the search for suitable has been and continues can both their dreams come true almost one overcome the other. deadline part of the viewfinder series on al-jazeera . chanting russia will be free demonstrators ignore police warnings and march to demand the release of the opposition leader alexina valmy. this is observer live from doha also coming up in the program a wave of anger sweeps through parts of europe protesters fed up with covert 19 restrictions. and don't have income from march of last year

we hear from south african struggling to make a living because of the coronavirus and. the whole trouble reportedly parted ways with his key lawyers 8 days before his impeachment trial take a look at what this means for his defense. so we begin in russia where heavily armed police have rounded up protesters who came out in defiance of government orders to stay at home demanding the release of jailed opposition politician alexina valmy activists say more than 4000 people have been arrested as this report. you don't have to stay longer to demonstration in russia before you might be arrested. police wasting no time in taking ward says that's still slow there 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 but alexina valmy supporters braved the subzero temperatures to have this a movie of these ones pushed out by police fire themselves onto frozen waters in vladivostok. justice just remember that 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 but there aren't 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 of her and have adopted a 0 tolerance approach to of even putting pressure on online platforms to shut down

any talk of demonstrations 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 development supporters have used social media to spread he's 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 aside big al jazeera what i've got for i was among the protesters in moscow. 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 not vialli has been held but that didn't come easy today 1st of all the original point where the testers were supposed to gather was completely sealed off the whole center of moscow the heart of moscow was sealed off with buses not running mats were not stopping so they started to gather in 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 together and this was. where all of the 3 were railway stations there was a significant group of people several 1000 people and they had their protests will they managed to come to this detention center and on the way police was chasing after them together with their detention vans the bad events and kept on feeling them in now there is almost no protesters left here but still police is patrolling

in their empty riot gear and saying that 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 brought us or the people that indeed our work chanting against putting. hundreds of people have been arrested in belgium is comparable where crawled to demonstrating against coronavirus restrictions frustrated with the country's tough lockdown and it's not time curfew the government is also opposed to the central travel to and from building. police in the netherlands have dispersed crowds gathering to demonstrate against a curfew it went into effect most we can run a 100 to be arrested nationwide it is the worst civil unrest the netherlands has

faced through for decades and the 1st curfew since the 2nd world war. is in the netherlands where protesters say they want their freedom back the riot police is clearing this whole area now right in front of museum where a group of around $200.00 protesters were gathering out to protest against the curfew and corona restrictions police is here with dogs on horses also carrying water cannons most of the protesters had left already but it's a small group of people who are using a firecracker says throwing stones at them police there sort of in the small alleys behind me now and the riot police is moving in there as well with this white 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. europe's covered 19 vaccine shortages top of the gender of her virtual bt between the european commission president and pharmaceutical company c.e.o.'s it comes off a battle with astra zeneca riverfront seen supplies the e.u. then impose controls on the export of vaccines produced in the blog has the latest now from paris. 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 you territory the e.u. also tried to trigger an emergency clause in the briggs it deal 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 wanderlei and 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 doses will take so long to reach the e.u.

when the commitments already been made. south africa's tourism sector has been hit hard with 1000 locked down it is a vital industry for the economy particularly in cape town but businesses across the city are now struggling to stay open has been finding out more. term has always been a dream destination for travelers around the world the list of must see it tractions is endless. december and january a peak periods for tourism in the cape but visitor numbers are down by as much as 90 percent stick locked down to include night time curfews and a ban on alcohol sales beaches are off limits to 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

businesses are adding close down if they're not already closed down the w. no family originally from bulgaria has been struggling to make ends meet. despite the biggest 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. income from march of last year. just. in longstreet the heartbeat of guy turns into payment seem they are for sale and to let signs even. 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 at beachfront but then i had one of those an ordinary day in

the alley a year business is on the face of suffering ordinary and that's. that 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 best they close their base some days. just maybe you can get different results for survival it's 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 us 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 to do what is on the landscape by making as much relief available to add to it as a and hospitality industry and that could be for example the reclassification of your property if you've got a tourism business property back to raise

a dangerous category and that could really reduce right spalls we've also implemented piece of the missions for people trying to land or building from leaving us about it so that we can just you know give people that financial relief at this point in time while many of cut the losses and closed up shop people like daniel amy. jack and the estimated 75000 of his was jobs like the risk in the midst who came if no choice but to live out the storm . items al-jazeera. still ahead here on out 0 the cloud of uncertainty in maine mars the newly elected parliament has to meet for the 1st time . we look at how the nigerian government plans to revamp 3 of its oil refineries after years of mismanagement and corruption. and. it's time for the perfect gentleman.

sponsored plan qatar airways the supply of code 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 valley of austar the cold will tuck back in again and we're going to go subzero again when she gets that snow in homs shoe were reached tokyo i don't think than the sun is rather more prevalent in china saul's down to minus 3 will not get me cold if anything just slightly less cold in the next 3 days it's still breezy but it's now at night on wednesday otherwise probably fine. the showers spread throughout malaysia in these you're are missing this process southeast asia a lot they're focusing further south mostly indonesia mostly sort of ways it was

