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income from march last year. we hear from south african struggling to make a living because of the coronavirus pandemic. donald trump is reportedly piloted ways with this key lawyers 8 days before his impeachment trial. with the sports had. $20.20 time grand slam champion found. that being forced to quarantine might stop tennis stars from competing at the take human impact. so the e.u. foreign policy chief has condemned russia for arresting thousands of protesters demanding the release of the jailed opposition leader alexina valley police rounded up protesters who came out in defiance of government orders to stay at home

activists say more than 4500 people have been detained on sunday a setback has this report. i think. 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. with 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 austin. 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 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 the valmy. 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 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 to shut down and discredit him and he supporters. al-jazeera. well of course one of the alexander got for was among the protesters in the russian capital and she says that police went to great lengths to keep people from gathering. 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 no violent 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 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 get to. 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 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 protest or the people that indeed are work chanting against putting well let's take this on we can discuss all this with alex tito lecturer in modern

european history at queen's university in belfast and joins us on skype welcome to the program thanks for joining us 1st up what's make up of these protests and how representative of all the sentiment against vladimir putin. well i think. first of all could do division between the capital cities most green st peter's book where we have some preliminary data by all the make up of the protests and they are younger that are bolts of the 2829 the median age that will educate its most of them have a high education war and boasts of getting one and this is the middle middle class middle class which kind of protesting against. which is rule but the book protests much wider in russia and there are some areas which i have to because industrial cities in particular in siberia in the euro which also protesting so they

make up a home you would expect the young educated you know plus in st peter's the protests about the protests but you much wider so that's kind of the problem for the kremlin at the moment that it's they can deal with middle classes ots in capitals it is but it's much wind in the white of it and that's for the valley himself all his views in politics widely supported by those protesters or is he a kind of a figurehead those who it is done with putin control it well i think i think that's a lot there is more is more accurate that i mean he is the lightning are all to for all sorts of discontent and all sorts of protests in russia and if you look at them and elsewhere there is particularly a lot of discontent. novosibirsk. the fire on an authority as you already have protests going on for many i'm. sometimes yes but not all he's the only person who all of the only symbol which has this going to bond russian appeal

which can bring out people in the streets from across the country which. booked us for you know local issues and be understood this why with with him but he is bringing them together and i think he's going to very glad we're going to mitchell this. we're fighting against the corruption fighting and looking putin personally to the. reserve and luxury and so forth been very very effective in bringing this abuse to get the very different people so how much of a headache is no value for putin and can he simply be put away for years in prison and federal deal with the problem as far as putin is concerned well i mean that certainly seems to be the working class the mormons and the man is not a was to bring up more people in the street show that they can just simply put him away. it's certainly a headache for for the us so it just it's a problem a nuisance they have to look down the whole of central mosque going to hold the

central st petersburg you know so that shows that they taking it very seriously at the same time you don't really have that kind of the critical mass of people that's what should really it kind of make them extremely warheads you healthy tens of thousands of people in moscow 1520000 same in st petersburg and in other cities so those sort of numbers that can steal handle bought the same time you have. elementary elections do elections coming up in september and that could be quite a dilemma lies in for the for the and for the kremlin that they can control that gender they conned control of the electoral narrative and that can lead to much greater disability ation just done a few months not sure i have to say that whatever your political viewpoint in russia nivelle me and his family well their extraordinary bravery. yes i think this is a very. important kind of message from the body that he was going to keep repeating

it's that on the freight neither should you be afraid you know come out don't don't but don't be afraid and you know he's certainly leading by example in that respect and you know he's extremely brave and also his wife as well he is she is she's she's been on the streets of moscow every day so yes so this is not somebody is hiding away something from you know from from abroad but you know actively participating in russia and taking in you know the extreme risk himself so that certainly is house to you know so that if i came as a kind of a leading figure of the russian opposition in that respect great to get your expertise on this alex thanks very much indeed that's alec tito's lecturer in modern european history at queen's university in belfast thank you. not protest is it not saddam demonstrating against covert 1000 restrictions were met by a heavy police presence offices forcefully broke up the protests of people are angry about a nighttime curfew that was imposed it is the 1st such frustration since world war

