i'll just say. every. this is al jazeera. hello welcome i'm peter dopy you're watching the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. calls for civil disobedience in me and again sunday's coups the u.n. security council meets to discuss possible sanctions against the military. a court hearing for the russian opposition leader alexei novell neither could see him in

jail for 3 and a half years while the crackdown continues against his supporters. and concerns just like everybody is right now a. new coronavirus variance in the u.k. lead to calls urging people in badly affected areas to go outside only if necessary . also this let the games go on says japan's and then pick policy even as the pandemic emergency in tokyo is extended by a month. and i'm sort of higher to the us or to the coronavirus impacts for january transfer window financial uncertainty leaves europe's top money betting some of the love if the amounts on pay if you. 15 of the world's most powerful countries are meeting to discuss the coup in me in this hour as the nation's most senior politicians are locked up flights are being

grounded and troops are out on the streets that's concerned most members of the united nations security council which is holding an emergency meeting to decide on an international response but not all countries are in agreement china has a deep vested interest in neighboring myanmar and also veto powers against possible sanctions or majority which young women were communicating with all the parties concerned on issues related to the security council any action by the international community should contribute to political and social stability and how peaceful reconciliation and avoid intensifying conflicts and further complicating the situation. will power is now in the hands of general mina lean who is appointed his own cabinet the military says its takeover is only temporary and it's promising free and fair elections in one year the ousted party the national league for democracy says detained leader aung san suu kyi is in good health but she is still being held some politicians are being allowed to return home and the urging their

supporters to fight back. in them with. the curse of the coup is rooted in our country and this is the reason why our nation remains poor i feel sad and upset for our fellow citizens and for their future all the voters who gave their backing to us in the 2020 general election should follow orcs and to cheese instructions to carry out civil disobedience ok we'll have an update from me and in moment but 1st our diplomatic editor james bays joining us from u.n. headquarters in new york what can we expect from the u.n. james. well the u.n. security council is supposed to be in session about now i say supposed to be i can't tell you whether it's actually started or not because they're meeting and this i think is interesting is in closed session they're not going to have the cameras filming what they're saying today and that's i think because of the sensitivity of the situation the security council is also meeting in virtual

session that's because of code 19 but also worth telling you they couldn't have met here at the u.n. headquarters today because although i'm in the building the building is technically closed because of the snow situation in new york despite the fact is a closed meet meeting and a virtual meeting we are able to keep tabs of what's going on by lots of phone calls what saps and text messages to diplomats and we expect to get some idea of what's happening in this meeting the u.n. security council to be briefed by the u.n. special envoy on me and mark we expect to tell you in the next few minutes after she started speaking some idea of what she is saying to the members of the security council but this is a security council that appears to be divided the u.k. took over the presidency in the last 24 hours it's the presidency for february they already were going to have a meeting on me on mar and they were going to have it on thursday they have bought

it forward because of the coup because of the urgency of the situation despite that i'm told by diplomats that there's at least one security council member who says that they don't have instructions on what to do at this meeting and that may be a problem in pushing forward a strongly worded statement which is what many of the security council members want they want to return to democracy to be in that statement and they want the immediate release of all of those to be detained to be in that statement pretty clear as well speaking to security council members that the main country that has a problem with those sort of lines in a statement is china and of course china is the key. country that they need to sign up to a statement because china is the one country in the world that has the most leverage with the military in myanmar and briefly james i guess for all the u.n. security council members including the chinese they've got questions that they don't have the answers to yet not least i guess and most importantly what the

military might do next. what the military might do next and also we don't actually know the status of those that are detained i think the u.n. is quite concerned they want to make sure that no one has been harmed and so i think that's quite important u.n. officials have been having a real problem just getting anyone to pick up the phone and. tell them what's going on to find lines of communication to the military that are actually being onset and of course the problem has been made worse by the fact that many communications and internet links have been cut it's a very difficult situation the security council i think will have some division but the possibility of some sort of statement potentially at the end of this meeting if there is a statement we will probably hear it read out by the u.k. ambassador brought barbara wood at the end of the meeting we understand she's going to meet virtually with reporters i'll be on that call i suspect if there is no