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again you're watching al-jazeera one of our top stories this hour and activists say more than 4000 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 opposition politician alexina valmy. police of forcefully breaking up protesters in amsterdam demonstrating against a coup for 1000 curfew it went into effect last week sparking riots hundreds have been arrested nationwide. and hundreds have been arrested in belgians capital cheering and she looked on protest crowds a rally against the country's tough restrictions and its 9 pm curfew a ban on non-essential travel to and from belgium it was also introduced and that

was on wednesday. germany's military sending medical staff and equipment to portugal is 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 and 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 more than 12000 people have died from the corona virus so far a record of late is in charge of public health at the catholic university of portugal and 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 if you

go on beyond the hospital beds that we have a 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 depict we 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. protests in the lebanese city of tripoli continuing despite a standoff with security forces on saturday anger against the government's coronavirus restrictions attracted support from a group in the capital dozens from beirut joined a convoy heading to tripoli in solidarity with calls against a country to tear it to economic crisis many are angry about a strict lockdown without provision for any financial relief at least 2 people have

been killed since the rally started and hundreds more injured. a car bomb has killed at least 6 people in the syrian town of as as north of aleppo dozens more have been left injured after the explosion near a market there wanted to claim responsibility for the attack which has in the southern turkish city of kilis been controlled by pro turkish backed rebels since a 2016 operation to drive out i saw in the region another car bomb about 20 kilometers away in africa killed 8 people on saturday 3 people have been killed after a car bomb exploded in the somali capital of mogadishu your hotel frequented by government officials where this is on the scene say they heard heavy gunfire after an initial explosion that armed men were seen entering the hotel the rebel group al-shabaab has claimed responsibility for the. former u.s. president donald trump has parted ways with his lead impeachment lloyd still more

than a week before his trial that's according to u.s. media is now unclear who will represent trump during the trial he's accused of inciting the siege at the capitol building earlier this month after he repeated false claims of election fraud his aides say they plan to argue that the trial is unconstitutional because he's no longer in office carol elizondo is in washington d.c. and says that democrats are unlikely to find enough republican support to convict trump. 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'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 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. 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 near and remote he says an offer to delay them is on the table it is the 1st time he's publicly addressed the ongoing protests against reforms some of the demonstrations turned violent movie also describe the violence that erupted during a rally on republic day as an insult to the country one person died dozens more were injured the limit 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 of all muslims who will not agree under pressure or make any conditional agreements or compromise we will talk about all the issues the prime minister has initiated talks and he should mediate and he should not talk about the government is the prime minister of the farmers he is my prime minister as well i have also voted for him we will talk and there would be a respectable agreement he's given

a call so we will respect there. were journalists in india protesting against the arrest of their colleague who was detained while covering from a protest on saturday when people who know was reporting on the rallies that the border where tens of thousands of families have protested against new aquaculture laws more than 2 months they want it withdrawn but the government says it's committed to modernizing the sector. the day ahead of the opening of a new parliament to mend their affairs for possible military coups that linger. and l d governments won november's elections by a landslide actions of electoral fraud protests and an increasing security presence of put the country in a state of uncertainty and a fall reports now from young gone. tension on the streets of myanmar this week as the country braces for a possible political crisis in the. 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 military chief minister lying stoked 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 the you see in the government that. you can't just ignore us we are the stakeholder we have. obligations we have the guardian to the course 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 but that 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 be 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. journalist mahmoud hussein has now been illegally detained in egypt for 1500 days without charge hussein was arrested while visiting family in december 2016 a number of human rights organizations have joined al jazeera in demanding his immediate release his detention is in fire lation of both gyptian and international law for much of the last 30 years africa's biggest oil producer that's nigeria has imported refined petroleum products because its old refineries are unable to produce enough and satisfy local to mount there's also been decades of mismanagement and corruption and now the government has begun a process of rehabilitating 3 of its refineries i would address reports from a picture. this is one of nigeria's government run or oil refineries in the city of

port. but most of the supplier a she has been shut down to a great equipment and facility. the government plans to hand over these money losing ventures to invest 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 to continue to operate well below capacity and sometimes shut down for months. say that cost to stop what we have done different now is to make sure that we know what we have been doing it's. funded 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 well working with. anybody.

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 go to 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 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 will have a lot of side what does with the jeep when just will be delivered and ultimately will come but will not get out become the public get into a sub because of vision of so much of that we're expecting any buzz from west africa just of doing some nigerians say they are cautiously optimistic a these. 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 at last to fully functional so i think they can be rejigged to the point where they wish to come back to do a functional ity in such a way that the big government of nigeria the peoples of nigeria still have the stake 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. dot com is the address all the news we're covering right there plenty of comment and analysis to al-jazeera dot com. so this is odds are these are the top stories and i say more than 4000 people have been arrested across russia as they 5 bands on protests this was the scene in st petersburg a short time ago where demonstrators were demanding the release of the jailed opposition politician and let's you know valley alexander got for us more now from . the organizers.