2 and it's led to riots in the west civil unrest and for decades step vassal was at the protests in amsterdam police clearing people up and she says demonstrate is one their freedoms back. the rights 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 so most of the protesters had left already but it's a small group of people who are using a fire crackers 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 area this is a very central area in the heart of am so that and right hundreds of police here behind me you can see. they're moving in on wall duchess of protesters here

with dogs and also there's a whole line of police on horses as well the protests were also held in belgium against coronavirus restrictions and demonstrators are frustrated with the country's tough luck and it's not time curfew hundreds of people have been arrested during the protests government is also banned all non-essential travel to and from belgium. and in austria thousands of protesters to fight demonstration faced off with police. this is austrians have been in a national lockdown since late december protesters voice their disapproval of the chants of us about and the potential for measures to be extended they say there is no end to the repeated lockdowns and they refuse to face masks. on a senior lecturer and global health adviser at the university college london school of pharmacy and she says a pandemic has been used as a tool by various lobby groups to polarize societies. i think we see that this

virus itself has become politicized and not the appropriate strategies people who are supporting lock down versus anti lockdown has also gotten 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 certainly it has not been easy but i think that reporting on the successes that we're seeing so far including this to sticks 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 we get there but we can if we have better measures particular 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. south africa's tourism sector has been hit hard by covert 900 it's a vital industry for the economy particularly cape town but businesses across the city are now struggling to stay open robin adams has been finding out. the 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 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 i mean 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. done you know family originally from bulgaria has been struggling to make ends meet i mean. despite the biggest client numbers has been to a company which he started in 2007 has not it's helped i used to hear 19 and now i have only one i don't have income from march of last year. just. in long street the heartbeat of guy turns into payment seem they are for sale and to let signs even. get to the streets no one can or can't 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 cut down as i had one of those an ordinary day in the alley a year business is on the face of suffering ordinary on that side of the. it would be lined with informal traders selling their way is mainly african but only a handful of them remain notorious even the basic clothes they've been. just maybe you can get different just for survival it's very difficult because of lockdown so what's the way forward how will we cover these are questions we put to the local government who look at the industry as all it's really an important sector for cape town a contributes around about one comma $2000000000.00 u.s. dollars to the city's economy and it creates around about $300000.00 direct and indirect jobs so far so priorities to make sure that you stabilize to do what is on the landscape by making as much relief available to our tourism 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 piece of the missions for people to lend or building from we're going to support it so that we can just you know give people that financial relief at this point in time while many of cut their losses and closed up shop people like daniel amy. jack and the estimated 75000 of his was jobs a risk in the midst who came at no choice but to live out the storm. items al-jazeera . is professor of economics and director of the development policy research unit at the university of cape town and he says it's the largest contraction of south africa's economy in modern economic history. i think what's happened as with most emerging markets and certainly on the african continent as well and globally is

a massive contraction saw growth or cost or 2020 indicate an average consensus contraction of about 6 and a half percent relative to last year so you fake to really is seeing the largest contraction in south africa's modern economic history. and the consequences of that 2200000 jobs lost at the last count what's going to happen is we are probably going to as as loft on eases and assuming that we don't have a 3rd wave. come back on stream across the board including those in the tourism sector and you're going to see a probably a push an increase in growth rates 2021 average consensus again of about 3 percent and let terms it still means that we we're not quite back where we were pre-code 19 but it means someone thought in terms of jobs what's going to happen i think is a recovery of some jobs i think those jobs in the informal sector in domestic

services those with what we call low intrigued area and exit. jobs those will probably come back on stream and so he's seeing some sort of a recovery into 2021 of some of those 2000000 jobs lost the concern is the permanent job losses and so 111 data point to keep an eye on is our unemployment rate which averages about 25 percent one of the highest in the emerging world is that going to take up beyond 25 percent as the back seam comes in and over 1000 dissipates. furthermore ahead on the news including fears of a coup a cloud of uncertainty in manama as a newly elected parliament has to meet for the 1st time. a crippled by code it is soaring at rates of infections lead support school with just 7 available intensive care beds. and little messes salary is linked by a spanish newspaper leaving fascinating fans divided over whether their star player is worth it to come out of the general sport.

