i mean about you it's like you've been would you want some time i think you know i want to be really important role my sort of thing as a country where regattas did not climate cool here well we took our agent as a united states i mean. what evidence do you have to support that claim

i mean people that we have speaking to are saying that they're coming out in support of the lexan of all the himself and also the issues that are important to them in russia such as the corruption and such as the lack of political freedom. maybe you will get you news out myself no no go ahead. i answered for you i have not i understand this is a point you should doesn't like well. you know i'm here you have to use it clear because of all so to all that you're such a little cool sure my george was a people in the russian. you know what i may outgrow american political actions 2nd if your company or by me to composition or produce enough wire me or i need to go he sure you can buy these a 100 percent say it's always a good position or is it united states of america government agency no one

difference between parties for but he's not he's you know money and but he's got position of the united states but again no getting out unsubstantiated claims mr survey let's go back to the point of how concerned the kremlin should be over this you're saying that they're not concerned yet what we're seeing is thousands of people have been arrested dozens of criminal investigations have been opened the wife of alexei navalny has just been to taint surely with such a heavy handed response it shows they're worried. no they don't want to do much and of course this is illegal. and not east to riches geo or a gun the eyes and said yes of course that all meeting should be illegal although mr shouldn't be on the illegal see it kaliya a legal status it receives public don't give up and say we'll come to know it was upbeat same. as they would it do fit in our stats so was it there when he spoke at

my station and every weekend and of course 5 protests but i'm still with russia why because i know of course that almost 0 economy grows do incur in here and that it be demeaning their own private 90 and. get the green i got it's. normal people but these protests will gore was a leftist and bucket was a nationalist but not to rule i made a complete your sense exceeded not by me well let me ask you about getting on the ball easily predict and some got not well i should start because i know i are quoting tools that you can all it's just all. someone should be killed and begin sokol is saying there at the time and said to be he was for that into single world that's all grim and brit that some kind o.

water water agency is or will kill someone. but to test us and send it assists and then some super bowl you say there are leaks and let me and you keep bringing up the united states let me ask you about the response from the us because we know now that some people around the valley or asking for the biden administration to impose sanctions on high profile people close to the russian president and the secretary of state himself has also weighed in he's condemned what he's calling the harsh tactics used against the protesters what's your response to that. it's clear it's a looter united states government i didn't set up on the ticket items and they're right russia will carry on but it goes into united states probably will support them too but russia the one step on it is going to talk russia in united states but it's great but it wouldn't borders and so on and we passed through to kind our american partners due respects or in egypt are actually it's not on the asking

corporate is a claim it is asking because that russian people can also draw shot and western countries now it's a continent absolute majority russian people believe that russia is right and western countries are wrong and he said not by me clearly believes that russia is wrong and worse and come to this as a right our rights and russia will be true to cognize here morning oh those are the muslim continents and why should i write is this. just limit us a little support is a bit narrow or on digital sex aggressive search every time aggressive game marco reus will have to leave it there we thank you very much for speaking to us from moscow plenty more head on the al-jazeera news are coming up including this crippled by covert a soaring rate of infection that leaves portugal with just 7 available intensive

care beds. but i don't think that done with domestic and international tourists numbers are down significantly the local economy is like in a beating as a result of the lockdown measures economists say there's no quick fix. and sport with peter manchester city's winning run continues in the premier league details a little later. but 1st hundreds of people have been arrested in belgium's capital that's where crowds are demonstrating against coronavirus restrictions they're frustrated with the country's tough lockdown and its 9 pm curfew a ban on non-essential travel to and from belgium was also introduced on wednesday police in the netherlands are also bracing for protests hundreds have been arrested nationwide during consecutive nights of anti curfew riots it's the worst civil unrest the netherlands has faced in 4 decades and the 1st curfew since the 2nd

world war let's bring in stuff os and she's joining us from amsterdam tell us more about the protests going on in the netherlands. yes the protesters are gathering here now in the center of amsterdam despite an emergency decree that imposed by the mayor of amsterdam on this particular area police is also here out in full for us because in the last couple of weeks they used the violence to clear this area of a 1000 or even a few thousands of protesters there are special search warrants also in place police is going around but until now they haven't cleared the area i think a couple of few 100 protesters are here now protesting against the restrictions against the curfew as well in brussels so also 100 tough being detained already who are also trying to have a similar kind of protests in august cities around europe as well you can say that