agreed statement she will still speak to us but then giving her views as the british ambassador rather than giving the views of the security council as a whole james many thanks james mees our diplomatic editor there in a snowy new york behind him there at the united nations to talk to james thank you ok let's turn to the crisis on the ground in me in my money file has more now from gone. and we have had some word on what's on how long the sense that she is at least one of the n.l.b. spokespersons gto he's posted on his facebook. he posted a facebook post saying that she was in good health he didn't mention where she is but that she's that she isn't big he did say that she's not being moved from where she is and it is still that she's being kept at her calm panel that's yet to be confirmed kept within her own home so yes an update on the fact that her health is is apparently adequate and so presumably that means there is some sort of line of

communication open. tween her people and herself which is obviously a reasonably positive development and of course yes we are hearing lots of people have some being released today this morning we had quite a few regional ministers were released so the the heads of states and regions were among those arrested and they want rounded up could they be dual but they were mostly taken in the areas that they based and we've seen quite a lot of releases of those people today some photos coming up on social media showing them back at their homes. while the general known in charge of me in ma was sanctioned by the united states 2 years ago over human rights abuses against rahane the muslims in 2017 the military launched a crackdown against them in the state of rakhine the army maintains it was an operation against an armed group but thousands of raping of civilians were killed

and $730000.00 fled violence rape and torture to neighboring bangladesh the un's top court the international court of justice is prosecuting me in ma on suspicion of genocide last year it ordered government forces to protect the writing of quotes from genocidal acts dr mbia per vien is chairperson of the european writing the council and co-founder of the writing of medics organization she joins us by skype from germany now dr mbia proving welcome to the news what's your reading of what's going on in right now. in myanmar right now everything is disturbed and you know that if this is due to this military cool. there is a hard hit to a young democracy actually an army ally has been suffering during this. miramar military government and also or legally

a bit of positive front loader from laos have happened during the early leave but still there are a lot of things need to be. improved especially when it comes to the u.s. and the ethnic minorities we hear a lot of disturbing news especially. from the rhine girls and we have condemned. millions study which was released on behalf of the council and this condemn and the concerns and does not mean i mean which we did. does not mean that we stand for there are thousands who chief i was on 2 d. under her all saw. as genocide have been under the military of myanmar and it continued under some switchy or their elite leadership she even those arms which you went to. and defendant the military regime and their crimes and their

genocide happen and go there i guess but to be as a people of myanmar their home yes feed our feed our people of myanmar our brothers and sisters there are some things that they have been going through and then there will be the fear of the. abuses that happen under this government and the really fear of our home guess what would happen next we are planning to leave by trade and then after this call this super position will happen if it happens to the criminals. back to looking for dr perkin you're mentioning young son suchi there were clearly awkward questions still to be asked of her and her part in the way that the country was operating and functioning up to this code if the country stays essentially calm between now and the elections that we're being told that will happen in a year is your main worry here that the military in

a country and a culture of isolation will go back to what it allegedly and actually did to those reading who are still in the country in that northern rakhine state. yes you're the fear is more right now because. they're illegal many people to look happy these are very much a let down by the know the and our souls hoochie but their oppression and the persecution arthroscopy is genocide happened under though the military. government so it will continue and these low level people left or what is or what will be the our fate will be this genocide will completely take its face and so we have a fear and also that other ethnic minorities living in myanmar and also the whole

diverse of the democrat a democratic give us a lot of the oil everywhere is under the cloak and therefore nobody can predict what would happen but as i said that is a fear there could be another big fan of outcomes which he she led quite often but overlay is under more danger at this moment ok dr ambient have been there in germany thank you so much. moving on russian police have detained more than 350 supporters of the kremlin critic and opposition leader alexina valmy security forces were sent in ahead of his court appearance to prevent mass demonstrations the rally was arrested on his return from germany last month where he was recovering from having been poisoned he was accused of violating parole from a previous sentence he faces 3 and a half years in jail and xandra got 4 joins us from moscow alexander these people have been detained where are they and are they going to be charged with anything.