former u.s. president donald trump has parted way to his ways with his lead impeachment lawyer little 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 a real elizondo is in washington d.c. and he says 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. so what would it take to can bring to convict trump what on tuesday 45 of the 50 senate republicans voted to consider stopping the trial before it even begins on the week in favor of the they argue that a president cannot face impeachment trials once they've left office now 17 republican senators need to break rank and vote along side the 50 democrats for trying to be convicted and that could prevent him from ever running for office again bruce fein is a former u.s. associate deputy attorney general and he says that donald trump will have a hard time finding legal representation. mr trump wanted just lawyers to recur to tate 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. 3 people have been killed off a car bomb exploded in the somali capital mogadishu near a hotel frequented by government officials pray say there are casualties on the scene as to not to witnesses heard heavy gunfire all trying to mislead explosion that armed men were seen entering the hotel the rebel group has claimed responsibility for the time. almost all nato troops will reportedly remain in afghanistan beyond may despite a deal between the u.s. and the taliban to draw down numbers seen in nato officials have told reuters that

the deal is conditions have not been met with the taliban blamed for a spike in violence reports suggest the u.s. troops might stay the u.s. hasn't commented on the report ministration has previously said it's reviewing the taliban agreement or nato in washington will have a challenge getting the taliban to agree to an extension beyond may there's concern that if the situation remains unclear the taliban may increase attacks the u.s. downsized its troops in afghanistan to 2500 just days before former president donald trump left office reaching a 19 year. the american forces work alongside nato allies and partners all together the nato military alliance has $10000.00 troops in afghanistan from $38.00 countries including germany u.k. italy georgia and turkey. the day i heard of the opening of a new parliament of man my fears of a possible military coup linger i'm sons you cheese m l d government one november's elections by

a landslide with accusations of electoral fraud or tests and an increasing security presence for the country in a state of uncertainty reports now from. tension on the streets of miami mother sweet as the country braces for a possible political crisis. going on we're not saying the military will take power but we're not saying at one time. this was the moment that it all began in a press conference on tuesday military spokesperson zalman turner refused to rule out the possibility of a coup. the following day 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 you receive the government in order no you can just ignore us real stakeholder we have. obligations we have the guardian to the constitution

so this is a major message the military is trying to send it to the government and also the international community. fear escalated after reports of an increasing security presence and sightings of armored vehicles being moved around various cities as tensions reach their peak on saturday the military issued a new statement saying the commander in chief's comments had been misinterpreted. 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. the popular support that the crowd is gaining confidence and if so can fit in the community as the pressure builds the

have been violent attacks on and l.d. 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 is making me an elderly scared and making the people skewed 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. still ahead here in algeria nigeria plans to revamp 3 of its oil refineries after years of mismanagement and corruption. going solo the swedish film festival offering one lucky movie buff the chance to watch films on an island alone for a week. and the new south american champions arrive home to huge crowds who

still despite the country backing are in barcelona or in general will have the details it's called. is still remarkably quiet weather wise in the immediate future this is still blowing down the gulf so there has been very dusty recently tempers dropped 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 damascus forecast certainly looks breezy and then sherry by thursday in a quick preview of thursday if it comes off this is is quite development through

western sadi through jordan all 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 sherry there's rain coming in from the south for the western cape in the immediate future it 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. the journey to work can be a challenge on its own. but for some peruvian villagers traversing one of the world's most dangerous roads is a risk that comes with the job. we follow the journey of these people

as they get them to survive. risking it all. on al-jazeera. al-jazeera is investigative unit goes undercover tracking down an international organized crime network. discount to. go back to exposing direct links to corruption at the highest level of the bangladesh government. the fact. that al-jazeera investigations all the prime minister's men. or. to.

try to get you what she had 0 her mind about top stories and i to say more than 4000 people have been arrested across russia as they defied bands of protests and this was a scene in some petersburg where demonstrators are demanding the release of jailed opposition politician alexina valmy. protests is. to have been demonstrating against 1000 mistress and some were met by heavy police presence to have people angry about a nighttime curfew that was imposed a week that. hundreds have been arrested in belgians count during an anti lockdown protest crowds are rallying against country's tough restrictions and curfew a ban on non-essential travel to and from belgium is also introduced on wednesday. while europe's caywood $900.00 vaccine shortage was top of the agenda at a virtual meeting between the european commission president and pharmaceutical