this support for corona measures around europe is decreasing pull in belgium showed that around 40 percent of the people are really fed up they don't support this these corona mattias any longer that's compared to 70 percent just a few weeks ago what one thing that stands out here is that there was a promise and the hope for fractionation and doing this this very dark period here in europe many were. really hopeful that in the next few weeks there would be a sort of kind of a relief but work we've seen now is that the rollout of the fax nations in europe is really hampered and it's really going fairly slowly especially here in the nebulous so people don't see any perspective and that's why support for government policies are really decreasing and there are protests going on elsewhere in europe as well stuff yes the also protests

also announced in vienna as specially also supported by extreme rights groups that's also similar that what we've seen here in the nablus extreme right roups are actually sort of playing along with these protests but that protest has been canceled it's very clear that authorities in europe don't allow these kinds of protests at all and that's not a sentiment that's going around people are complaining like contra use or democratic rights the government say well there's a medical emergency so you're not supposed to gather so police have come out in full force of my mum's i'm looking at a whole line of police cars and trying to square right now so they're really tied to a stricture and then you wonder if that could backlash could backfire making people even more angry and upset. some thank you for that update from amsterdam. germany's military is sending medical staff and equipment to portugal as the country deals with one of the world's worst coronavirus how it breaks the health

ministry data shows that there are only 7 intensive care beds left on the mainland out of 850 some critically ill patients are being sent to portuguese islands including madeira portugal has the highest 7 day average of infections and deaths per capital globally let's speak to ricardo but let's who is a doctor and the head of public health of the catholic university of portugal he's joining us from lisbon thanks for your time with us on al-jazeera what's behind the surge of infections in portugal. the situation is only comparable surely to to a tsunami in the sense of the number. and sanctions that we are seeing on the rise . for weeks on words and this of course then translate into more patients going in to. our rooms which then leads to more people being admitted to hospital beds

and then into ice you bet and sadly the higher death rates we've been seeing this ongoing now for 2 months actually have to 3 months now and the truth is only rast friday we start to see the true slowdown in a rise of new cases following the closing of schools and a more strict lockdown that was imposed 2 weeks before sadly though as we all know the lockdown measures tend to have a long delay between affecting the number of new infections and then affecting the number of hospital admission so all projections are for seeing that the 1st fortnight of february will be of even greater pressure in portugal and even going beyond the hospital bed so we have a public service if you bring in the private sector really only have around $1250.00 i.c.u.

bets in total and we've passed the 800 we're basically at 850 x. you beds just for kobe patients and mind you that we are in the middle of the winter we typically have many more patients with other diseases the typical rate at which we use i.c.u. beds in the winter in normal times would be around 80 percent so this is a high risk situation not just for copd patients but for all everyone in my my colleagues my doctors the nurses everyone the health care workers have been on 11 months ongoing working constantly no breaks no. vacation's everybody is extremely tired they're really giving their best out there but we really need to crush the curve and to accelerate the number of vaccines that are being administrated so that we can put this and a mic under control here and how do you though explain to me going back to the numbers off the i.c.u. beds in portugal seemingly running out of i.c.u. beds to treat covered patients how do you explain that the health service in the

country seems to be really buckling under the strain. well you know when we when you look at the numbers at late night 2019 even had less ice events there was an investment over the dependent me to have a few more 100 beds which now as i said if you bring together all of the different private and public sector bets together puts you around $1200.00 thing is it's just an issue of sheer volume and the lack of preparedness in terms of prevention of avoiding the rise of infections to a point that goes beyond our capacity is what has led to this surge and of course we know it's it's like an issue it's like the titanic when you see the iceberg you can try to turn but you're going to hit it anyway you need to prepare in advance that lack of preparedness is something we are paying very very hardly now with human sacrifice truly with the surge of the mess we've passed the 5000 that mark