well the people that were detained today are taken to the police stations where from the day after they are charged with something some might be just dismissed they should be taken to the pension centers the thing is that is that the engine centers in moscow are already full day even started using the facilities usually reserved for migrants and as we know there is also by now why i am saying that some might believe is because police was detaining people that just looked suspicious in a sense that they might be attempting to protest so they might have arrested also completely innocent boss advise that were just on their way to work or wherever so this was action done by the police in order to prevent any kind of brought us today in front of the court and i have to say it's been a successful one in that sense because they did not manage together anywhere being

detained on their way to the court to the whole court has been fenced and sealed off since the early morning there is enormous presence of the police around the building and in all the side streets even in the yards there also checking people with their documents where they live there in order to let them pass but on top of that to this point after the protests this week in the previous weekend the closest allies of the are either in house arrest or in detention including his own brother which is soon to be charged for violating the health disease control regulations and what could happen to him next. well we are at this moment awaiting for the verdict the judge would rule for deliberations. wording is expected in some 2 hours and if judge decides that

he did violate the conditions of his suspended sentence that means that he gets a real prison time and how he was in 2014. he was charged or he got 3 and a half years of suspended sentence but he spent already a year in a house arrest which would mean that he would have 2 and a half years morter serve but that is not to the end of it because in the meantime there are new charges charges of embezzling his own corruption foundation and viney today when he spoke in court he said that this is a showcase political process that is meant to scare millions of people who are against the present economic and political situation in russia so this old regime that is rather show showing weakness of the regime then it's then it's power and he also again accused but this time from the courtroom and on the record of lawyer

putin to be behind his poisoning. sons on xander even though he's behind bars now and he may stay behind bars for at least 2 years he's more of a problem to the kremlin than he ever was when he was in germany and more of a problem than he was before he was poisoned when he was in siberia. well yes indeed i have to say that the man that left russia in august in a coma was a different man than the one that came back in a political sense in a sense of how many people support him and how many people are willing to come out on the streets and to protest many of these people not necessarily want vile need to be their next candidate but what they are standing what they are saying they're standing and right they are coming out and being restricted detained is because some of them. heavy enough they say some are saying that this is about the

principles that these men is being accused of something that he didn't do and that he perceived as a threat and that we as a voters these people say are basically don't have a choice anymore and in the meantime of course more restrictive laws have been posted which basically make it impossible to express political will otherwise than on the street is the position of the opposition in russia so in a sense his return which is here considered a very brave move made him an oppositional politician number one in russia and xander in moscow thank you very much let's talk as well to khrushchev a professor of international affairs at the new school she joins us on skype from moscow nina khrushchev or is there any. the the legal authorities in russia will keep alexina valmy behind bars. hi. well

so far probably not but also the stakes sometimes surprises us and ken in fact saying look we've. suggested that or we insisted that he should conform to the law but since. he has been sick he is here maybe he will go under house arrest i mean this is that on very kind of a wishful thinking but it is possible it's not about. what about. that possibility of that ahead it's probably likely of the way they've been forcing him that he's going to be 3 and give him 3 and a half years if not more so he would be taught a lesson and the way deposition or not deposition to protest has been treated that probably if that might shift likely a scenario who's it that the the upper echelons of russian politics and i

guess as well the judiciary that part of it that is involved in the legal process that he's going through just now what is it that they're frightened of this is one man who can get hundreds perhaps thousands of people out on the streets spasmodically despite the cold to protest in his favor but it is just one man and mr putin has been elected into office again and again and again so what is it about mr nivelle me that there are say it mr putin is frightened of. well i mean that's how revolutions start you mean you need a one man you need a one man who can organize the crowds and the lighting means that man we can organize the crowds which in we know does not like revolutions because more than anything he is and you know given russian history probably justified he is terrified of losing power he is also a man of great ambition to be

a great man and so if he if not by he can take him down then he is no longer he doesn't he's not going to be considered a great man so that is a little bit. kind of a good indictive a k.g.b. the indicative part of of putin but i think more then than anything is that by his existence and the way and i heard your previous guest talking about the basically miraj alyssa mythical return because he returned knowing that that that's going to happen to him is that he cannot be allowed to continue his work if least in a space that is legally allowed so to speak and that's why when we call the trial i mean it is like for me i study a lot of. studying this purges of 937 i mean this is a farcical trial which trial which has absolutely no legal basis basis which now i

