21 geologists are secretly plotting new border. as the struggle for resources be intensified some of the world's most powerful scientists speak out. on 00. 0. a crackdown in russia more than 3000 protesters arrested as crowds take to the streets demanding the release of opposition leader alexei have all. the soldiers there a lie from headquarters and. also coming up lockdown anger demonstrations planned across europe against strict coronavirus restrictions and the economic fallout

donald trump has reportedly parted ways with his key defense lawyers a days before his impeachment trial begins. and we'll tell you how the nigerian government plans to revamp 3 if it's oil refineries after years of mismanagement and corruption. thanks for joining us heavily armed police are cracking down on protesters in russia as they defy government orders to stay home so they're demanding the release of jailed opposition politician i like saying of all me activists say more than 3000 people have been arrested across the country and in some areas the whole rallies have been broken up and moscow activists are being dragged away as soon as they come in on to the streets in the far eastern city of lot of us saw police blocked protesters from reaching the center forcing them onto the frozen waterfronts warnings from russia's interior ministry have seen. crowd strength

thousands of still turns out regardless alexina valmy who was arrested 2 weeks ago when he arrived from germany where he'd been recovering from a poisoning and he blames the kremlin for the attack which it denies let's cross not alexander of god who is joining us from moscow so a lexan of all these wife has been detained and police on the streets are people still managing to gather. well yes indeed alexei navalny is why shouldn't i know she was detained almost immediately when she made herself known that she is participating in these protests now testers came back to what is called here the square of 3 railway stations where from only managed to gather in some bigger numbers and go for protests walk to the detention center where alexei navalny kept one of the closest allies of the line news and the message that they made the point to we did this and told people why

a social networks to return to do this point which is to be a final point of today's protests in moscow now protesters are still coming in and they are yet again encircled by the police who is detaining what testers are now sort of mixed up with the passengers because these are 3 railway stations as i said but that's not to deter police and the whole area is now also encircled with the armored personnel vehicles as well as petty vans and petty buses of which are getting killed by the detained people. what do we know about. these fates himself his trial is due to start next week what will happen. yes indeed he's a hearing is going to start the next week is scheduled to start next week. is alleged. to spend that sentence. and walk to the prison authorities are

saying that he did not report himself as they wanted him to report to. germany that he had. and they are asking are going to ask the court to exchange his suspended sentence to real time in jail which could be somewhere between 2 and a half or 3 and a hot years but in the meantime there is new charges against. alleged embezzlement of his own on the corruption foundation which again if he's convicted on that charge be 10 years in prison so apparently what is being prepared for him at least that's how it looks like years. of jail time and of course. the whole rallies are not only in support of him but also to show the. last number of people who are against. present. a sort of preparation for this

year's parliamentarian elections in russia all right. thank you so much for that update from moscow. hundreds of people have been arrested in belgians 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 is also introduced wednesday police in the netherlands have disperse crowds gathering to demonstrate against a curfew there the country saw multiple nights of riots last week over the new restrictions hundreds have been arrested nationwide it's the worst civil unrest the netherlands has faced in 4 decades on the 1st curfew since the 2nd world war let's speak to stuff and she is joining us from amsterdam so protesters behind you are gathering demonstrating against the coronavirus lockdowns tell us more.

exactly a protest here not that many around 250 maybe 200 but the police drones are flying . and they're actually ordering people to clear this area and they have been ordering this for the last 15 minutes or so last week the police actually cleared this area with violence they use also when water cannons the week before and it was a similar picture but people here they are they say they're peacefully protesting they have no intention of leaving this area we've seen of course in the last week the worst riots in the netherlands in the last 4 decades several cities saw confrontations with police looting happening so nice is now really in full force and their emergency decrease in places so people are not allowed to demonstrate here in a model city as well they are very far reaching rights by police to stop these