just in january. and if you look for every co looking at excessive mortality in our country for every code that there has been one death for other cases so everyone is suffering and as you were mentioning fortunately we have the iowans are now but their island has taken some patients out of who has been hospitals which is under stress fortunately in the north the situation is seeing we are more under control hopefully it will continue and that perhaps but listen in central portugal is really under stress germany is sending up medics but also austria has now offered to take in some patients in their own hospitals so in this kind of international support now is critical of me right now and it's going to be if the difficult weeks ahead we do wish you the best of luck thank you so much ricardo about the slate for speaking to us from lisbon thank you thank you. now tourism in south africa has been hit hard by

a coven 1000 locked down in the industry is vital for the economy particularly in cape town but businesses across the city are struggling to stay open robin adams has been finding out more. time is always been a dream destination for travelers around the world the list of must see it directions is endless. december and january a peak periods for tourism in the cape but visitor numbers are down by as much as 90 percent static lock down legalization to include night time curfews and a ban on alcohol sales beaches are off limits to all of those snaps posted to social media nowadays include some interesting visitors 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 business is. closed down if they're not already closed down the done you know

family originally from bulgaria has been struggling to make ends meet i mean. despite the reduced client numbers husband daniels to a company which he started in 2007 has not. helped i used to here for 19 now i have only one i don't have income from march of last year. just. in long street the heartbeat of guy turns into payments seem they are for sale and to let signs everywhere. to get to the streets no one can know it can 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 early a year businesses on the phone suffering. ordinarily on that side of the main job

it would be lined with informal traders selling their way is mainly african but only a handful of them remain notorious even the basic clothes they've been so some days they just come with just maybe you can get different going to run for survival is very difficult because of lockdown so what's the way forward how will get done we cover these are questions we put to the local government who look at the industry as all it's really important sic to focus on a contributes around about one comma $2000000000.00 u.s. dollars to the city's economy and it creates around about $300000.00 direct and indirect jobs so for us a priority is to make sure that we stabilize to do what is on the landscape by making as much relief available to our to resume and hospitality industry and that could be for example the reclassification of your property if you've got a tourism business property back to presidential category and that could really reduce right spalls we've also implemented these are the reasons for people

drinking or building from we're going to support it so that we can just you know give people that financial relief at this point in time while many of cut their losses and closed up shop people like daniel i mean. jack and the estimated 75000 of his was jobs like risk in the midst who have no choice but to live out the storm. items al-jazeera. bharat's is a professor of economics and director of the development policy research unit at the university of cape town and he says it's the largest contraction of south africa's economy in modern economic history. i think what's happened as with most emerging markets and certainly on the african continent as well and globally is a massive contraction saw growth or cost or 2020 indicate an average consensus contraction of about 6 and a half percent relative to last year say fate of li is seeing the largest

contraction in south africa's modern economic history. and the consequences of that 2200000 jobs lost at the last count what's going to happen is we are probably going to as as loft on eases and assuming that we don't have a 3rd wave. come back on stream across the board including those in the tourism sector and you're going to see a probably a push an increase in growth rates 2021 average consensus again of about 3 percent and let terms it still means that we are not quite back where we were created covert 19 but it means some woman for it in terms of jobs what's going to happen i think is a recovery of some jobs i think those jobs in the informal sector in domestic services those with what we call low intrigued area and exit. jobs those will probably come back on stream and so he's seeing some sort of a recovery into 2021 of some of those 2000000 jobs lost the concern is the

permanent job losses and so 111 data point to keep an eye on is our unemployment rate which averages about 25 percent one of the highest in the emerging world is that going to take up beyond 25 percent as the back seam comes in and over 1000 dissipates time for a check on the weather has rob. the atmosphere has turned really quite turbulent we now have 2 tropical cyclones to look at lucas has just been named is out of open water the moment has just gone across the main island of fiji now it was classified just into the lowest of the hurrican range so when strength was sufficient to cause some damage this is what happened when it was being filmed over the maid and viti levu in fiji now there's one person missing at least and some damage but the things now went away from the island is going further south lucas is make his way down

towards new caledonia possibly vanuatu but currently is over open water and then behind me this circulation as yet unnamed potentially develops into a tropical cyclone off the west coast of australia is already flood warnings out for this part of australia which is sparsely populated with easily flooded it being largely desert and that circulation carries on the next day or so tuesday sees lucas come further science but as yet we just produce vast amounts of rain in for example van erotic the same time over australia it's hot in the interior but in melbourne way down to 19 again in sydney having seen a sunday or monday is only slightly better on tuesday. here's what's coming up on the al-jazeera news hour fears of a coup a cloud of uncertainty i mean amar as the newly elected parliament prepares to meet for the 1st time. farmers protesting in india stage a day long hunger strike against the government's controversial new agricultural laws and iommi osaka says she'll gladly quarantine if it means she can play at the