mean in fact said and he also said very well that this trial is that they try to scare me because scaring me one man it's also mean that's scary they're scaring you because i go to prison that that everybody can go to prison i've got to interrupt which i apologize we'll talk again i'm sure here on the news are many thanks for joining us from moscow thank you. plenty more still to come here on this program for you including the world health organization reacts to condemnation of its investigation in china to discover the origins of the coded pandemic israel's current $1000.00 vaccination program has been so successful its pace is slowing where does that leave the palestinians. and in sport could be concerns there to the australian cricket team responses to or to south africa because of a ban on acceptable health risk. the u.k. variant of coronaviruses mutated in

a way that could help if the vaccines that's according to a scientific advisor to the british government now has the aim for 84 k. mutation the same as has been seen in the highly contagious south african and brazilian coronavirus variants now scientists say if the virus does have this mutation you may need higher levels of antibodies to defeat it levels that might not be created by the current vaccines and early study into the pfizer biotech bank scene should have provided less protection against the south african variant clinical trial data for the novak's and johnson and johnson vaccines showed the same thing vaccine developers like madonna are looking at updating their shots to protect offer better protection against the different strains the u.k. correspondent following that story for us here in the news hour so andrew this is possibly the worst case scenario of a variant of form

a strain of covert 19 that gets in underneath the vaccine radar. there is a prospect of that a really disturbing prospect but easy for a 4 k. could actually do a number of things primarily number one is that it could not actually be affected by vaccines as you pointed out that isn't certain yet but it's a distinct possibility furthermore there is doubt about this in terms of how it will affect treatment in hospitals it would appear possibly not much difference with the ordinary covert but the issue is this that this will eat for a 4 k. will actually cause a drop in the immune system or an inability of the immune system to actually defend itself so what ramifications that has for the condition of the patient isn't clear

it could just be that it's easier to catch it furthermore does this mean that efore rate for k. will mean that forest will spread more widely is it more easy to catch this virus that's also unclear right now but one thing is certain that it's really a question now not much of that that's not so much as the spread of code but the actual evolution this this whole mutation process the larger the number of people getting catching coded infection rates going up then the more likelihood there is of more of these and more vaccines different vaccines or different permutations of the vaccines and have to take place to stick with a system that could avoid this this all happening after 80000 as you pointed out 80000 cases a sort of 80000 people will be tested in mass mass operations all over the u.k.

in the in 8 points or actually not all over the u.k. but 8. of those. 8 locations because of this fear that the south african virus in 11 cases in the u.k. is being caught without any contact with south africa so this this without unease with south africans or anything anybody coming in this is a real worry as well for the u.k. just as the curve is going down woods rather than upwards and this could be a sign that the south african virus that the south african permutation of coded is spreading on its of its own accord within the u.k. and briefly and to just to be clear there you're talking there about community transmission which is a worry for people like mr uncork and boris johnson the u.k. prime minister because that means there's no obvious overlap or contact with somebody who's literally been on a plane from a country that's given its name to one of these variants but if we rewind by about 6 weeks we were talking about when we 1st started talking about variants we were

talking about the variant only one of them at that point being 70 percent more contagious but now what we're talking about is added levels of contagion combined with a mutated viruses ability to basically defeat the vaccine and it's not just as simple as oh give someone a 3rd shot of the vaccine that won't get close either. well in all fairness there has been a number of scientific explanations for a whole raft of measures for the vaccines in order to update them to actually be able to match that these are mutations now that is apparently it's a bit like the flu virus you keep seeing are the vaccines are being adapted we're now in a in a position where as one scientist pointed out in his reaction to this whole thing that this is evolution now not just a spread of infection it's it's the evolvement of the virus within because of the

mutations the point is it isn't necessarily going to be. uncontrollable it's just a question of vaccines more investment of vaccines and all of this coming just as russia has announced that it's incredibly happy and and reassured that the lancet international journal has approved its sputnik 5 vaccine which is right across russia it was released and rolled out without full approval and the west was very skeptical about this saying it was done transparent and potentially dangerous now there is the credibility of the lancet saying that this vaccine is acceptable and in fact has a 92 percent efficacy rate all this as that would evolution is worrying a lot of scientists and governments and people under thank you very much anderson

is the. japan's prime minister has extended a state of emergency in tokyo and 9 other regions for one month to curb virus infections there the rate of new cases has slowed slightly since a surge led to restrictions being tightened in january but the government is trying to restore domestic and international confidence with less than 6 months to go until the tokyo lympics the head of the event says the games will happen regardless of the pandemic william pesek is an independent journalist and commentator who says he doubts the olympics will actually take place. they one of the biggest questions of course is whether or not it's safe to bring about a 1000000 spectators as japan expects to to one of the most densely populated cities in the world during a pandemic and i think what you and needs to do is think about you know 20 years from now how will history remember this moment will we look back at tokyo 2021 and say boy that was a big mistake that was a super spreader event and so i think in many ways you have this staring contest

