this is al jazeera. but there aren't a lot of this is a news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. chanting russia will be free demonstrators ignore police warnings and march to demand the release of opposition leader elected never on the. police have been out in full force continuing to round up the protesters who defied orders to stay at

home. a wave of anger sweeps through parts of europe protesters fed up with cope with 19 restrictions. and don't have income from march of last year we hear from south africans struggling to make a living because of the coronavirus pandemic. donald trump is reportedly parted ways with his kid lawyers 8 days before his impeachment trial and take a look at what this means for his defense. and i'm peter stone with all your sports 20 time grand slam tennis champ in the rafa says he's worried about a potential 2 we quarantine ahead of the tokyo olympics. so we get in russia where heavily armed police surrounded up protesters who came out in defiance of government orders to stay at home they're demanding the release

of jailed opposition politician alexina valmy activists say more than 3000 people have been arrested or it's under god was among the protesters in moscow will be speaking to her in just a moment but 1st let's have this report from i said back. for america you don't have to stay longer to demonstration in russia before you might be arrested right here in the. police wasting no time in taking these protesters away from the ordeal if they had been warned that's still floating in the current circumstances the risk of the protest organizers and active participants provocations is increasing and their aim is to violate civil order in this situation your personal safety can be under threat we strongly recommend you to warn your underage children other relatives and acquaintances from participating in the unauthorized events but alexina valmy supporters braved the subzero temperatures to have this a movie of these ones pushed out by police 5 themselves on 2 frozen waters in

vladivostok. justice just what i'm seeing now is some kind of inadequate reaction people were coming out peacefully they were not doing anything illegal now there is intimidation but as you can see no one is afraid of the city square is completely blocked off by police but there is someone there from the protesters and there are arrests there are many people this time but police and special forces have prepared in advance and blocked the square was the kremlin seems to have been rattled by this latest wave of protests. and i haven't heard about her and have adopted a 0 tolerance approach i was even putting pressure on online platforms to shut down any talk of demonstrations i was involved he says he's poisoning in august last year was state sanctioned something the kremlin has denied. the opposition leader and critic of president vladimir putin spent months in germany recovering was this

movement is more than just support from novell me. it's been a mobilizing call for those for straight to do everything from the economy to longstanding claims of corruption novell needs supporters have used social media to spread his views and to organize protests. there have been thousands of arrests across russia and with just days to go before novelli appears in court to face charges of parole violations the kremlin is keen to shut down and discredit him and he supporters. al-jazeera. a look at the very latest situation in moscow right now alexandra go study by 1st then alexander understand the situation is calming down a little bit is going home but there have been thousands of arrests. well yes indeed here in moscow the organizers announced that that is it for today that they made their point by managing to reach the detention center where now vitally has been held the but that didn't come easy today 1st of all the

original point where the protesters were supposed to gather was completely sealed off the whole center of moscow the heart of moscow was sealed off with buses not running metro not stopping so they started together at the reserve points and these points were changing in an hour because every time they would start together in coming out on the streets then police would immediately detain people and finally they managed to gather these thought this is where all of the 3 were railway stations there was a significant group of people several 1000 people and they had their protests they managed to come to this detention center and on the way police was chasing after them together with their detention vans the paddy vans and kept on feeling them in now there is almost no protesters left here but still police is patrolling in there . and say the remaining ones so this is still going on and will be

going on for some time we have reports that they're also going into small alleys in the vicinity and trying to detain people that they participated in this protest or the people that indeed our work chanting against putting like. are and can go away and russia will be free or he's going to leave that it's on target for the in moscow. now hundreds of people have been arrested in belgians capital where crowds are demonstrating against coronavirus restrictions they are frustrated with the country's tough luck and it's not time curfew the government has also imposed a ban on nonessential travel to and from belgium. and in the netherlands crowds have gathered to demonstrate against a curfew it went into effect last week sparking riots it is the worst civil unrest

netherlands has faced for decades and the 1st curfew since the 2nd world war that speaks to us joining us live now from upside down assistant what is the latest with the protest now. well have police is now clearing this area here at the rex museum and i'm certain i'm some new throwing out fire practice add them to where some skirmishes before there was a group of 4 around 230 so protesters here at the square behind me but they chose left police has been ordering people to leave from the start of the rally they said it's an authorized rally there's an emergency decree to here in place so police out there also violating the corona mattias they're not keeping their distance so they have to leave this area there is riot police lined up behind me sort of moving towards the left over protesters here at the square right now the same feel to us

