it continues to spread will african nations manage to secure that 19 vaccines african union leaders will also try to find peaceful resolutions to heightened regional tensions in ethiopia goes on and so manja the annual african union summit on al-jazeera. this is al jazeera. and who are in taylor this is the al jazeera news hour live from london coming up. heavy security on the streets of moscow as kremlin critic and explain avani is sentenced to 3 and a half years in prison for violating his parole. protests ring out in yang gone against me in law's military coup. she is now back under

house arrest. britain battles a covert variant that's mutated again but there's more encouraging vaccine news in both the u.k. and russia. and after a successful test launch a giant rocket space x. hopes will one day go to mars explode on landing. on side of us i'll have all the sports we'll hear from one of capsules biggest football stars and why is that he is this team to hail gets ready for their fast speed club while comp appearance on home soil. begin in russia where a court has jailed a prominent putin critic alex in a valley for violating parole while he was recovering in germany from being

poisoned he's been given a 3 and a half year sentence but his lawyer says he'll serve 2 years and 8 months because of time spent on the house arrest in court a defiant mocked russia's president saying he would go down in history as putin the underwear poison while out in the streets there was heavy security and more than 500 people arrested challenger reports. once again alexina valley is paying a high price for his criticism of the kremlin as a court sentenced him to $3.00 and a half years the judge found the valley guilty of breaking probation failing to report to russian police over an embezzlement charge the fact he was in hospital in berlin was not accepted the valley was there recovering from nerve agent poisoning he alleges was carried out by the russian state the kremlin critic drew a heart on the glass in court for his wife and asked supporters to protest over.

the aim of this hearing is disco a great number of people it works this way joel want to scare millions. i hope that this hearing will be interpreted by people as a signal that they have to be more scared it's not a demonstration of power the national guards of russia this cage they are a demonstration of weakness you can't jail hundreds of thousands and millions like this from outside the court a major show of force from police rounding up and detaining the valley supporters who call not only for his release but for the release of russia from putin's rule why do you fall in this pretty deal this is total lawlessness you can think whatever you want about alexina valmy as a politician but the problem is that if such high profile people can be arrested in a live television broadcast without a reason it means that people like you and i are known people they can do whatever they want to us at the margin of the seats are these trial is a sham like many other trials in russia this is

a politically motivated case he was poisoned in russia that crime is not under investigation he returned to russia and they have jailed him straight away everything these going on has nothing to do with justice. after days of nationwide rallies detention centers are overflowing and despite the threat of new sanctions from the west the kremlin has shrugged off criticism from the u.s. in europe and continues to deny that the valley was. ever poisoned you thought you'd still not have an answer for on what basis the swedish military conclusion that mr von lee was poisoned by a. group in the last 10 years in the valley has been jailed more than 10 times many working for his anti corruption network have now been detained and his spokeswoman is under house arrest but his lawyers promise to appeal against his verdict while he asks people in and outside russia to continue putting pressure on putin charlie angela. i don't regard her outside the court where she said police have been

cracking down on an extended around the supporters well today security was around the court building behind me but also the surrounding area and they were not letting anyone in who doesn't believe here they were also detaining people that were coming straight out of the metro station so preventing any kind of fraud as they were detaining people for looking suspicious you know signs that they might be protesting for. now the moment the verdict came in so seized the ones that are still and it's all not detained they called for his supporters to come to the center of moscow the center of moscow is now completely sealed actually the police started gathering there hours before the verdict was announced and they now shut it down completely some people that tried to approach

the appointed spot which is a very close to the kremlin it's a square that is a joint meant to the red square they started detaining these people the same situation is in another city of russia the city where from beater's birth where there is also a hundreds of police in gauged in preventing any kind of protest happening tonight . i was swift international condemnation of the sentencing us secretary of state antony blinken called for the immediate and unconditional release of novelli and his supporters u.k. foreign secretary dominic robb also called finale's release saying today's perverse ruling targeting the victims of a poisoning rather than those responsible shows russia is failing to meet the most basic commitments expected of any responsible member of the international community . while russia's foreign ministry has rejected to those calls as divorced from reality tell you the west not to meddle in its sovereign affairs yet i girl is