where japan would rather have switzerland canceled the olympics which would mean drought would rather have choked you know do it and in the interim you have a lot of athletes around the world wondering what gives but i do think there is there is a matter of liability i mean certainly you have a lot of companies that have put up there in some cases tens of millions of dollars of corporate sponsorship are they going to be happy to walk away and take the loss but i think you know there's a there's also this question of the japanese economy japan has a lot riding on the olympics coming off and so there might be a push by the government to say look maybe we can do some kind of spectator free event something much so far scaled down from what we're planning at the moment but they've been very very slow to accept that situation if you will so i think in many ways of japan 6 months ago had set up a kind of plan b. or a plan c. and said why don't we do a spectator free games quarantine the athletes i know spectators whatsoever they could have pulled off the games would not have been that sort of you know the

extravaganza that choked you know i had wanted but here we are u.s. secretary of state antony blinken said china was falling short in providing adequate access to scientists on the ground continue has this report from beijing. on the trail of a detective story that's how the world health organisation has described its mission to uncover the origins of the pandemic and behind. and touring an animal health care facility these scientists were up late about their work. they visited hospitals and the stupid market with the 1st car had 19 cases were detected one year since the beginning of the outbreak the u.n. agency says seeing the sights firsthand is important but they are having very productive discussions with chinese counterparts visiting different hospitals around they've had a very good visit to the market seeing firsthand the stalls and walking through and we had some good feedback from them most of the importance of being able to

physically walk through but the mission is politically sensitive on monday u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken raised questions of a beijing's willingness to provide with adequate access and accurate information the mission has included visits to an exhibition depicting medical workers as heroes and to a cold change storage facility. state media here had suggested the virus was imported to china through furs and food beijing has rejected criticism saying the w.h.o. should conduct a similar investigation in the u.s. then you make what you can do to your the u.s. sunder for disease control says corona virus and the bodies were identified there in december 29th teen we hope like china the u.s. will also take positive cooperative additive use in pursuing the origin of the virus and the uveitis w.h.o. expert to america the w.h.o. says all hypotheses are on the table but the trip has been tightly controlled the

team of members but expertise and food safety and veterinary science to speak some of the 1st quarter virus patients and visit we institute of are all itchy that's for dangerous pathogens including corona virus is being studied the w.h.o. mission to will hunt took months of negotiation to agree with the chinese government team members who have spoken to al jazeera say their field work could also take months even years they've lost the international community to be patient until voice any cynicism about their investigation katrina al-jazeera into. israel's coronavirus vaccination drive appears to be slowing down as many people have received the jabs more than $3000000.00 people have had their 1st dose in palestine there are concerns about his low vaccination rate there a lack of supply and the potential spread of a new strain we have teams covering the situation across israel and palestine we'll hear from the ibrahim in ramallah in

a moment 1st his hairy 4 sits in west jerusalem. there are. communities within israeli society particularly palestinian israeli and ultra-orthodox communities where there is less trust in this vaccine where it's been harder to get people to come in to the vaccination centers and indeed there are many people under 35 are complaining that well the vaccination centers aren't nearly as busy and we can't yet get our vaccine and so it's been reported at least that in one clinic over the last few days some 1000 doses have had to be thrown out and at a time when there's been a big fuss about israel finally handing over some 2000 doses to the palestinian authority that seems like a lot and when you also consider the fact that these 2 populations are very well interconnected with both populations mixing in occupied east jerusalem and day workers coming in from the west bank still into israel itself there are

concerns and repack tacl point of view as well as from an international law point of view. palestinians are yet to be vaccinated these 2000 jobs that israel delivered to the palestinian authority is part of $5000.00 vaccines that palestinians will get not enough to cover for auction of what palestinians need the health ministry is saying that there are more than 12000 wrong klein worth in the health sector dealing with patients in i.c.u. and labs and they are all in an urgent need and there is also 5000000 palestinians in the occupied west bank and in the gaza strip and they have no thaw in the no ark says to vaccine until now this is why the closure is continuing after 7 pm and on weekends and while the health ministry is saying that there is no numbers of people infected with the wires it's only because not many people are getting tested