area of some really serious battles with police in the last couple of weeks there were thousands of people here clashing with police fire water cannons were used at the moment it's still a lot more peaceful than it was in a previous week but as we are speaking the infantry ration is developing yeah it was approaches the confines of the netherlands and elsewhere in europe to say we want our freedom back. exactly that there firecrackers are out me everywhere now and russell saw hundreds of protesters who were detained because they were also planning to rally against the corona mattias but also the. strength of the police restraint since it was a very loud fire fireworks going off right here right now police is closing in on acid. wow so i need to probably move a little bit forward while i'm speaking there's also been

a rally would have passed in vienna and i was a rally announcement that was cancelled there were far right groups and rallies yes while we're hearing a lot more firecrackers i can. show you what's going on here so please as closing in on this area right now. everyone is sort of trying to disappear this police on horses here behind me yes while moving in that's a very common side during a rally and then adams police is using horses. well most of the people were not willing to fight with police today so they left the area already it is just a few small groups still left here. shouting they have no freedom dictatorship in the netherlands that kind of stuff people have gone grown really fed up with the corona mattias poles in belgium have sad that only 40 percent are still supporting these measures while that was saffron de san before so it is an increasing

restrictions curfews go in on has really led to a lot of the disapproval of government measures. that will leave with a little let us get away from that situation the time being we. move from you a little bit later as things develop. well south africa's tourism sector has been hit hard by covert 1000 not that it is a vital industry for the economy particularly cater for businesses across the city now struggling to stay open open items has been. kept on has 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 with tourism in the cape but visitor numbers are down by as much as 90 percent study locked down legalization to include night time curfews and a ban on alcohol sales beaches are off limits to all of

a snaps posted to social media nowadays include some interesting visit to the police law enforcement and the national army who put all the shoreline we have gone down prices have gone up and people are suffering at the moment they are having difficulty surviving lots of business is. closed down if they're not already closed down the family originally from bulgaria has been struggling to make ends meet. despite the biggest client numbers has been daniels to a company which he started in 2007 has not. i used to here for 19 now i have only one. income from march last year. in long street the heartbeat of guy turns into payments seem they are for sale and too late signs even when. people get to the street no one can know it can find

a job. it. can get maybe one maybe 100. on an ordinary day it would be difficult to find a parking spot here a beach front but then i had one of those an ordinary day in the early a year businesses on the famed suffering ordinarily on that side of the main though . it would be lined with informal traders selling their ways mainly african. only a handful of the. notorious even the best to close the days with. just maybe you can get given 20 times. it's very difficult because of. so what's the way forward how will we cover these are questions we put to the local government who look at the industry is all it's really an important. contributes round about $1200000000.00 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 you stabilize that what is

a landscape by making as much relief available to add to it as a hospitality industry and that could be for example reclassification of your property if you've got a tourism business property back to a presidential category and that could really reduce right suppose we've also implemented a piece of the missions for people dream to building from we're going to support it so that we can just you know give people the financial relief at this point in time while many of coffee losses and closed up shop people like daniel. 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. let's return to the netherlands to step back from his name saddam we've been talking a little bit earlier police breaking up protests there against the 1000 restrictions

and step out things now. the riot police is said clearing this whole area now right in front of. around $200.00 gathering out to protest against the curfew and corona restrictions. here with dogs on horses also carrying water cannon so most of the protesters had left already but as a small group of people were using a firecracker says throwing stones have kept police there sort of in the small alleys behind me now and the riot police is moving in there as well with this weapon water cannon trying to clear this whole area this is a very central area in the heart of am so that and this right hundreds of police here behind me you can see. they're moving in on to small batches of protesters here with dogs and also there's

a whole line of police on horses as well are all the protesters the 'd concern is specifically about the restrictions and the curfew the only going curfew or the purchases with other interests are. not at all against the growing of matches but this is a very mixed group combined of people who are actually really thinking in conspiracy said the very thing for so q unarmed people but also people supported by extreme right idea but also really have people who are suffering from the corona matches shops have been closing the nat'l and schools have been closed for a long time now so people are really sincerely suffering from these frustrations and they're all saying they're lost their freedom of course starts people very much attached to their freedom and this is a situation that i haven't been in since world war 2 so that's why it's just irritation and growing anger towards the government people also blame the