olympics we'll hear from her a little later and sports. the journey to work can be a challenge on its own. but for some peruvian villagers traversing one of the world's most dangerous roads is a risk that comes with the job. we follow the journey of these people as they give their all to survive. risking it all. on al-jazeera. what is the price of luxury. an undercover team travels deep into the illegal cocoa plantations of the ivory coast simple solutions are very hard to find for something as complicated as the child

labor of chocolates hearts of darkness and counters unpatrolled laborers working in a $100000000000.00 industry overhaul of the country's cocoa producers live below the poverty line. on al-jazeera. the. and the top stories on the al-jazeera news hour activists say more than 2000 people have been arrested across russia they defied bans on protests this was the scene in st petersburg a short time ago where demonstrators are demanding the release of jailed opposition politician alex and involve. hundreds have been arrested in belgium's capital during. protests crowds are rallying against the country's tough restrictions on

its 9 pm curfew a ban on nonessential travel to and from belgium was also introduced wednesday. and germany's military is sending medical staff and equipment to portugal as a deals with one of the worst coronavirus so breaks health ministry data shows that there are only 7 intensive care beds left on the mainland. the former u.s. president donald trump has parted ways with his lead impeachment lawyer as little more than a week before his trial that's according to u.s. media senators have already been sworn in as jurors trump is 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 but early indications show limited republican support for a conviction let's speak to gabriel joining us from washington d.c. so what does this mean for trump's preparations for the senate because they seem to

have hit a roadblock. yes certainly i mean this was a little bit unexpected it's not only trump's lead lawyer that apparently has parted ways but it's also 4 other lawyers as well that were part of the defense team that have also apparently decided to move on as well a cording to a trump official this was a quote mutual decision but nevertheless this throws his impeachment trial defense indicate awesome he was a chaos president in many ways and he appears to be. a former president as well this is sort of donald trump's style but clearly this comes at a bad time for him as you mentioned just a little over a week away till that trial is supposed to begin but also on this tuesday coming up is when trump's legal defense team was expected to submit their response

to the senate a written response to the senate on the impeachment charges against him. for the former president so all this is now up in the air we have no idea who will be representing donald trump at this senate trial now expected to be a little over a week from now well obviously we know where the democrats than don all of this but what about the republicans because how likely is it that he'll actually be convicted and the republicans will convict in that senate trial. yeah it seems unlikely anything is of course possible in washington these days but it does seem unlikely and this is why in order for a conviction in the senate you need 2 thirds to vote for a conviction if you have all of the democrats vote for it which seems very likely he would need 17 republicans in the senate to vote for a conviction right now only 5 republicans have indicated that they likely will do

that so the democrats are short on the number of votes they need from republicans for that conviction of course anything could change nevertheless it does seem at this point unlikely nevertheless though democrats feel it's important to move forward with this impeachment trial because they say that it's just part of the entire impeachment process remember it's a 2 part process the 1st process was in the house of representatives that the house charged donald trump so that impeachment stands it's now just a question of will the senate convict him the last point on this is even if he is not convicted in the senate the senate can then take another vote that could potentially bar donald trump from ever running for office again that would be a separate both it only takes a simple majority so there's still quite a bit at stake here right deborah is on the thank you for that update from washington d.c. . almost all nato troops will reportedly remain in afghanistan beyond may despite

a deal between the u.s. and the taliban to draw down numbers senior nato officials have told reuters the deal is conditions have not been met with the taliban blamed for a spike in violence the report suggests u.s. troops which make up the bulk of the nato mission will therefore stay the u.s. hasn't commented on that report the biden ministration had previously said it's reviewing the agreement with the taleban. brazil's neighbors are imposing new restrictions on travel to and from latin america's largest country that is concerned about a new coronavirus variant spreads across the region vaccine rollouts provides some hope but officials warn there is still a long way to go before the end of the pandemic to the reports. a rare piece of good news amongst the coronavirus misery believe us 1st like the nation a nurse in the country's hard hit eastern city of santa cruz and messy messy. i feel good very excited and also

a bit nervous but 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 small nick 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 test 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 in 4 of my law school and beyond 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 cup. well borders remain closed trapping these migrants mostly from haiti but also cuba and africa their ultimate

destination is united states lab and this young 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 maxine's bolivia daigle i still have covert but the dr stone me to tie have passed the critical phase i'm now 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 the country in the world with the 3rd highest number of coronavirus deaths more than 155000 behind only the u.s.