company c.e.o.'s it comes after a battle with astra zeneca over vaccine supplies the e.u. then impose controls on the export of vaccines produced in the blog there is in paris and has details of the meeting. well the meeting between the european commission the head of wonderland and the c.e.o. of the big pharmaceutical companies that are producing working on the covert 19 vaccine took place via video conference now after the meeting the european commission put out a statement it said that the aim of the meeting had been for the european union commission to talk to pharmaceutical companies about how they could better work together on any future pandemic responses and also of course on the covert 19 pandemic response now and its variants are the same and says that the commission will look at putting together a group a task force that can work on this issue in the future one of the most interesting

points of the statement which was very brief was that it pointed out the challenges of the manufacturing capacity so what we're talking here is the challenges of trying to supply vaccine doses and that really is the only reference in the statement to the route that has broken out between the european commission and some of these pharmaceutical companies that are saying that they are having challenges on delivering their doses we have heard that for example from buy and take visor we've heard that from a dern or a huge route as erupted between the european commission and the british swedish pharmaceutical company astra zeneca after astra zeneca said that it would perhaps not be able to have to reduce its supply of vaccine doses by at least 60 percent in the 1st quarter of this year that is something that the european commission has said is a breach of contract it's extremely angry about that astra zeneca denies though that it has breached at all its agreement. germany's militarist sending medical

staff and equipment support school 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 8 $150.00 some critically ill patients are being sent to the portuguese islands including madeira for school has the highest 7 day average of infections and deaths per capita globally recorded but he still 8 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 go on beyond the hospital beds that we have in the public service if you bring in the private sector really only have around $1250.00 i.c.u. bats in total and we've passed the $800.00 we're basically at $850.00 s.

you beds just for kobe patients and 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. brazil's neighbors are imposing new restrictions on travel to and from latin america's largest country is concerned about a new current of our fair and spreads across the region rowland's provides some hope but officials warn there's still a long way to go before the end of the pandemic. has this report. thank the rare piece of good news amongst the coronavirus misery bolivia's 1st vaccination a nurse in the country's hearted eastern city of santa cruz and messy end of the message. i feel good very excited and also

a bit nervous 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 sputnik and the ox that astra zeneca vaccines. but we have a plan to combat the corona virus in the 2nd wave a plan to have stages such as tests tests and more tests a plan that has a 2nd element to provision of vaccines that today are becoming a reality for our health workers there's a similar story in colombia where the president announced the national vaccination program is to begin in 3 weeks only inform my law school and 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 well borders remain closed trapping these migrants mostly from haiti but also cuba and africa their ultimate

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

a situation made worse by oxygen shortages in the capital despite that foreign tourists taking advantage of mexico's more relaxed travel restrictions continue to flock to the beaches the groan a virus. some of us are family ready had it. it's not that big a deal and the governments are making it worse than it actually is however for many elsewhere in latin america it can get much worse the vaccination programs provide hope but on the horizon it's still a long way off. in their al-jazeera one of cyrus public gatherings and curfew restrictions are being extended by 2 weeks in south korea the decision follows a coded 1000 outbreak could marry schools last week which caused a spike in infections stricter distancing measures have been in place since early december and they will continue until the end of the upcoming lunar new year holidays. members of a world health organization team have visited

a market in the chinese city of as they investigate the origins of the pandemic the animal market distributed food to the entire city and is thought to be where the virus was 1st detected the team has visited 2 hospitals that were at the center of the early outbreak will also visit a covert $1000.00 museum dedicated to the early history of the pandemic before drafting a report a u.k. world war 2 veteran who was knighted after raising millions of dollars for the national health service has tested positive for corona virus during britain's 1st lockdown captain tom moore famously was $100.00 laps around his garden before his 100th birthday and raised more than $43000000.00 its initial goal was to raise a little over $1000.00 for his efforts quickly gained national and international attention now the tree in. a car bomb in syria has killed at least 6 people dozens more were injured after the explosion near a market in the town is near the southern turkish city of kill it's being controlled

by pro turkish backed rebels since a 2016 operation to drive out myself in the region and no one has claimed responsibility for the attack. india's prime minister is standing firm on the government's plans to go ahead with controversial new laws that pharma say will ruin their livelihoods but no renter modi 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 modi also described the violence that erupted during a rally on republic day that's an insult to the country one person died dozens 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. we will not agree under pressure or make any conditional agreements or compromise we will talk about all 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've also voted for him we will talk and there would be a respectable agreement is given a call so we will respect that and journalists in india are protesting the arrest of their colleague who was detained while covering those former protests on saturday when people who was reporting on the rallies at the scene were. al jazeera journalist mahmud 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. 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 to satisfy local demand it's also been decades of mismanagement and corruption when al the government has begun