demonstrations from happening and some of the picture elsewhere in europe was well . exactly in brussels so hundreds have read. for trying to do a similar kind of protest the boot up process well yeah i'm not that was a protest announced and there on the far right party the freedom party of austria was supposed to get or their leader was supposed to speak but that protest has been cancelled but what we're seeing here in europe is this increasing frustration with the corona mashers especially now also distract same roll out in the european union is much slower than was promised to earlier so people really don't see much of a perspective and that's why a poll in belgium for example it showed that only 40 percent of the people were still supporting to corona matches compared to 706070 percent just a few weeks earlier right stuff awesome reporting from amsterdam thank you

germany's military sending medical staff and equipment to portugal as the country deals with one of the world's worst coronavirus outbreaks 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 capita globally ricardo but later is in charge of public health of the catholic university of portugal he says cases are beginning to fall but the pressure on hospitals is likely to continue for several weeks. this situation is only comparable truly to to a tsunami in the sense of the number of infections that we are seeing on the rise. for weeks on words and this of course then translate into more patients going in to . 'd our rooms would send leads to more people being admitted to hospital beds and

then into ice you beds and sadly to higher death rates we've been seeing this ongoing now for 2 months actually up to 3 months now and the truth is only last friday we started to see a true slowdown in a rise of new cases following the closing of schools and 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 in affecting the number of new infections and then affecting the number of hospital admissions so all projections are for seeing that the 1st fortnight of february will be of even greater pressure in portugal and even go on beyond the hospital beds that we have in the public service if you bring in the private sector really only have around $1250.00 i.c.u.

bats in total and we've passed the $800.00 we're basically at $850.00 s. 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 everyone. brazil's neighbors are imposing new restrictions on travel to and from latin america's largest country is concerned about a new coronavirus variance spreads across the region vaccine rollouts provides some hope but officials warn their store long way to go before the end of the pandemic the 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 and 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 in 4 of my last column 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 the new lockdown has been imposed in the capital or

borders remain closed trapping these migrants mostly from haiti but also cuba in 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 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 the country in the world with the 3rd highest number of coronavirus deaths more than 155000 behind only 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 grown 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 they're all jazeera when osiris. still ahead on al-jazeera fears of acoa cloud of uncertainty main market as the newly elected parliament prepares to meet for the 1st time. i am going solo the sweetest film festival offering one lucky movie buff the chance to watch films on an island alone for a week.

the supply of cold which produces this beautiful fan of showers has been temporarily cut off and we are shoving walls back up into the system so there is temporarily a proper frontal system running out through shanghai and st korea south korea and the southern part of japan with rain not snow the snow the head of it the temperatures risen to about 0 in very vast or the cold will tuck back in again and we're going to go subzero again and she gets that snow in homs shoe where ridge tokyo i don't think than the sun is rather more prevalent in china settles down to minus 3 will not get me cold if anything just slightly less cold in the next 3 days it's still breezy because snow at night on wednesday otherwise probably fine. the

showers spread throughout malaysia into these you're missing this process southeast asia a lot they're focusing further south mostly indonesia mostly sort of way sea and was popular as well and we got them back because this increase in flow from table matters well a bit showery most in your is find same is true of bangladesh and pakistan and of a disturbance coming through the finals of pakistan and northern india which means some storms a possible on wednesday in delhi that was still fog a bit otherwise the whole north indian plain is foggy. but. when all that seems to matter is the headline is always 2 sides to a story when narratives and counter narratives obscure reality the leader on the one hand the enemies of them neither on the other hand the listening post strips away the spin what kind of reporting if you can see on the ground misinformation is right lays bare the bias people believe things because they want to believe them

done covers the uncomfortable truths do you think they did enough to scrutinize the case for war listening post on al-jazeera. the. coverage on the top stories on al-jazeera activists say more than 3000 people have been arrested across russia as they defy bans on protests this is the scene in st petersburg just a short time ago where demonstrators are demanding the release of jailed opposition politician alexei navalny. hundreds have been arrested in belgium's capital during and mocked on protests crowds are rallying against the country's tough restrictions and its 9 pm curfew a ban on non-essential travel to and from belgium was also introduced on wednesday

