al jazeera. and. chanting russia will be free demonstrates to ignore police warnings and march to them on the release of the opposition need at alexina valmy. i make clothes out your night from doha also coming up a wave of anger sweep through parts of europe protest as a fed up with cave at 1000 restriction says. donald trump is reportedly parted ways

with his key defense lawyers 8 days before his impeachment trial begins. and will tell you how the nigerian government plans to revamp 3 of its oil refineries after years of mismanagement and corruption. so heavily armed police in russia have rounded up protesters who came out in defiance of government orders to stay at home the demanding the release of jailed opposition politician alexina found the activists say more than 4000 people have been arrested said bank has this report. for america you don't have to stay longer to demonstration in russia before you might be arrested right here of the. police wasting no time in taking these protesters away from the public heelys 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 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 of awestruck. 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 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 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. this movement is more than just support for. it's been a mobilizing call for those frustrated with everything from the economy to long standing claims of corruption. supporters have used social media to spread his views and to organize protests. thousands of russia and with just days to go before the appears in court to face charges of parole violations the kremlin is keen to shut down and discredit him and his supporters. al-jazeera. 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 nevada 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 together 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 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 are work chanting against putting. heavy presence of police on the streets of amsterdam offices have been forcefully breaking up protesters demonstrating against a covert 1000 curfew hundreds have been arrested nationwide and is in the netherlands where the protesters say they want their freedom back. the riot police is clearing this whole area now right in front of museums were 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 cannon so most of the protesters had left already but there'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 weapon water cannon trying to clear this whole area this is a very central area in the heart of am so that and this is 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. where hundreds of people have been arrested in belgium is capital where crowds are also demonstrating against coronavirus restrictions their frustration with the country's tough. time curfew the government has also imposed upon enormous central travel to and from belgium. is

a senior lecturer in global health at the university college london school of pharmacy and she says a pandemic has been used as a tool by various lobby groups to put a royal society. i think we see that this virus itself has become politicized and not to have the appropriate strategies people were supporting lock down hers and the lockdown has also been mixed in 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 i certainly it has not been easy but i think that reporting on the successes that we're seeing so far including this statistics are on a vaccination rates alongside the very sad it's of deaths and cases can also really reinforce that this will have an end date it's going to take us sometimes we

get there but we can if we have better measures particularly you care and in your around or we can probably get there sooner as for being frustrated with mistakes in the past what we have to do is look forward and learn from them so that people can yell a sense that slowly we're facing into a new normal germany's minute trees sending medical stuff and equipment to ports goodness of country deals with one of the world's worst coronavirus outbreaks health ministry data shows that only 7 intensive care beds left on the mainland of 850 some critically ill patients are being sent to portuguese islands including madeira school has the highest 7 day average of inspections and deaths per capita globally recorded but she said late is in charge of public health at the catholic university of political 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 2 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 which then leads to more people being admitted to hospital beds and then into ice you bet 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 start to see a true slowdown in a rise of new cases following the closing of schools and a more strict lockdown that was imposed 2 weeks before sadly though as we all know the lockdown measures tend to have a long delay between 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 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 $800.00 we're basically at $850.00 s. you beds just for kobe patients and might 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. europe discovered vaccine shortage will be top of the agenda at a virtual between the european commission president and pharmaceutical company c.e.o.'s it comes after a battle of the curve of vaccine supply would you then impose controls on the

export of vaccines produced in the blog that has the latest from parents. that were 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 fierce over that they have said that this is a breach of contract also the e.u. seems to suggest or alleged 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 work perhaps leaving you territory the

e.u. also tried to trigger an emergency clause in the brig's 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 be made. here in al-jazeera. i don't have income from march of last year we have from south african struggling to make a living because of the coronavirus pandemic. going solo these swedish film

festival offering one lucky movie buff the chance to watch films on an island alone for a week. is still remarkably quiet weather wise in the immediate future it is still blowing down the gulf so there has been very dusty recently temperature drop a little bit if you look up towards a live on beirut suffered 20 degrees the winds more or less coming out of the interior now in the summer this would mean if you can't halt and certainly warn up in beirut but we're not in the summer and look at this fairly strong breeze out of iraq indicating a development of clouds here in the north a society where the mask is forecast certainly looks breezy and then cheri viruses in a quick preview of thursday if it comes off this is is quite development through western

society through jordan or significant rain from a different direction i thought you might be interested otherwise it looks fairly far in quiet jumping size nothing like finding quote this is of course rainy summer at the moment there's a good line that stretches from the maybe a through botswana and then directly up towards the south of tanzania it has been quite cheri this rain coming out from the south for the western cape in the media fusions is sunday and by monday there could still be hanging around as the high temperatures have temporarily disappear but look at the eastern side of south africa multiplication of showers and big ones at that. frank assessments you've got colleagues on the ground in the canaries what is the situation there's only one doctor and one nurse or $1.00 to $200.00 people informed opinions how big does foreign policy they get in the early stages of

a bi ministration he comes into office with a huge amount of foreign policy experience in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines how will a place like it live get a back seat when there's no money and all the rest of rich countries are fighting for an inside story on al-jazeera. can i get you what she had 0 to remind 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 it's an petersburg demonstrators are demanding the release of jailed opposition politician alexina. as heavy presence of police