government for acting too late to being too indecisive on the whole corona and that makes and that's why they are really getting more and more furious and and frustrated for a step a real sense of the tensions on the streets in amsterdam old you of course as you say to these restrictions to us in the netherlands thanks very much indeed. let's take the song we can speak now talks on a page jack who is a senior lecturer in global health advisory university college london school of pharmacy joins us now from london oksana thank you for your time here interesting to see what's going on the netherlands and elsewhere of course motions are running high and you can get a sense of how concerned all thirty's are about people reacting to these covert restrictions people understandably fed up but realistically what other options are they restrictions are the only way to go. yes we have seen where the appropriate restrictions combined with other measures such as an attack to test and train

system has lets you. a freedoms being returned and there are many examples within south korea gets high on. your hands who are all enjoying their freedoms once again and have protected their borders through a measure of success is so by criticizing in these protests these protesters are just shooting themselves in the crotch essentially because they're contributing to an ongoing spread a particularly. high i also like to probably highlight that although there are people who disagree with the government are say this is not the majority of the public recently the u.k. pasta very tragic miles to air in over 100000 deaths with the highest death through capita in europe and 109 worlds so certainly i think there is that sense

of loss and responsibility that if we continue to make the sacrifice this we have a very successful x. nation here again that is occurring alongside this and that we can look to other countries that have stabilized the situation solving is 0 cope better maximum suppression strategy and i think if we keep that as something to work towards that goal can keep people united at this very difficult time that as we look at those images of riot police on the streets of ms extraordinary thing is that this is a reaction to a pandemic is there a sense that governments have put themselves into this position of having to to quell of a furious population will elements for fear of population certainly because of bad decisions made in dealing with the pandemic. i think that's part of i think it's also opportunistic i think we see that this virus itself has become politicized and

not the appropriate strategies people who are supporting lock down versus the anti lockdown has also given a stand with particular ideologies and that has absolutely confounded the response and i don't think that everyone fits into that category but i think it has fueled some of the aggression that we have seen in these protests that are occurring certainly it has not been easy but i think that reporting on the successes that we're seeing so far including the statistics on a vaccination rates alongside the very sad statistics of deaths and cases can also really reinforce that this will have an end date it's going to take us sometimes to get there but we can if we have better measures you can and in europe around we're all we can probably get there sooner asked for being frustrated with mistakes in the past what we have to do is look forward and learn from them so that people can

you know less sense that slowly we're facing into the new normal and the back and forth elements again in the u.k. 3rd lockdowns certainly doesn't help and looking into how these decisions were delayed for so long certainly should be looked at in more detail and look looking at. even the world health organization requiring reforms to ensure that we have ready to go systems who are alerting. not only member states but also ensuring that there is that financial resources so that people who feel supported throughout all this because a lot of the anger too is coming from a place where people aren't receiving enough financial support as well as russell health alums other assets like the new york there are certainly they didn't get everything right but they do ensure that people who are isolating are checked up on

that someone is calling daily to ensure that they have what they need the rear the help arrange groceries for the community it has to be down to that detail and the language we use is just as powerful so separate for instance the tax rate we could say virus tracing sort of isolation we can call protection where it's clear that we are not only at were protecting ourselves and the community been exposed so i think it's a right of our time that rocky wanted to make when we have accepted now but i do appreciate your perspective in your expertise in this thanks very much indeed alex on a project that thank you thank you. us. now former u.s. president donald trump is part of ways with his lead impeachment lawyer as little more than a week before his trial that's according to u.s. media it's now clear who will represent trump during the trial he's accused of

inciting the siege at the capitol building and earlier this month after he repeated false claims of election fraud let's now speak to gabriel is on but he joins us from washington d.c. so gary what's happened there they walked out on him as he fought the. we're not quite sure but what we're hearing from a trump associate is that it was a parting of ways was done in his words mutually so however you want to read into that the bottom line is that his entire legal team not only his main defense lawyer but also 4 other lawyers who were part of the team are now no longer working for him and this all comes as you mentioned a little over a week until this important senate trial is supposed to begin and actually this coming tuesday is when trump is supposed to give a letter to the senate responding to the accusations by the house of representatives that he incited this insurrection that led to his impeachment in the house of representatives so there's