. germany's military is sending medical staff and equipment to portugal as a deals with one of the worst coronavirus outbreaks health ministry data shows that there are only 7 intensive care beds left on the mainland. 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 there also visit a covert 19 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 people has received at least one dose of the pfizer job palestine has had to rely mostly on its own vaccine procurements and the un's kovacs scheme for developing nations. 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 and running toward soldiers at a bus stop he was then shot dead the army alleges he had 3 knives connected to a stick that happened in an area south of bethlehem that has 2 dozen in the eagle settlements and outposts almost all nato troops will reportedly remain in afghanistan beyond may despite a deal between the u.s. and 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 former u.s.

president donald trump has parted ways with his lead impeachment lawyer is little more than a week before his trial according to u.s. media senators have already been sworn in as jurors trump is accused of and citing the siege of the capitol building earlier this month his aides say they plan to argue the trial is unconstitutional because he is no longer in office gabriel is on those in washington d.c. and he says democrats are unlikely to find enough republican support to convict. according 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 chaos. former president as well this is sort of donald trump 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 be again but also on this tuesday coming

up is when the 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 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. a day ahead of the opening of a new parliament i mean maher there are fears of a possible military coup and sensor cheese and algae government want november's elections by a landslide but accusations of electoral fraud protests and an increasing security presence put the country in a state of uncertainty alley foul reports from young. tension on the streets of myanmar this week as the country braces for a possible political crisis. going on we're not saying the military will take power but we're not saying at one time. this was the moment that it all began in a press conference on tuesday military spokesperson zalman turner refused to rule out the possibility of a coup. the following day the military chief minimum 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 election and demands for an investigation of the military is forcing you receive the government in order no you can't just ignore us real stakeholder we have. obligations we are the guardian to the constitution 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 reach their peak on saturday the military issued a new statement saying the commander in chief's comments had been misinterpreted. the 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 gaining attention they don't control the numbers but what we can. popular support but that crowd is gaining confidence and if they can fit in the community as the pressure builds the have been violent attacks on and l.d. supporters watching on. the n o d say accusations of voter fraud a just being used as an excuse to sow fear. your way railway senior general minimum length is making me a skid and making the people skewed his main intention is to extend his senior general position. military chief men on line is due to retire in july and maybe 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 foul al jazeera younger. al-jazeera journalist ahmad her saying has been illegally detained in egypt for 1500 days

without charge her saying was arrested while visiting family in december 26th seen a number of human rights organizations have joined al jazeera in demanding his immediate release journalists in india are protesting the arrest of their colleague who was detained while covering farmer protests on saturday. was reporting on the rallies at the single border where tens of thousands of farmers have protested new agricultural laws for more than 2 months they want them withdrawn saying they will ruin their livelihoods. for much of the last 30 years africa's biggest oil producer nigeria has imported refined petroleum products because its old refineries are unable to produce enough and satisfy the 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. reports from a boucher. this is one of nigeria's government run refineries in the city of port.

but most of these operations has been shut down to a great equipment and facility. the government plans to hand over these money losing brain just investors to 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 off we should 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 it but that is funded such a way that you don't just pick somebody delegate that budget and that is well on cause finances don't go on for one of them well working with us to make sure that we have been as you put it up to date but it is. 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 the 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 when i did i would become the hubble to tell them but into a sub because of vision so much of fact that we're expecting any buzz from west africa what are you just up doing so nigerians say they are cautiously optimistic in these. 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 in such a way that the big government of nigeria the peoples of nigeria still have their stake in the refineries. officials insist this time it will be different but

nigerians who saw 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 greece al-jazeera. cover 19 has forced they've postponed mentzer cancellation of many film festivals around the world but some are insisting the show must go on the gothenburg film festival in sweden now the contest to give one person the chance to see all 60 films on their own from a remote location all research ports on 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 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 ham 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 watch 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 each day extreme. the winning applicant is emergency nurse lisa 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 patients so idea of not infecting 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 break 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 began a long time ago going to the movies in the company of strangers make it more appealing again once the pandemic finally ends. al-jazeera come there where sweden . hello again the headlines on al-jazeera activists say more than 3000 people have been arrested across russia as they defy bans on protests this was the scene in st petersburg a short time ago where demonstrators are demanding the release of jailed officer some politician alex and a volley hundreds have been arrested in belgium's capital.