and 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 that in america it can get much worse the vaccination programs provide hope but on the horizon it's still a long way off when they're all jazeera when osiris. members of the world health organization team have visited a market in the chinese city of han as they investigate the origins of the pandemic the animal market distributed food to the entire city and is thought to be where the virus was 1st detected the team has visited 2 hospitals that were at the center of the early outbreak they also visit a covert $1000.00 museum dedicated to the early history of the pandemic before

drafting a report israel is to transfer 5000 vaccine doses to palestinian medical workers that's according to a government spokesperson the country has drawn criticism for excluding palestine's occupied territories from its rapid vaccine rollouts more than a quarter of israel's 9000000 population rather has received at least one dose of the pfizer job but palestine has had to rely mostly on its own vaccine procurements and the un's kovacs scheme for developing nations and israel's parliament is voting on a bill that would increase fines for violating covert 1000 restorations a nationwide lockdown is due to end early monday morning israel's alternate prime minister benny gantz says his party won't approve extending the lockdown until a bill to increase fines is passed well the israeli army has killed a palestinian who it says attempted to attack soldiers in the occupied west bank

security camera footage shows the man pulling an object from his pocket running toward soldiers at a bus stop he was then shot dead the army allege he had 3 knives connected to a stick this happened in an area south of bethlehem that has 2 dozen illegal settlements and outposts. bangladesh is relocating more rohingya refugees to a low lying island despite calls from human rights groups to stop they warn the island is at risk of flooding from storms bangladesh wants to resettle a 10th of the 1000000 refugees living in camps on the mainland they took refuge there after being forced out by a military crackdown in neighboring me and maher well a day head of the opening of a new parliament in me and maher there are fears of a possible military coup. government want november's elections by a landslide but i can say sions of electoral fraud protests and an increasing security private presence have put the country in

a state of uncertainty alley fall reports from yangon. tension on the streets of miami this week as the country braces for a possible political crisis and. we're not saying the military will take power but we're not saying it won't either. this was the moment that it all began in a press conference on tuesday military spokesperson zoom in turn and refused to rule out the possibility of a coup. the following day military chief minister lying still fears when he said the constitution should be repealed if it was not abided by the comments follow weeks of complaints from the military a voter fraud in november is election and demands for an investigation of the military is forcing you you see in the government no no you can't just ignore us. stakeholder we have. obligations we have the guardian to the court if you're saying

so this is a major message the military is trying to send it to the government and also the international community. fear escalated after reports of an increasing security presence and sightings of armored vehicles being moved around various cities as tensions reached their peak on saturday the military issued a new statement saying the commander in chief's comments had been misinterpreted. but just hours later emboldened by rumors hundreds of protesters gathered in yangon at a pro-military rally where speeches welcomed a coup with support of the people protests like this have been happening on an almost daily basis over the last week while they have been getting attention they don't control the numbers that would be considered the popular support the best crowd is gaining confidence and if so can fit in the community as the pressure builds the have been violent attacks on and i'll the supporters watching on. the

n l d say accusations of voter fraud a just being used as an excuse to sow fear. your way railway senior general minong lang is making the m.l.d. scared and making the people scared his main intention is to extend his senior general position. military chief men online is due to retire in july and may be fearful of losing power although imminent action from the military now appears less likely tension remains high as relations between the civilian government and the military reach an all time low alley file al jazeera younger. the journalists in india are protesting against the arrest of a colleague who was detained while covering farmers' protests i was reporting on saturday on rallies at the single border where tens of thousands of farmers have protested against new agricultural laws for more than 2 months they want them withdrawn saying they will ruin their lives their herds laura britain miley has more was here are these films have refused food for