a lot going on right now in this coming week and now bottom line is nobody knows who is going to be representing donald trump at the at the senate trial at this point it's anybody's guess now it does appear that the chances of a conviction in a senate trial are slim and the reason most people believe that is because it would take 2 thirds of the senate to convict donald trump and that would mean they would need all the democrats which they're probably going to get but they'd also need 17 republican senators as well and as of right now only 5 has have indicated that they would be open to potentially convicting trump so it appears unlikely at this stage that he's on the path to being convicted but of course anything can happen here in washington and it doesn't really matter in some ways because there's a lot at stake anyway because no matter what happens with the senate conviction or not whatever happens there the senate can still vote. in the coming weeks to

bar trump from ever running for office again and that would take only a simple majority in the senate that's important because there's certainly a lot of people that are still believing that perhaps donald trump could be thinking about maybe running for president again 4 years from now but bottom line. we got to get through this trial and right now looks like trump does not have a legal team that's going to be representing him at least not right now given that these 5 lawyers have now stepped aside there i gave thanks for that good rivers on there in washington d.c. some of such a close look at those numbers it's likely to be acquitted again well on tuesday total of $45.00 out of 50 senate republicans voted to consider stopping the trial before it even begins on the week starting they argue a president cannot face impeachment trials once they have left office and 70 republican senators need to break rank and very long side the 50 democrats for trying to be convicted and that potentially prevents him from ever running for

office again let's speak to bruce fein who's a former u.s. associate deputy attorney general joins us now from washington d.c. mr fine thanks for joining us here on al-jazeera we'll come to those numbers in a 2nd but 1st trumpet as lawyers what do you think is behind the parting of the ways i think the explanation is rather straightforward. mr trump wanted to lawyers to regurgitate the discredited view that the election was stolen from him by massive electoral fraud by democrats. that allegation has been discredited in over 60 court cases by his former attorney general william barr by his cybersecurity chief by democrats and republicans all around the country who occupy positions in state legislators and governorships it has gotten no traction in the u.s. supreme court and the lawyers basically said we cannot make such

a representation of massive electoral fraud when we have no good faith belief that it's true indeed it's precisely that misrepresentation that caused me and several others to write a letter to the new york bar association only last week asking that an investigation be opened to disbar mr giuliani because as a matter of legal ethics you are forbidden from advancing a legal or factual claim that you have not a credible basis for believing is accurate and that is why i don't believe mr trump will be able to attract any substitutes there is no lawyer given the threat of professional sanction who is willing to continue at this stage after all the time that is lapsed all the investigations producing nothing who is willing to stand up and echo mr trump's lie that there was massive electoral fraud and i don't think he

will be represented at the trial but surely a stolen election even if he could prove it which he obviously can't that still wouldn't be a defense for inciting it and for rabble rousing would it. no it's not and that's why i think the lawyers quit they thought that their argument would be he really didn't incite the crowd they came there with a pre organized plan to storm the capitol he really didn't it anything to their their conspiracy to sedition and insurrection that's what a normal lawyer would do but he is still fixated on the fact that you know he was a loser he lost a job by joe biden's no george washington and that is why his defense are actually correct is really not a defense to the accusation but i think what he is relying upon is that even though republicans in the senate believe he's guilty as charged that there is no jurisdiction and no vote to acquit not because they'll say he didn't do something

wrong but because you can't impeach and convict someone who's out of office now that's contrary to what happened in 876 with a former secretary of war held in belknap who was impeached and had a senate trial after he resigned but even in that case there are many senators who voted to acquit him from the charge of bribery saying it's not that he didn't accept a bribe but we don't have jurisdiction here right i do want to make one correction of your previous commentator and that suggesting that the senate by a simple majority could bar mr trump from holding office in the future that's not accurate they can only impose that sanction if they find him guilty of an impeachable offense that requires a 67 votes threshold ok and so on that point the conviction in the senate do you think it is feasible given that at the moment the numbers don't seem to favor. right now i think it's very unlikely because i think that the republicans think they have an escape hatch to argue we're not condoning what he did but we have no

jurisdiction let's leave it to the criminal law to determine now he's out of office can be prosecuted whether what he did you know violated the prohibitions on insurrection and i said it is conspiracy and that's why it'll give them that cover when they confront their constituents and say my gosh if an attempt falsely to by force and violence overturn an election by preventing the vice president from counting electoral votes is not an impeachable offense what is you know it's kind of gave a lady get you imagine what that precedent would set for any future occupant of office basically condoning constitutional law listeners to prevent the functioning of self government but they'll carry that by saying well we just didn't have jurisdiction we're not condoning what he did and that's why i don't think they'll be 17 republicans in the senate to vote for a conviction probably seattle pounds out in