. 69 people have been arrested in his capital ankara while protesting in solidarity with students in istanbul hundreds of people around the site the bugsy university in istanbul on monday staging demonstrations for nearly a month now against president. appointment of a university head at least 159 people were detained because soon of his life was in istanbul so let me just explain to us what happened here. well theater actor these student protests were a small scale protests for almost a month especially after the latest president appointment to the universities let me summarize it like this in turkey on till 9 to 1980 when the military coup happened you know where seas were able to select elected their own chancellor its presence but after the military coup in 1988 then the law changed about that and

the universities were able to pick 3 candidates they represent those candidates to the higher education council and with the reference of the council those candidates are presented to the president and the president approved but in 2016 when a failed coup attempt to place and tricky and turkey switched a presidential system everything changed. with the presidential decree turkish president is able to pick the president or the chance there is of the universities himself so you don't need a candidate that person can be from a different school or etc and this is the 2nd chance or appointment and the protest started in boys achieve university boss for a sunni versus in istanbul which was a stablished as robert college by the americans during the ottoman time it is one of the leading universities

a real master science center let me say the students reacted against the latest chancellor appointment because they believe the person who was appointed as the chancellor is directly linked with politics because that professor worked within the party and they said we don't want this chance or we want we want to choose. elect our own president so those those were the why the protests begin but after a while especially yesterday the protests went on. after police intervention yesterday in istanbul at night police detained 159 people most of them are room these 6 to one of them are who were waiting to be sent to the court when i spoke to the security over shows about the security officers and nouns that . 2 of each 3 students who were detained yesterday were not for soon averse to

students and today in the capital ankara there was a protest to show solidarity with the there was force university students and again the protests went wild and the police intervened in a in a rough way this is the situation but also some opposition figures are showing up in those protests the government is saying that it is being highly highly politicized where this these protests are going to go it is still unknown will it and by a compromise from both sides or will it turn out to be like the gears of protests that took place in 2013 it is still unknown but i must say that the government is trying to take measures to avoid any kind of protests that that happened in 2013 cinema thank you very much cinema pursue there in istanbul. the police in india have set up concrete barriers and late reason was to stop protesting farmers from entering new delhi tens of thousands of farmers have demonstrated for months now

demanding the government withdraw new agricultural laws. a court in pakistan has ordered the man who's been on through for 18 years to be used to a safe house he was recently acquitted of the 2002 murder of the us journalist daniel pearl. chief received the death penalty for involvement in the beheading he's always denied it despite his previous conviction pearl's family and the white house in washington have expressed outrage come a lighter is following the story for us from islamabad. the court had ordered for the removal of omar shaykh immediately from the dead carried to a more comfortable and weimann perhaps and a barrack and then within 2 days could be moved into i say proud where he will be allowed to meet his family he is not yet free completely because the terms of shaikh. really really been known after in

a written order natured by the coughlan however right now accorded herring the appeal filed by the government. against the acquittal of former shake it turned out to be remembered that one of the kid leaders of al qaeda the number 3 college mohammad had confessed to taking part in that beheading directly that day it was not able to prove its case the court nor characters fired with the proof that was given to the court and therefore had now decided to all go or listen to their review predation decide ideas should be delayed but under strict security he will not be a free man it is a step in that direction but did not completely free yet. in the philippines the supreme court is hearing arguments against a controversial antiterrorism law the measure was signed by the president rodrigo to turkey in july and to since become the most contested lot of his presidency the

government says it will increase security across the country but opponents fear it's designed to silence dissidents and limit freedom of speech our correspondent jim allotting duggan has more now from the supreme court in manila. you've been supporters of the philippine military lobbyist those who have been saying it's legal appeal to the public to understand that this law and the other fight this fight restrictions on the grounds of you know public gatherings we've seen members . of different human rights organizations actually protesting outside the supreme court calling this out laws just calling in and they say that this will further diminish you know this every ever narrowing space of human rights also not only because oral arguments by the supreme courts as it's a rare at this point because of the sheer docket of pending cases in court but also because of the number of petitioners who submitted their petitions asking the