a research fellow at the institute of modern russia she joins me now from new york by skype thanks very much for being with us so that international condemnation do you think that it will just be brushed off by russia in future unfortunately i think that that's the way it seems you know international support for and of i mean condemnation of what's happened to him sort of plays into the kremlin propaganda nearer to it that he is in fact a foreign agent or a plant from the cia or something of that sort and how worried is putin and the government about the scale of protests that have been as a result of this court case well i think there's there's been a lot of protests in russia over the years and it's sort of a misnomer that protests don't happen in russia they do what makes these protests different is the actual the regime response that we've seen to them there's almost 700 people arrested today there were 5500 people arrested on sunday there were 4000

people arrest the weekend before then so this is a kind of response we haven't seen before and it certainly seems like the regime is taking these protests very very seriously and in reality how much of it or how serious a threat does no only pose to putin. well that's sort of difficult to tell we know that his supporter his name recognition definitely is growing in russia but it's still at a pretty low level something like 20 percent of people say in surveys that they know of him and his work fewer people approve of what he's doing in fact somewhat disappointingly a little out of center an independent police to polling place did and did a survey after he was poisoned that showed that. most russians believe that the poisoning was a fake or somehow was engineered by the army himself so it's hard to judge what kind of support he actually has and russia but certainly his name recognition has grown and this video that he produced. out was that's out over 100000000000 views

on you tube is this part of that growth and what you expect in terms of the momentum of the protests if he does go back to jail assuming the appeal doesn't work out for him what then for the present protest movement well it's i mean it's hard to maintain a protest movement without the most kind of charismatic charismatic opposition leader that there is russia however we've seen in other places in russia like up our us in the far east there and protests there since july of this year after their governor was removed and arrested so russians are capable of maintaining a long protests and the other important part here is that the by now has a network of regional offices all across russia that operate to kind of set up these protests and that the that's also part an important part of all of this that those offices could probably operate independently of the fighting in terms of the international community but aside from the condemnation that we've had today what

kind of measures do you think we might expect and what difference would those make . well the line of steam and the empty corruption foundation that hugh grant wrote a letter to president biden asking for certain sanctions personal sanctions to be implemented and this is just a list of over 20 people for those sanctions those included all of our exposed included you know the head of the f.s.b. other government officials and people critical to r.t. russia today and other kind of propaganda outlets. and so i mean it's possible that those those thanks will be put in planes but russia is heavily sanctioned as it is both sort of personal sanctions industry sanctions it's prevented from accessing capital markets in europe and in america so you know those sanctions have been in place and the annexation of crimea 24 teams that difficult to see how much more can

be done on that front you know to go sky thank you very much indeed for to discharge their thank you thank you now another high profile court case also got underway in moscow yes businessmen michael calvey is facing fraud charges he was arrested in 2019 accused of embezzling millions of dollars from a russian bank his arrest stems from a dispute with businessman of a to c n n president putin has publicly supported calvey is one of the biggest private foreign investors in russia is firm bringing in almost 4 $1000000000.00 in capital several russian business leaders have denounced the case saying it threatens foreign investment there residents of 1000000 miles largest city of display the anger at the military coup that ousted says she's government she's been moved into house arrest while the people of the country try to make sense of life under the new regime really fell reports from yangon. a day after a coup in myanmar soldiers on the street

a stark reminder of the new military regime. in yangon banks and shops reopened as the city seemed to be quietly returning to normal but the mood among the people here seemed low as they digested what had happened. i knew when i heard the news i couldn't believe it i'm sad i'm sad for the people i feel pain in my heart i think people are going to face trouble i would. rather i can't even eat or sleep we are not strong enough to do something back to them we don't have power they seize the power because they have guns we hear nothing. on monday the military detains to factor leader aung san suu kyi and other prominent political figures since the arrests some regional ministers and lawmakers have been released. in a country where she and her and l.t. party remain extremely popular winning a landslide victory in november elections this coup will undoubtedly be unwanted by