on the streets perhaps of officers are forcefully breaking up protestors to demonstrate against a covert 1000 curfew hundreds have been arrested nationwide. and hundreds have been arrested in belgians couple cheering and protest crowds are rallying against the country's tough restrictions of its 9 pm curfew a ban on nonessential travel to and from belgium was also introduced on wednesday. israel will transfer 5000 vaccine doses to palestinian medical workers that's according to a government spokesperson the country has drawn sharp criticism for excluding palestine's occupied territories from its speedy vaccine rollout more than a quarter of israel's 9000000 population has received at least one dose of the pfizer jab but occupied territories have had to rely mostly on the un's kovacs scheme for developing nations. so the africa's tourism sector has been hit hard by covert 1000 locked down it's a vital industry for the economy particularly in cape town businesses across the

city are now struggling to stay open when items has been trying to. turn 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 static 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 family originally from bulgaria has been struggling to make ends meet i mean. despite the

reduced client numbers husband daniels to a company which he started in 2007 has not. helped i used to here for 19 now i have only one. income from march of last year. just down in long street the heartbeat of guy turns into payments 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 early a year businesses on the famed suffering order. on that side of the main job it would be lined with informal traders selling their way is mainly african but only

a handful of them remain notorious even the base to close the 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 covered these are questions we put to the local government who look at the industry is all it's really an important sector for cape town that contributes around about one comma $2000000000.00 u.s. dollars to the city's economy and it creates around about $300000.00 direct and indirect jobs so far so priorities to make sure that you stabilize that 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 a very substantial category and that could really reduce right spalls we've also implemented these are the missions for people going to land or building from we're going to support it so that we can just you know give people that financial relief

at this point in time while many of cut the losses and closed up shop people like daniel amy. jack and the estimated 75000 of his was jobs a risk in the midst who came if no choice but to live out the storm. items al-jazeera . former u.s. president donald trump has parted ways with his lead impeachment lloyd's little more than a week before his trial that's according to u.s. media now unclear who will represent trump during the trial he's accused of inciting the siege at the capitol building early this month after he repeated false claims of election fraud so what would it take to convict well on tuesday a total of $45.00 out of 50 senate republicans voted to consider stopping the trial before it even begins on the week starting from previous. they argue a present cannot face impeachment trials once they've left office 17 republican

sentences need to break right and can votes alongside the 50 democrats for trying to be convicted and that potentially prevents them from ever running for office again carol elizondo is in washington d.c. and he says democrats on likely 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 you 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 house charged donald trump so that impeachment stands it's now just a question of will the senate convict him. a car bomb has killed at least 6 people in the syrian town of desires north of aleppo and dozens more have been left

injured after the explosion near a market no one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack is as is near the southern turkey city of kilis it's being controlled by pro turkish backed rebels since a 2016 operation to drive out high school in the region. 3 people have been killed after a car bomb exploded in the somali capital of mogadishu near a hotel frequented by government officials witnesses on the scene say they heard heavy gunfire after an initial explosion and the men were seen in through the hotel the rebel group has claimed responsibility for the attack protesters a feisty of police attempts to disperse crowds in the lebanese city of tripoli hundreds been rallying against the government's coronavirus restrictions many are angry about a strict lockdown amid the country's deteriorating economic crisis. 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 are a dramatic he says an offer to delay them is on the table it's the 1st time he's

publicly addressed the ongoing protests against the reforms some of the demonstrations turn violent and you also describe the violence that erupted during a rally on republic day as an insult to the country one person died and dozens more were injured. for much of the last 30 years africa's biggest oil producer that's nigeria has imported refined petroleum products because it's old refineries are unable to produce enough and satisfy local command has also been decades of mismanagement and corruption now the government has begun a process of rehabilitating 3 of its refineries amid interest from. this is one of nigeria's government run or oil 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 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 that will go back to that but that is funded such a way that you don't stick somebody delegate that project and that is well on cause finances don't go in for one of them while working with us to make sure that we. see what it will be funny that. 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 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 to when i get i will become the hub of it in the us i because of vision as a matter of fact that we're expecting any bus from west africa what are you just of

doing some nigerians say they are cautiously optimistic a this is not true fan. it's probably wrong. in spite of the age of the technologies that produced over 50 years ago the refineries of that age around the world are fully functional so i think they can be rejigged to the point where they wish to come back to the functionality in such a way that the 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 greece al-jazeera. al jazeera journalist moment hussein has now been illegally detained in egypt 1500 days without charge hussein was arrested while visiting family in december 2016

a number of human rights organizations have joined in demanding his immediate release. the pandemic has forced the cancellation of many film festivals around the world but some of taking creative steps the film festival in sweden has held a contest giving one person the chance to see all 60 films on the program from a remote location reports from the island where the winner is about to embark on a movie marathon. the show is struggling on at film festivals around the world still with plenty of films it's the festival part that's somewhat lacking. here at the gotham film festival they've managed to avoid going totally online while giving the pandemic itself a starring role. the festival has chosen one person out of 12000 applicants to spend a week on the island of how the where alone and the cut to get straight between the north sea and the baltic with nothing but films to keep them company it's

a different experience to watch the films under those circumstances when you're all by yourself in your home feels different to what the scene where for example there is a big party going on or where people are very touchy would shudder and we want to take it further and take it to extreme the winning applicant is emergency nurse lisa who has been on the front lines of sweden's battle with covert 19 i'm looking forward just to be able to reflect a bit about what happened this year and not be anxious infecting other people i've been meeting a lot of 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 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 scrape the surface of the sense of isolation felt by millions during the lockdowns of the past year cinemas journey away from theaters and into the home 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 . so this is our dessert these are the top stories and more than 4000 people have been arrested across russia as they defy bans on protests demonstrations are demanding the release of jailed opposition politician alexina valmy and it's on target for has more now from moscow the organizers announced that that is it for today that they made their point by managing to reach the detention center

where now has been held the but that didn't come easy today 1st of all the original point where the.