supreme court to junk this since last year now this $37.00 petitioners were represented by 13 lawyers today and in the coming weeks they're expected to be interpreted by court magistrates together with the government solicitor general. no in december argentina became the biggest latin american country to legalize abortion but access to that procedure remains difficult especially in conservative provinces to reason has more from when osiris. already under pressure from 19 argentinos hospitals are now having to adapt again abortion has just become legal in argentina dr while the sun says he has seen many women affected by botched abortions and is happy times has started to change in the years. in the past 2 days since the law was implemented we have had 8 requests to terminate pregnancies we are trying to move as fast as we can as we have

a pandemic and we are trying to minimalize the presence of patients in the hospital . i it's a major revolution in this overwhelmingly catholic country in december the senate voted in favor of legalizing abortion women rights groups have been arguing for years that thousands of illegal abortions already happen annually and they pose a major threat for women thousands of them end up in hospital because of complications but now women can have a free and safe abortion in a public hospital. where company women a lot we try to make it easy for them without too much crying we try to keep them away from obstetrics and but yet trix we have other female doctors that come here to be with them we're ready for this next step. doctors here say many of the women who come already have children and cannot afford to have another one venue law says that a woman can have an abortion after 14 weeks of pregnancy the province of want to hide it is distributing this booklet that explains hospitals how to proceed when

a woman comes and requests and i wash and this says that they have up to 10 days to interrupt the pregnancy timing is crucial until now abortion was only legal in argentina in case of rape or if a woman's life was at risk and that's why in many conservative areas in the country authorities postpone legal abortions for months forcing women to deliver their babies. has been covering women rights issues for years she says political will is crucial if that won't get out of. the implementation is very clear and i think the conservative fundamentalist sectors fault want to see the implementation across the country they will try to do what they can to stop it that's where it is important the political and political commitment to guarantee the law is implemented and it's not just on paper. prior to the passage of the new law precedent of the

forum and the said broad legalization of abortion was a matter of public health that needed to be addressed and that's why hospitals in the country now see themselves as essential to help the government in their next step toward securing abortion rights nationwide. when a site is. still to come here on the news there are calls to. experiences but even some residents. will hear from. ready for their 1st few. appearances on home soil.

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the mayor of amsterdam wants to ban foreigners from visiting the city's famous coffee shops to buy cannabis the move could have a big impact on tourism but some residents say that's not a bad thing that boston reports from amsterdam. amsterdam's most famous product carefully weighed and packaged the city's $166.00 coffee shops selling cannabis are all worldwide attraction research has shown that 60 percent of tourists come specifically to visit one of them and that includes international artists and celebrities mike tyson long time ago and even dennis hopper back in the day and got stoned here they all got started in the greenhouse and. they had a really good time in amsterdam but they're not allowed to come in the future anymore no so that's going to be very difficult of. snow dog richard branson are

coming here and you have to refuse them entry to limit illegal trade in drugs the netherlands opened its 1st coffee shop in the early 1970 s. where a small amount of cannabis could be bought and consumed this unique service quickly attracted customers you're very proud of the system that we've had for 40 years and the whole system basically is based on the fact that everyone is welcome and everybody can come to the coffee shop and buy their kind of base in a safe way the old city center of amsterdam is usually packed with thousands of tourists and the smell of cannabis is never far away since the lockdown this is how the dutch capital looks like local residents say they can finally sleep this shows that tourism was out of control all of us left in the old city center for 40 years together with other residents he started a campaign to make the city less noisy and more livable it's kind of

a silly idea that people who smoke pot don't do any harm or so of course if you're 5 young people from france or belgium or wherever you come from in a car and you're excited to go to amsterdam you buy your fault you buy your 6 pack of beer in the supermarkets and you go or hang around or whatever whatever you like coffee shop owners and customers blame alcohol consumption rather than cannabis for the nuisance cost and they believe the mayor's move to ban foreigners will lead to more illegal street trait. they are there ways of getting it and i feel like that's what people are going to going to try to do right because as i said i'm sorry i missed more than just smoking it is just part of it definitely important important part is all you know. if i can say that. the mayor says this does not mean she wants to change the image of amsterdam as a city known for its freedom barca must last years we don't want to be that city