many but always people are men and women. even children don't want to return to military rule you know and they hate even the thought of it in the very founder of it or didn't want it but what can they do. the n l d party has released a statement tribute to tang's sansa chief calling for the people to protest against the military's actions. all the voters who gave their back into his in the 2020 general election should follow old son through cheese instructions to carry out civil disobedience. that call has been widely shared across social media here on the streets of yangon it seems like business as usual but although it's company now voices of dissent are starting to be happy. the n l d is calling for the immediate release of those who have been arrested a party spokesperson says suchi is in good health. and as the sun goes

down the sons of resistance can be heard in the city. people striking pans and drums from their balconies and sound in their car hands all in protest against the military coup alley file young gone al jazeera. diplomatic editor james bases at the united nations which met earlier to discuss the coup. the u.n. security council met in closed session but they couldn't agree a statement condemning what's happened in myanmar in recent days they heard from the u.n. special envoy christina shriner berg and she told them that on sun suit she had been moved from the place that she's been detained in to house arrest the spokesperson for the u.n. secretary general though said that was still on acceptable and as a 1st step all detainees needed to be released the special envoy said that given the apparent commitment by the military to safeguard the rule of law following the

november 8th elections these turn of events was surprising and shocking the current president of the security council the british ambassador said that discussions will continue in the coming days there's been widespread concern among and across the international community i heard those concerns very clearly among my colleagues this morning and we welcome the role of regional partners including s.c.n. to resolve this crisis the key to the next steps on myanmar depend on one permanent member of the u.n. security council china in the meeting i'm told to the chinese representative was playing for time and diplomats say china has not yet shown its hand. and aerobic since truck unwittingly captured the crew in progress. then way off in streams workout videos from the road leading to me and mass parliament building but her

latest routine has gone viral as the backdrop showed a military convoy moving in to seize power on her arms to electronic beat the teachers seemingly oblivious to the moment of history unfolding the hunter. coming up on this news hour from london captain tom moore the 100 year old war veteran who raised $44000000.00 for britain's health service has died after contracting clearly 90. a real life whodunit the world health organization is detective mission to the birthplace of the pandemic. and the liverpool boss is wishing for a miracle we'll tell you why in. sputnik the vaccine has been found to be nearly 92 percent effective in protecting against code 19 that's according to peer reviewed results from its stage 3 trial published

by international medical journal the lancet it's also been found to be safe and offer complete protection against hospitalization and death a vaccine initially met with some skepticism after it was rolled out in a number of countries before final trial data was released it's already been approved by 15 countries including argentina hungary and the united arab emirates. from pollution and according to the results obtained and published in this article it is arguable that to date the sputnik v. vaccine is the safest of all drugs that have gotten widespread use in civilian circulation or the trial of this vaccine showed no serious complications. a new study has found the oxford astra zeneca vaccine remains effective for longer than previously thought trial research shows 76 percent efficacy against infection but 3 months after a single dose it was also better at fighting the virus when a 2nd dose was given when 12 weeks after the 1st comes on the same day as the

french authorities approved its use but only for people under 65 it's the latest carry out imposed on the vaccine by an e.u. member due to what they say is a lack of data on older people aside to say a coded 19 variant discovered in the u.k. has further mutated in a way that could help evade vaccines tests show the changes a similar to those seen in the more contagious south african and brazil variants the u.k.'s tightening measures to control the spread of the new strains with urgent testing in parts of the country and tougher travel restrictions planned the government is also working with pharmaceutical companies to identify whether vaccines need to be modified to tackle the variant very huge amount of work with the scientists and the pharmaceutical industry to to develop more modified vaccines should they be necessary and we're also monitoring the results of work to

understand the intricacies of the existing vaccines against the variants of concern . when you go to sun is a clinical epidemiologist and senior lecturer at queen mary university of london she joins us now by skype from london thanks very much for being with us so that phrase mutations of concern was what is the big worry here. i think the big worry is that we're seeing really in some lodging in different parts of the world with mutations that make them more transmissible in some cases and in some cases give them some art of escape from antibodies directed towards penis made ends which raise concerns about back to ineffective nests in places where these variants have become very common and what we're seeing in different parts of the world is this sort of convergence towards the same adaptations of the virus suggesting that these confers and so on i did that just a virus so i mean how quickly can the current vaccine that have been approved be modified what's the threshold that you need to reach in order to get to the point