a day's time for his fine. thank you now all my soul mates are troops will reportedly remain in afghanistan beyond may despite a deal between the united states and the taliban to draw down numbers seem to nato officials have told reuters that deals conditions have not been met with a ton of i'm playing for a spike in violence the report suggests u.s. troops who make up the bulk of the nato mission will therefore stay the u.s. has not commented yet on the report by the ministration has previously said it's reviewing the taliban agreement. well nato in washington will have a challenge getting the taliban to agree to an extension beyond made there's concern that if the situation remains unclear the taliban may increase attacks u.s. downsized its troops in afghanistan to 2500 just days before former president donald trump left office reaching a 19 year low and the american forces work alongside nato allies and partners all

together the nato military alliance has 10000 troops in afghanistan from 38 countries including germany u.k. italy georgia and turkey. from out of our top stories this hour and there is a heavy presence of police on the streets perhaps that i am officers are forcefully breaking up protestors demonstrating creates a cave in 1000 curfew it went into effect last week sparking writes hundreds have been arrested nationwide it is the worst civil unrest the netherlands has faced in 4 decades. hundreds have been arrested in belgians capital during antilock dam protests crowds are rallying against the country's tough restrictions in its 9 pm curfew a ban on nonessential travel to and from belgium was also introduced on wednesday. europe's covert $1000.00 batting shortage will be top of the gender in a virtual meeting between the european commission president and pharmaceutical

companies c.e.o. is it comes after a battle with astra zeneca over a vaccine supplies he used then impose controls on the export of vaccines produced in the block this week to natasha butler who's in paris and joins us live senator actually this is comes amid a lot of controversy over vaccine supply what's this conference all about. yes and well the e.u. commission hasn't really released much information about what will be going on between the e.u. commission head of wonderland and of the bosses of 7 pharmaceutical companies the c.e.o.'s of 75 pharmaceutical companies. and astra zeneca as you say this meeting coming at a time when the relationship between the e.u. and some of these companies has been particularly fraught over the fact that some of those companies including pfizer midden and astra zeneca say that there may be some problems or challenges with the delivery of some doses that the e.u.

was expecting that route really blew up over the last days between the e.u. and the british swedish firm astra zeneca because astra zeneca said that there could be a reduction in the amount of doses it will be able to deliver to the european union by some 60 percent in the 1st quarter this year well the e.u. has been absolutely furious over that they have said that this is a breach of contract also the e.u. seems to suggest or allege that perhaps some of the doses of this vaccine that are being produced in factories in the european union in belgium and in germany are actually making their way to the u.k. instead of remaining in the e.u. that is why the e.u. decided to put on more strictures more controls at the end of last week on exports of vaccines to make sure that these vaccines weren't perhaps leaving new territory the e.u. also tried to trigger an emergency clause in the gregs it deal

a part of this this part of this clamp down on exports that infuriated many on both sides the channel in the u.k. and some of the you saying that this was actually completely unnecessary the e.u. then withdrew their response to that they have left in place the restrictions the point is what the 1st of one delay in the e.u. commission head will want to do with this. meeting is to try and question these companies on their delivery commitments will they be able to live up to them what can the e.u. expect and of course you'll be making it very clear that the e.u. is disappointed that some of these days says will take so long to reach that you when it commitments already be made there are no such things like the paris israel will transfer 5000 vaccine doses to palestinian medical workers according to a government spokesperson the country has drawn sharp criticism for excluding palestine's occupied territories from its speedy vaccine rola bola

a quarter of israel's 9000000 population has received at least one dose of the pfizer job palestine has had to rely mostly on its own vaccine vaccine procurement as well as the un's kovacs scheme for developing nations germany's military is 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 being sent to portuguese islands including madeira portugal has the highest 7 day average of infections and death per capita globally well regarded but it is in charge of public health at the catholic university of portugal and he says cases are beginning to fall for 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 the 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 intersecting 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 going 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 we're basically at 850 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. public gatherings and curfew restrictions being extended by 2 weeks in south korea the decision follows a covert 19 up break in missionary schools last week which caused a spike in infections strictly distancing measures have been in place since early december and will continue until the end of the upcoming lunar new year holidays.