a process of modernizing 3 of its refineries i would address reports from a bridge. this is one of nigeria's government run or oil refineries in the city of port. but most of the separation has been shut down to a great equipment and facility. the government plans to hand over these money using 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 products. it's for plans to continue to operate well below capacity and sometimes shut down for months of say that cost to stop what we have done different now just to make sure that we know what we have been doing it's that we go back to that but better find it such a way that you don't just pick 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 have a fantasy but it will be funny because. there's a new urgency to complete the commercialization process nigeria has been hit by a lot on prices and a weakened global demand. the government desperate to shore up its revenue base sees 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 will have a lot of side what does with the jeep when just will be delivered and ultimately will come back when i get i would become the hub of italian product in the us and because of vision so much of fact that we're expecting any bus from west africa what are you just of doing some nigerians say they are cautiously optimistic avis is not. valid. it's probably wrong. in spite of the age of the technologies that produced them over 50 years ago the refineries of that age around the world of the us to fully functional so i think they can be rejigged to the point where they wish to come back to their functionality in such a way that the government of nigeria the peoples of nigeria still have the stake in

the refineries. officials insist this time it will be different but nigerian social 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 a pusher. fled here in al-jazeera got support coming up and being played golf with paul casey gives his right a cup i put a big boost with victory in dubai that's coming up. on the big. afghanistan is on the cusp of a new chapter in its history. after the u.s. on the telephone signed an agreement to pave the way for the withdrawal of international troops. the high cost was paid to get to this point. over the past few years the u.s. has increasingly conducted its part of the war from the sky with more bombs dropped

last year than any other year in the past decade. but with that came a rise in civilian casualties. this is all accidents to happen at mistakes do happen and that this is about owning our mistakes says about things like this about accountability in a largely unaccountable war for families we interviewed not receiving adult women from the u.s. left without closure. they told us that they still like what happened to their loved ones was a crime. and they want justice and answers something war too often tonight's.

right let's get straight into this for his gemma. thank you mick refound odor is worried that a 2 week quarantine ahead of the take your olympics would put off tennis but as you might otherwise compete well number 2 has just finished quarantine ahead of the australian open thinks it would be tough to squeeze in the period of south isolation in japan ahead of the games it was already a packed 20 minute set you'll take it games were delayed for a year because of the car in a virus pandemic and are expected to begin in july but i doubt he's won 20 grand slam titles in his career it appeared to cost doubt on the events 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 one and then before the olympics for 15 days or not seems like sports perspective seems very difficult combining our daughter with an ar 15 software and then to play olympics looks difficult to fix it in our calendar but as i said we're

going to do what the people who knows about values and who knows about protecting. the people in every single county. we're going to just follow their instructions. is yet to be confirmed whether or not half it's competing in take care would need to quarantine but not everybody feels like nadal having also just south for 14 days in australia u.s. open champion. says she do it all again for the olympics the way that i feel was like i will stay in my room for 2 weeks to pluto and thinks i missed out on the last one and i'm playing in tokyo the 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. live apolo have moved to within a point of 2nd placed manchester united in the premier league that's after they

beat west ham 31 by mid-summer got 2 of their goals in genie one out of the other livable and offered in the table in 4 points off leaders manchester city although they have played a game all thomas who has his 1st win as chelsea had his side beat bunny to nail 2 successive it clean sheets under tool for chelsea you move up to 7th in the table leicester lost 31 to leeds for their 1st defeat in 8 games and tottenham it kicked off against brighton shortly in italy last year improve their chances of playing european football next season and they got revenge on someday adam our situation for that so you had just 3 minutes into the game with roughly a coach strike a career goal the 2nd with another great solo effort in a $31.00 victory that was their 5th in a row in see the win made amends for their midweek cuppa tally defeat to the same opponents a spanish newspaper has leaked details of legal messy contracts and is dividing