that he right now we need to modify. i think many madman factions are already working on what if i go back to target is new radians because that the data from the norm back in the johnson and johnson trial have been particularly concerning suggesting that effectiveness has been know in south africa where this particular baby and is dominant a bed 2 in the u.k. and the u.s. where it's not dominant as of now. while it is rather straightforward to actually update the vaccine in terms of you know the chemical manufacturing of course it requires testing about addition in participants and much deeper studies and in reality which can take months so it's ready body we're going to protect our senior sources and it's important to say now that even though these babies can't get the new under sponsored extend these vaccines as to highly effective even in people infected by these plants although potentially less than the papers and this being this some new information about the sputnik the vaccine the sort of. problems that

published in the lancet tell us why that's significant. it is really significant because it's really good to see this sort of transparency around digital vaccines and you know a due diligence has been done the protocol has been followed and it's made clear that there's effective nest at very high levels of effectiveness 91 percent in preventing disease it's a safe fact that we don't that effect that effectiveness also is across all age groups including elderly people who are currently being vaccinated and i think it's also a sign to many other countries who are using vaccines quite extensively to actually release those details so that we can build public trust in this and increase vaccine uptake and this vaccine is getting made available to many different parts of the world just about the the news about the oxford dusters anika vaccine but about the fact that it's does appear to protect in the in the in the form of a single dose for several months i mean i guess that's actually very important work

particularly given the increased it was in the ads that are being used in the u.k. but i do want to caution that a lot of that data is based on people would have been 18 and 55 years so we still don't have details aren't the impact of these labs on people who are order and that detail would be very very useful in understanding the impact of this increase do was in the ad within the u.k. are we starting to get an a picture of whether these vaccines can actually have an impact on transmission which was previously or certainly wasn't clear previously. i don't think we have a very clear date on that most of the studies that have been done so focused on disease and the impact on transmission is likely to be lower than the impact of disease we don't know what this is as of yet the initial astra zeneca trial reported on this one extent but there was so much uncertainty about the estimate that it was very hard to see what this new bag would be my guess is that it will take several months before we have a much clearer understanding of this to do to sunny thank you very much indeed for

don't dislike you. now 100 year old british war veteran captain to tom moore has died in hospital after testing positive for 19 so tom raised millions of dollars for the u.k. health service by walking laps of his garden in last year's knockdown the u.k. prime minister described him as a national hero shot at best looks back at his life. he inspired a nation during a difficult time captain told more fundraising heroes. in april 2020 of an obscure retired british army captain captured hearts when he attempted to walk $100.00 lefts of his garden at the time of his 100th birthday he wanted to raise $1500.00 for the national health service and state he raced 43000000 and his story went global i'm delighted the word there for the research of all. sources warsaw

has turned into this enormous sum of the cause. we were delighted with what most mothers put such a good cause. his optimism was contagious his catch phrase you never walk alone became a number one hit. a book about his life followers and a film is in the making. queen elizabeth came out of lockdown to give him a knighthood and he entered the guinness book of world records what can you do. i think. or was. who would have you talk to bob ill optimistic because they're so good and mincing. captain tom served in india and burma during the 2nd world war. he likened the fight against

covert to a battle with doctors and nurses on the front line the prime minister. to him captain tom moore was a hero in the truest sense of the word in the dark days of the 2nd world war he fought for freedom and in the face of this country's deepest postwar crises he united us all he became not just a national inspiration but a beacon of hope for the world. despite being prioritise for vaccination he developed pneumonia before he could be protected against the virus an emblem of hope during the pandemic he'll be mauled by an action. the world health organization is rejecting criticism of its investigation into the origins of covert 19 in the chinese city of will happen on monday the u.s. secretary of state said china was falling short in providing adequate access to the