a day 100 strike to show people in india that protest is nonviolent i get this off 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 goddess whatever you do the. police disperse the crowds using tear gas on patents. and on cheese day a pharmacist tried to rally culminated in these scenes at you county status right. foam as if you count to 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 fall most of them dropped saying the only benefit to big businesses. although there is heavy police presence the pharma 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 protests 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 that's to blame the label on it 1st the government tried to remove people from the guise of cool 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 around. nearly half of india's population is employed in agriculture 11 rounds of talks between the pharmacy humans 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 to madly al-jazeera. for much of the last 30 years africa's biggest oil producer nigeria has imported refined petroleum products and that's because its old refineries are unable to produce enough and satisfy local demand there's also been decades of mismanagement and corruption now the government has begun a process of rehabilitating 3 if it's refineries madras reports from. this is one of nigeria's government run or oil refineries in the city of port. but

most of his operation has been shut down to a great equipment and facility. the government plans to hand over these money losing venture best just run after decades of mismanagement. africa's biggest oil producer has turned from self-sufficiency in refined petroleum products in the 1970 s. and eighty's to now a net importer of the product. it's for plans continue to operate well below capacity and sometimes shut down for months officials say that cost to stop what we have done different now is to make sure that we know what we're doing we would do it i would go back to the origin of that if i'm going to such a way that you don't stick somebody delegate that project and that is well on cause finances don't go on for one of them while working with us to make sure that we have been as you put it to be funny because. there's a new urgency to complete the commercialization process nigeria has been hit by

a lot on prices and a weakened global demand. the government desperate to shore up its revenue base sees that refineries as a way out of an expensive fuel import regime subsidized at more than $2000000000.00 a year nigeria's refineries are about to face their toughest competition yet africa's biggest refinery owned by the continent's richest man and he couldn't but it will soon start production in nigeria it has the capacity to find 650000 barrels of oil a day compared to the combined capacity of 445000 in government own facilities. all industry sources say between july and september last year the country imported more than 5000000000 liters of refined products. a subsidy program that allowed those connected to politicians to steal hundreds of millions of dollars annually has cost the government huge losses in the past it's crap the subsidy 3 years ago but still the losses continue to mount there we have

a line of sight what does with the jeep when just will be delivered and ultimately will come but will not get out become the hub what it will in product into a cell because of vision so much of fact that we're expecting any bus from west africa what are you just up doing so nigerians say they are cautiously optimistic he these assets revived. it's probably wrong. in spite of the age of the technologies that produced them over 50 years ago they are still refineries of that age around the world of the us to fully functional so i think they can be rejigged to the point where they wish to come back to their functionality boards in such a way that the government of nigeria the peoples of nigeria still have the ass to kick in the refineries officials insist this time it will be different but not judicial so hundreds of millions of dollars lost through the subsidy program say

they'll wait to see how and when the government delivers on its promise. to grease . al-jazeera journalist mahmoud hosain has now been illegally detained in egypt for 1500 days without charge for saying was arrested while was a visiting family in december 26th seen a number of human rights organizations have joined al jazeera demanding his immediate release as the tension is in violation of both egyptian and international law the sports news is coming up on the news hour and not the 1st time in his career is involved in a controversy over the rules of golf peter will be here to explain after the break . halfway between tokyo. she took a was then relatively sleepy place not a lot of violent crime and so when 4 people get killed on one occasion in as bloody

a massacre as this was new tracks a lot of reporting. a task force of each police officers was created to find out what happened. police counted more than 40 stab wounds all together victims.

color again while the pandemic has forced the postponement or counsel lation of many film festivals around the world but some have taken creative steps they got film festival and sweden has held a contest giving one person the chance to see it 60 films from a remote location whole race reports from the islands 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 bank 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 would shudder and we want to take it further and take it to extreme. the winning applicant is a merchant lisa and her author who has been on the frontlines 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 in a lot of patients so idea of not being faked in people is really appealing. and ross will be able to watch the 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 before because of the festival is

a 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 us write the surface of the sense of isolation felt by millions during the lockdowns of the past year cinemas journey away from theatres 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. how in the where sweden. peter is here with an update on the sports there is there in thank you very much we'll start with the biggest game in south american club football and there was very late drama in the final of the cup a limited autists the 2 brazilian team sent us on pomade us were playing in a largely empty merican our stadium in rio only $5000.00 special guests were allowed inside subject to a negative covert 19 test there were no goals until the 99th minute when substitute sabrina lopez scored the winner for us it was their 1st effort on target in the