peru is beginning a strict lockdown for the 2nd time in 10 months to try and ease pressure on its overwhelmed hospitals a shortage of oxygen is forcing hundreds of people to look for it on the black market they've been queuing up for days and sleeping in tents to try and secure supplies will last until mid february. brazil's neighbors are imposing new restrictions on travel to and from latin america's largest country its concern about a new coronavirus variant spreads across region fighting rollouts provides some hope but officials warn there's still a long way to go before the end of the pandemic. as this. thank you rare piece of good news amongst the coronavirus misery bolivia's 1st like the nation a nurse in the country's hearted eastern city of santa cruz and messy end of the mess in the end 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 spot 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 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 a new lockdown has been imposed in the capital or borders remain closed trapping these migrants mostly from haiti but also cuba and africa their ultimate

destination is united states lab and this year on the request they have made is to be allowed entry into panama that is not possible because there is a presidential order to close the borders as a precautionary measure but in addition panama has all of its borders closed. ghana has closed its long border with brazil barbados has announced a lockdown while canada has closed air traffic from the caribbean and mexico until april in mexico the president went before the cameras to say he's recovering from the virus and to announce the purchase of vaccines. i still have come of it but the doctors tell 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

a need the us to brazil a situation made worse by oxygen shortages in the capital despite that foreign tourists taking advantage of mexico's more relaxed travel restrictions continue to flock to the beaches the coronavirus. some of us are family already 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 that. one osiris india's prime minister is standing firm on the government's plans to go ahead with controversial new laws that farmers say will ruin their livelihoods but in the remote he says an offer to delay them is on the table and the 1st time he's publicly addressed the ongoing protests against reforms some of the demonstrations have turned violent also described the violence that erupted during a rally on republic day as an insult to the country one person died and dozens more

were injured delimit the country was saddened by the insult to the indian flag on the 26th of january in delhi we have to fill the future with new hope and novelty. protesters angry over a fatal far to remain in hospital calling for the president's health minister and police chief to resign hundreds attended a rally outside the health ministry on saturday at least 5 people died in the place of the math eyebolts hospital in bucharest on friday it's the country's main hospital for coronavirus patients and it was a 3rd hospital far in remaining and as many months ago has this report. these charred window frames some of what's left of hospital after a fire swept through and fire crews what through the night to put out the flames remove the basket from the onset of money and 1st 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 3 for more than that i am glad he backed off to 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 won the resignation of those responsible if things don't change radically. remain as president to promise to get justice for the victims see thought. 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 romania's health system had been criticised over inefficiency and politicised management this latest fire is certain to put the government under more pressure to reform it barbara and al-jazeera. the pandemic has forced the postponement or consolation of many film festivals around the world but some have taken creative steps gothenburg film festival in sweden has held a contest giving one person the chance to see all 60 films on the programme from a remote location hilary's 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 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 would shudder and we want to take it further and take it to extreme. the winning applicant is emergency nurse lisa and her author who's been on the front lines of sweden's battle with covert 19 i'm

looking forward just to be able to reflect a bit about what happened this year and not be anxious infecting other people i've been meeting and a lot of covert 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. the focus 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 theaters and into the home began a long time ago going to the movies in the company of strangers make it more appealing again once the pandemic finally ends. al-jazeera come there where sweden

. still ahead here in al-jazeera for coming up not for the 1st time in his career patrick reed is involved in a controversy over the rules of golf peter will explain coming up next. since its inception in 1961 the kuwait fund has been supporting people's livelihoods in over 100 countries by funding projects in an array of sectors. ranging from infrastructure to health and education. these initiatives ultimately help to eradicate poverty. and promote sustainable development. frank assessments you've got colleagues on the ground in the canaries what is the situation there is only one doctor and one nurse or $2200.00 people informed opinions how big does foreign policy figure in the early stages of

a bind he comes into office with a huge about foreign policy experience in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines how will a place like it live get the vaccine when there's no money and all the rest of rich countries are fighting for an inside story on al-jazeera. you'll fall off. that's a glimmer of hope in the campaign to save the northern white rhinoceros from extinction 2 more embryos have been successfully created bringing the total number to 5 reports many challenges remain before cough can be born scientists in kenya it's

only in germany have for years been tirelessly working together to save the northern white rhino from extinction but its 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 the highest number of you ever got from a rhino and we were extremely happy about that outcome and on christmas eve 2 embryos for photos and stories that we're really at another 2 and boost to our already existing scare him best. 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 star get mother a southern white rhino after roaming in the wild for millions of years the last