scientists on the ground but a new has this report from beijing. on the trail of a detective story that's how the world health organization has described its mission to uncover the origins of the pandemic in 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 covered 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 groupon 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 of 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 rouhani medical workers as heroes and to a cold change storage facility. state media he 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 us then you make what you can do to make the us sunder for disease control's coronavirus and the bodies were identified there in december 29th team we hope like china the us we also take positive cooperative in pursuing the origin of the virus and the uveitis. to america the w.h.o. says all hypotheses are on the table but the trip has been tightly controlled the team of mentors with expertise in food safety and veterinary science to speak some

of the 1st quarter virus patients and visit we institute of. that's where dangerous pathogens including coronaviruses would be studied the w.h.o. mission to work on 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 asked the international community to be patient until voice any cynicism about their investigation. al-jazeera thinking. there's lots more still to come this hour including donald trump's lawyers say the senate has no authority to try him or hear their argument for plate. is amsterdam going to pot watch travel plans to the famed cannabis coffee shops soon go up in smoke. and the australian open champion is getting fired up for his title defense tennis action coming up in sports.

the cold air is still pretty stubborn stuck up in the northeast of of europe particularly scandinavia but against it is this relentless atlantic push the is getting milder and mild windy and wet is very typical weather i have to say for this part of winter that's the case for some parts of france and germany low countries in fact as in flood warnings out for france for a couple days in germany at the moment but this all comes up against a cold eastley breeze this line here through northern germany through back to scotland is going to be a role one feel pretty horrible in complete contrast to what's happening down in italy for example a good part of the southeast of europe and even spain and portugal where temperatures are actually rising so here's a contrast hamburg's hanging around back 0 plus one with either a cold breeze or no breeze and snow and overcast conditions pretty much all the

time for the next 3 days now as you can see there's a line of this that was buckles up through the north sea give some for denmark and still keep strong snow into well poland and the baltics and then it goes eastwards as you see not far from kiev but look at rome and here's the forecast for right for thursday and friday and saturday might be a big fat around even a murky morning but it's warm the average is 30 new got 19 or 20. as information on the government's response is to convert 19 across the world images so to as a deeply disturbing question. people in power investigates allegations of systemic discrimination against pandemics disabled victims and asked has there been a shameful failure to protect some of the world's most vulnerable citizens.

coverage disabled victims part one on a just. when the news breaks the next few days out crucial security forces have been deployed to hit me in hot spots like this one when people need to be. have to be fulfilled by the government and then if all the problems leave too but the state . al-jazeera has teams on the ground this is the insurrection that president trump is accused of fueling to bring blue documentaries and light news. the all.

around of the top stories there are russian opposition leader alex has been sentenced to 3 and a half years in prison he breached parole terms for a previous conviction because he was in germany for treatment after a nerve agent poisoning 750 people have been arrested in moscow as protests followed the court's decision. have been public displays against the military coup in me in march with people in yon go on banging pots in anger against the overthrow of elected leader aung san suu kyi she's been moved into house arrest. and the russian made sputnik the vaccine has been found to be nearly 92 percent effective in protecting its covert 19 at the same time a new study shows the british astra zeneca jab remains effective for 3 months after single dose. the good news about vaccines in the richer countries rings hollow in less wealthy countries across africa just a few dozen people have been protected so the answer for now is to find existing drugs that can treat coded one candidate is in the mek to reports from all over the

world about its effectiveness mean it's a huge public demand even though it's normally found on farms turned a whole reports ivermectin is best known for treating parasites in livestock and in human form as a treatment for skin conditions like scabies it's been taken safely by billions of people trials conducted across the developing world who've also revealed ivermectin to be an effective treatment for covert 19 reducing symptoms cutting mortality by up to 75 percent and even inhibiting transmission. in parts of india it's been credited with bringing coded 1000 infections down to manageable levels while authorities in utah pradesh have announced they'll provide a protective dose to every devote tending the market mela festival on the banks of the ganges river next year for countries like the wonder drug because it has a long history in asia and africa many of the countries where obviously. apart from