game but it was enough to secure them the copper trophy for the 2nd time in the history. the celebrations continued into the post match news conference where the palmettos players soaked a coach. the only join the club in november living apart from his family who are back in his native portugal. to stay used to position it costs a lot to be a good coach it's because i can't have both worlds professional and family i'm the worst father worst son worst uncle the worst husband and worst brother it's true i have no doubt that i'm the best coach but i've lost everything that's why i cry into my pillow because i can't be with my daughters there were no fans inside the stadium but there were thousands who gathered at the airport back in sao paolo to greet the palmetto us team on their return home the huge crowds ignoring social distancing rules in a country where more than 220000 people died from the virus 2nd only to the united

states and less than one percent of the population has been vaccinated. palmeiras one there had to carter for the club world cup a tournament for all the continental champions which starts next week european champions by munich will be competing too they won their latest match in germany's buddhist leader for one against hoffenheim and no surprise to see robert leaven dog ski among the score is it keeps them well clear 7 points ahead at the top of the table. adventures the city have strengthened their position of the top of the premier league maybe sheffield united one nil to move 3 points clear and with a game in hand on their nearest rivals manchester united who do no know with arsenal on saturday man united striker marcus rush would have spoken out of being racially abused on social media following that arsenal result the england international described as humanity and social media at its worst he wrote i'm not sharing screen shots it would be irresponsible to do so useful children of all

colors following the and they don't need to read it beautiful colors that should only be celebrated french football club marsay have condemned an attack on a training ground by hundreds of fans that ended up with a player being hurt supporters holding flails continue their violent protests over the team's recent poor form setting fire to trees lacing of smoke bombs and vandalizing the inside of the same for what happened hours before the team was supposed to host rain on saturday the match was postponed of the defender of their organs are as was injured by a throw an object police made several the wrists having just done 14 days of coron tina ahead of the australian open tennis naomi asika says she'll do it again for the olympics in tokyo there were reports last week that the games would be scrapped altogether but that was refuted by the organizers it has not yet been confirmed whether or not to have fleets competing in turkey or would need to undergo a quarantine period the way that i feel is like i will stay in my room for

2 weeks to play the one picks i missed out on the last one and playing in tokyo would be very special to me my concern would be how the general safety of everyone else because you're opening the country and everyone's flying in from different places. but for the 1st time in his career goal for patrick greedy is caught up in a rules controversy this time of the farmers insurance open torrey pines in san diego he does ball into the rough at the 10th hole the ball was embedded so he picked it up and he was given a free drop which is allowed if the ball did not bounce 1st but t.v. replays showed the ball did bounce 1st which has caused the controversy reid went on to save paw and has a share of the food and leading in heading into the final day in $2819.00 he was penalized 2 shots for deliberately improving his lie in a bunker at the hero will challenge when you have the rules officials and so that

you did it textbook and exactly are supposed to do and that's all you can do you know. what we're out there and we're playing we can't we can't see everything that's why you rely on the other players other opponents you rely on volunteers as well as run on the rules officials and when they all say that what we've done was the right thing you move on you go on in the n.b.a. le bron james and the current champions los angeles lakers have stayed in touch with the top teams in the western conference thanks to a narrow win on saturday the lakers were up against the boston celtics who off 1st in the east had suffered 2 defeats in their last 2 games through philadelphia and then detroit but on this occasion they would get the upper hand and any davis scoring 27 points los angeles 196954 their 15th when of the season they are food in the west elsewhere the charlotte hornets were also winners on the bells calling a career high 27 points at charlotte beat the milwaukee bucks 126114 that's 2 wins

in 2 nights for the hornets. i'll be your again later with most sports news 3 was here later that thank you peter and thanks for watching the news hour on al-jazeera we'll take a short break but we'll be back right at the other side of a break with more news on al jazeera or watching. i really did bad thing. would i be able to forgive somebody like me a convicted war criminal seeks out the survivors of a prison camp to apologize for the crimes of his past i just kept. showing. the arm forgiven a witness documentary on al-jazeera my own to ask. has now. said his only change because. people believe in

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