where masses of young irish and london use come to get drunk and stoned during their holiday that is not the kind of freedom we want international fame for all we want to be famous for our freedom of conscience the mayor hopes that by imposing more restrictions they'll be less coffee shops so it will be easier to legalize them because while it's legal to buy chemists here there are no regulations in the madeline's for those who supply it that fast and al-jazeera amsterdam. sports news is our thanks a lot while there's lots of covert pandemic stories and we saw it would take him pics that peter mentioned earlier because the game's chief organizer is insisting it will go ahead in july regardless of the pandemic situation and that people should be asking how to proceed with the games rather than a full go ahead in the 1st place the games organizers are rolling out what they're called a pearl a book this week a step by step safety rule book on how to ensure the safety of the 15000 athletes and numerous coaches judges media and v.i.p.'s attending that's all just by public

skepticism in japan with covert 19 restrictions extended for another month in the capital and other regions. athletes are under mentally challenging conditions asking themselves if it's ok to join the olympics the government needs to address such concerns from the athletes will south africa's cricket board say they're extremely disappointed by australia's decision to pull out of the country at such short notice australia have opted out of travelling to face the protests saying it's an on except for health risk is the 2nd to south africa to be cooled off in recent months since late last year the country has been dealing with a more transmissible variant of the virus one of cricket south africa's directors graeme smith thinks australia's concerns are on founded and says of the country has been working hard to ensure player safety. well european football clubs continue to feel the strain also of the pandemic with john you transfer spending down and

considering english premier league clubs spent around $115000000.00 on new players now that's 64 percent less than this time last year and the least that has been spent since 2012 owners in the other main european leagues look for younger talent rather than risking huge transfer fees a seam struggle financially when suspending in italy was down 63 percent while the checkbooks remained firmly closed in germany france as well as spain and fees as president has insisted that health workers and people at high risk of contracting kovan 19 should be getting vaccines and not borders johnny in france you know says corona virus will be defeated before the start of next year's world cup in qatar we will have full stadiums we must have this. probably will be defeated by then. and or we will have to learn to live. with it but if in

2 years from now we are not there yet then i think we all have a bigger problem than the world cup stadiums will be at 30 percent capacity when the fifa club world cup kicks off on thursday here in cats as domestic champions and to have a making their 1st appearance in such a high profile tournament so how much one of their star players. qatar is hosting the club world cup for the 2nd time 4 of the world's continental champions are in the mix and so are carter's domestic champions and the high they both several of the country's top players including and well as i lead the striker who scored a record mongols of qatar became asian champions in 2019 as you go to break. out in a side put it out again and this is going to be a great experience for us it's like a mini world cup and i hope that i can help my team as much as possible. eilean his

international team mates have a busy year ahead qatar have been invited to play ask guests in south america's top tournament the corporate america and the european walkup qualifies as well as they look to sharpen their skills ahead of the biggest event of all the 2022 world cup on home soil. we have a lot of competitions and it's a lot of pressure but all the tournament that we play and give us great experience will be playing against big teams that usually qualify for world cups like portugal but it's a great challenge for us which we need in order to develop 4 of cutters woke up stadiums are already fully operational with more set to open later this year and the country's also preparing to host the 1st ever fifa arab cup in the van and december with 22 nations taken part. got that had the law lemme pick it

appeared at the catch our was challenging the world with its amazing football facilities if you take a look at the stadium for example with its unique architecture it's something that makes us really proud as it represents us who we are our culture and traditions we're not only representing cata but we're representing all arab countries and in 2022 we want them to participate in this once in a lifetime opportunity for the middle east and what you. are up against africa's continental champions and the on thursday and egyptian team who are themselves well supported in qatar. that will will go through to face european giants by munich in the semifinals sun hamlisch i'll just. be a game between the detroit and phoned off to the pistons didn't have enough players to field a team because of coven 1000 contact tracing elsewhere the lakers beat the atlanta

hawks but the game was overshadowed with lakers star le bron james involved in a heated exchange with an atlanta fun you know a back and forth between 2 grown men. you know we said ok he said his piece i said my piece and then we jumped into. their business. but i don't think there are usually. but they matter how the truth maybe in the. game is going to buy the game more so if the referees do. so useful for me now more later sorry thanks very much when we come back we'll take a live update from out of magic editor at the u.n. security council having a big meeting there about me in mobile keep across all the developments in a couple of moments we've seen that.

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