cannot be at home for a long time they have to go for work and they have to cure that and this is where it's you and that's what a bill. less than $2.00 full course a group of doctors in the united states collating data from studies like dr comes in bangladesh now believe i've a mic tin should be put to immediate global use it works not only in prevention early treatment but it even works late fees in the hospital even patients on ventilators have shown improvement when they get ever having met him and at that point it's not the virus replicating it's all severe inflammation so when i say and i what i've said to colleagues and what we believe in my group is that if you were going to design a drug for all the phases and the path and physiology of course every actor would be the drug the wealth of data that exists all ivermectin has yet encouraged many rich world medical regulators to act in part because the focus here has been so

squarely on vaccine development and in part because of an apparent reluctance to accept low budget developing world data but as the virus mutates into more lethal strains and there's concerns grow that vaccines alone may not be the long term answer so interest is building in ivermectin with its potential to be both prevention and cure so much so that research is of oxford university a conducting a trial of their own although we are hopeful that vaccines are going to do what's promised the data is not very reassuring that they're actually going to achieve a. everything that they're setting how to achieve but if they don't we'll have another tool as as a backup and as one that we can deploy now while waiting for the vaccines for it there's a huge portion of the world which don't have anything available to protect them or treat them after intense lobbying by health care professionals slovakia this week became the 1st e.u. country to approve the use of 5 of make as

a treatment for covert 19 why the use may not be far behind join a whole al jazeera both sides in the impeachment case against former u.s. president donald trump have submitted their briefings to the senate trumps legal team says the senate lacks the authority to try him now he's no longer president or to stop him running again the democrats who drafted the impeachment charges have accused him of offending everything the constitution stands for she has a chance is following events for us in washington d.c. she have to ask more about the document that the democrats have filed. their argument is that what we saw here on capitol hill on january the 6th was the culmination of a campaign by a dog to pursue power out all costs a campaign that began even before the election he was already priming his supporters to not accept potentially the results of the election following the election he didn't receive the results he wanted he began trying to overturn those results and failed as

a result though he summoned his supporters to the capital according to democratic house managers may use a very memorable phrase that he someone demob to washington exhorted them into a frenzy and aimed them like a looted cannon down pennsylvania avenue and we saw the riot here on capitol hill as a result as far as the the defense argument that the unconstitutional to impeach a former president the democrats say that cannot to be true because the constitution says a president has to be held accountable from the 1st day of his presidency to the last day of his presidency there can't be a january exception that is you can't impeach a president in january because in a few weeks they're going to be handing over power anyway because if there was such an exception then surely other leaders would be encouraged to try to hold on to power in january as well because they would be held accountable by congress so that's the that's the argument from the democrat house motivations and terms team is responding to these allegations well what do they say. and as you mentioned the

main argument is it's unconstitutional the constitutional provision for impeachment requires that a person actually hold office to be impeached since the 45th president president doesn't hold office any longer therefore he can't be impeached they also address the this idea of incitement to insurrection and they say that it's true donald trump was making a very impassioned case about what he felt was a stolen election but that is his right he believes it's the election most of them and the 1st amendment in the constitution protects his freedom of speech to just say what he wants if he feels that the elections then he should be allowed to say it and even the comments that have been taken out it been used by the democrats to suggest he was he was inciting insurrection are simply not true when trump says if you don't fight like hell you're not going to have a country anymore he's talking about the possibility of election fraud making

democracy meaningless he's not asking his followers to storm capitol hill so the most important thing is they're not for that particular argument is is especially political speech unpopular speech cannot cannot be that cannot have political retribution. as a result of it basically and that's key in the constitution and as things stand there sort of at least with the the argument of this whole process is unconstitutional trump is on safe ground $45.00 republican senators already said they agree that the whole process is unconstitutional the democrats need 17 services and i'm going to get them get them yet she have a taxi thank you very much. in the next half hour u.s. president joe biden is due to sign 3 executive orders aimed at reversing donald trump's hard line against immigration one of the orders will establish a task force to reunite hundreds of children separated from their families and the trumps 0 tolerance policy among other things the 2nd order would review but not cancel the last administration's remain in mexico policy which is that tens of