fans in the spanish city the deal signed in 2017 is worth the $673000000.00 over 4 seasons as according to a monday newspaper is believed to be the most expensive contract ever agreed to an athlete in any sport and messi would have to pay hof of that in taxes in spain say the league didn't come from them and they will sue the paper. you're grilled. i think there are more important headlines today than publishing leo's contract how much he gets is something between parser and the player it isn't my business what i see here is an amount of money i can't possibly fathom i won't make this amount of money not even in $15.00 consecutive reincarnations but i insist this doesn't merit to be in the headline of a national newspaper the level that it's absurd it's absurd missy's contract is ruining barcelona. i think that if footballers generate more revenue than i was cool to people then why shouldn't they get paid accordingly media rights image

rights it wouldn't be free if he didn't generate that many millions in revenue at a big club then he wouldn't get paid that money. police in manchester say they will start really investigate the racist comments which have been posted to several manchester united players on social media this past week marcus rushford was the latest to suffer racial abuse following his side stroll with austin on saturday the england international described it as a humanity and social media at its worst. brazilian team arrived home to a hero's welcome off to winning the biggest game in south american club football the new couple limited as champions are greeted by thousands of fans as they returned to their training ground in sao paolo but the huge crowds were clearly ignoring social distancing rules in a country where more than $220000.00 people have died from the corona virus is 2nd only to the united states and less than one percent of the population has been vaccinated for my arrest the fellow brazilian side some toss in the fine i'm in

a largely empty american our stadium in rio only 5000 special guests were allowed inside that was subject to a negative 19 test there were no goes until the 99th minute on substitute brain or lopez and got the winner of the found a rest it was their 1st effort on target but enough to secure the copper trophy for the 2nd time in the history of the celebrations and continued into the case much news conference where the film iris play is a sight that coach alpharetta fairly joined the club in november living apart from his family back in his native portugal. who still used to post is one thing that it costs a lot to be a good coach it's because i can't have both worlds professional and firmly on the worst for the worst son worst uncool the worst husband worst brother it's true i have no doubt that i'm the best coach but i've lost everything that's why are crying to my pillow because i can't be with my daughters. 43 year old english

golf paul casey says he feels like he's. after winning the dubai desert classic casey chipped in for a buddy here at the 4th hole one of 5 in his 2 under op final round a finished on 17 under a row that was 4 shots clear of south africa's brand and star in its case is the 15th title on the european tour and it based his hopes of qualifying for europe's ryder cup team for this year's contest in september. yeah right of cups is something special there's a long way to go to play. i need to keep this form and that is always full for now i'll be back with more later joe a great thanks for that thank you know the pandemic has forced the postponement or cancellation of many film festivals around the world of course but some have taken creative steps the 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 or research 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 gothenburg 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 the works to films under those circumstances when you're all by yourself in your home feels different to watch the scene where for example there is a big party going on or where people are very touchy and we want to take it further and take each day extreme. the winning applicant is a merchant lisa and her author who has been on the frontlines of sweden's battle with covert 19 i'm looking forward just to be able to reflect

a bit about what happened this year and not being anxious of infecting other people i've been meeting a lot of covert patients so idea of nothing 15 people is really appealing. and roth will be able to watch the 60 festival premieres in headquarters on the island or in a screening room in how to whereas lighthouse have video diary will go online during his stay before because of the festival is a social distancing and how the pandemic is change the world and our relationship with film a week on this island of watching movies is an attempt to at least us break the surface of the sense of isolation felt by millions during the lockdowns of the past year cinemas journey away from theatres and into the home but gone a long time ago going to the movies in the company of strangers make it more appealing again once the pandemic finally ends. al jazeera come the where sweden.

and that's it for me macleod my colleague martin miles we will be right here it's more news from other africa. as the global pandemic continues to spread will african nations manage to secure that $1000.00 facts scenes african union leaders will also try to find peaceful resolutions to heighten regional tensions in ethiopia goes on and so manja the annual african union summit on al-jazeera. talk to old is there a. tell us are we in a case where some of the stuff you compensated for that is all we listen to the

only music you hear is your own the most beautiful music in the world is silence we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on the edges their own. i really did bad thing. would i be able to forgive somebody like me a convicted war criminal seeks out the survivors of a prison camp to apologize for the crimes of his past i just can't even. be unforgiven a witness documentary on al-jazeera my old ask. is nothing but. the.

girl on the. protests from vladivostok to st peters bugs russians come out in support of jailed kremlin critic alexina valley thousands are detained. i know i'm in london you're watching al jazeera also coming up on the program plugging the vaccine gap the e.u. secures 9000000 more astra zeneca doses along with a promise to boost.