remaining northern white male named sedan died in 2018 scientists saved his sperm and used it to fertilize the eggs of his granddaughter fatty but neither fast 2 nor her mother knows gene can carry a cough and this is where the southern white rhino comes in we already had quite a few war a little war with using southern white embryos for each other less richer than the northern why as a tool to understand and to develop the procedures so far out of 2 or 3 hours for 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 then the next to see years but right now we can't believe doctors and ultimately no embryos 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 right in 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 born from this process would even survive. at al-jazeera. ok let's get on to the sport now is pretty make thank you so much reverend the bell says he's worried that a 2 week quarantine ahead of the tokyo lympics would put off tennis players who might otherwise compete the world number 2 who's just finished quarantine ahead of the australian open says it would be tough to squeeze in the period of self isolation in japan ahead of the games in what is already a packed room and should do the tokyo games were delayed for

a year because of the coronavirus pandemic are expected to begin in july what's going to happen in in tokyo for the olympics if the olympics going to happen or not or if we have to do so and then before the olympics for 15 days or not seems like sports perspective seems very difficult combining our daughter with an ar 15 to play olympics looks difficult to fix it in our calendar but as i say we're going to do what the people who knows about or knows about protecting. the people in every single county. are going to just follow the directions hasn't yet been confirmed whether or not athletes competing in tokyo would need to quarantine but not everyone feels like nobel having just self isolated 14 days ahead of the australian open u.s. open champion soccer says she'd do it all again for the olympics. the way that i

feel is like i will stay in my room for 2 weeks to put on pics 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 now through the biggest game in south american club football and there was very late drama in the final because a limited audience the 2 brazilian team sent off and palmer us were playing in a largely empty american our stadium in rio only $5000.00 special guests were allowed inside subject of a negative curved line to taste it with no goals until the 99th minute when substitute brenna lopez scored the winner for palmeiro us it was their 1st effort on saw good 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 with upon us players so they coach farah only join the club in november living apart from his family who are back in his native portugal. to stay used to post is one thing that it costs a lot to be a good coach it hurts because i can't have both worlds professional and family on 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 polaris team on their return home the huge crowds ignoring social distancing rules in a country where more than 220000 people have died from the corona virus 2nd only to the united states and less than one percent of the population has been vaccinated. palmeiras will now head to qatar for the club world cup a tournament for all the continental champions which starts next week european

champions by munich will be competing to they won the latest match in germany's going to sleep for one against often haim and no surprise to see robert level of ski among the scorers it keeps them well clear 7 points ahead at the top of the table over in england manchester united striker marcus rash word has spoken out so after being racially abused on social media following their goalless draw with arsenal 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 beautiful children of all colors following me and they don't need to read it beautiful colors it should only be celebrated. 43 year old english golf ball casey says he feels like he's regained his youth after winning the dubai desert classic k.c. chipped in for a birdie here the 4th one of 5 innings 2 under par final round he finished on 17 under overall 4 shots clear of south africa's brandon stone it's casey's 15th title

on the european tour and it piskies hopes of qualifying for europe's ryder cup team for this year's contest in september. over on the p.g.a. tour and not for the 1st saw many is career goal for patrick readers caught up in a rules controversy this time at the farmers insurance open a torrey pines in san diego he hit his ball into the rough at the 10th hole but was embedded so i 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 is called the controversy reid went on to save paul and has a share of the tournament lead heading into the final day in 2019 he was penalized 3 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. when

we're out there and we're plying we can't we can't see everything that's why you rely on the other players or 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 and you go on. in the n.b.a. le bron james and the current champions los angeles lakers have stayed in search for the top teams in the western conference thanks to a narrow win on saturday the lakers were up against the boston celtics who are 5th in the east l.a. had suffered 2 defeats in their last 2 games to philadelphia and then detroit but on this occasion they would get the upper hand after anthony davis scoring 27 points sans los angeles 196954 their 15th when of the season the 3rd in the west. that's where we'll leave it for now more sports news later nick pretty well look for today thanks for the time we thank you very much indeed that is it for this news hour i will be back here in a couple of minutes with another half hour of news perhaps we'll see you then barbara.

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russia will be free demonstrators ignore police warnings and march to demand the release of the opposition leader. this is out 0 live from doha also coming up in the program a wave of anger sweeps through parts of europe protesters fed up with they've had 19 restrictions.