thousands of people living in poor conditions in mexico as the case is a processed in the u.s. immigration courts the 3rd order is designed to streamline the naturalization process reynolds has more on the children still separated from their families. the 0 tolerance policy is gone but the damage remains from one of the trumpet ministrations most controversial and widely condemned immigration actions the deliberate separation of children from their parents at the border we have. in a way we will not fully understand an entire generation of children. thousands of them. there is no clear remedy right now at a minimum more than $5500.00 children were separated from their parents beginning in 2017. recordings of children crying emerged and helped lead to

a public outcry and he's the abandonment of the policy but approximately 600 children still have not been you reunited according to a lawsuit filed by the american civil liberties union i think it really was a matter of just didn't care all they care about is taking this order away with no plan in place to track or even. be reunited in most cases parents were deported to their home countries in mexico or central america and the children put into foster care some of the younger kids of. and their parents as the years passed by others are deeply traumatized but i think they were. so angry resentful at their parents asking their parents can you love me enough to keep. me away the family separation policy was deliberately planned to deter migrants if you are some ongoing trial then we will

prosecute you the natural right to be separated from you and for. the department of homeland security inspector general's report found the border patrol and immigration officials were unprepared for the 0 tolerance policy and kept unreliable and incomplete data on children and parents immigration advocates hope president joe biden's task force on family separations succeeds in reuniting the remaining parents and children but they say those families deserve more if the commission were to the united states to rejoin their sort of the united states and then to get the legal status and create some type of restitution advocates also want a full investigation and strict policies to ensure that the cruelty at the border never happens again rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles it is still in

political deadlock after talks to revive the ruling coalition passed a deadline with no agreement. in rome failed to patch up differences over the handling of the pandemic and its effect on the economy former prime minister mateo that's anzhi pulled out of the coalition last month bringing down the government to choose if they can take president joe montana is running out of options and could now install a caretaker government and call an early election. tourists to visit amsterdam when travel restrictions are finally lifted may not be able to visit its famous coffee shops to buy cannabis the mare of the dutch city says she wants to ban foreigners from the cafes to tackle antisocial behavior and move the city up market step press 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 they got stoned here they all got stoned 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 we'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 try to do right because as i said i'm saddam is more than

just smoking it is just part of it definitely important important part is all yeah 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 far from us. we don't want to be that city where masses of young irish and london youth come to get drunk and stoned during their holiday that is not the kind of freedom we want international fame for 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. and then his test flight of the space x. reusable rocket has once again ended with a crash. starship s. and 9 rockets mission was successful watch up until the very final moments when it came in too fast.

as the 2nd time the revolutionary rocket has crashed on landing it had a similar result in december space x. found out you don't musk eventually hopes to use it for manned missions to mars under she has more on how it's all supposed to work. built by a private company space x. starship is designed to transport people deeper into space than ever before and possibly take 100 people at a time to mars the 1st high altitude test flight of the starship prototype was carried out last month stunning onlookers with a landing put maneuver that until that point had never been done. the reasonable spacecraft stabilizes itself in a controlled fall before landing which didn't go so well the 1st time around. test vehicles are built to fail so that later versions don't data from test flights

are used to make improvements to the production line in texas along the us mexican border the company's founder elon musk says they'll go through around 20 prototypes before it's operational starship will eventually tower 120 meters in the sky atop what's called a super heavy rocket more powerful than the saturn 5 used for the apollo missions to the moon and it will launch from the sea. space x. recently purchased to decommission oil rigs for 3 and a half $1000000.00 each and is converting them into floating spaceports. musk says 1000 starships will be needed to build a city on mars and he's committing billions from his personal wealth to finance it do you want a future where we become a space bring civilization and are in many worlds and out there among the stars a whole one where we are forever confined to earth and i say it is the 1st and and i hope you agree with me. fully reusable transportation systems have significantly reduced costs for each launch for humans and cargo multiple ships then stop holding

up a city then making the city bigger and bigger even after defying expectations musk's critics doubt his billions will be enough to finance his dreams a vision that will likely cost trillions of dollars to realize and will depend on future technology not yet invented and or chapell al-jazeera. still ahead this news out find out what sparked this argument between basketball's biggest stock and female fans toss it's a beautiful morning just so i can see with all my fans booing virtually pandemic bush's promise of tony fills a winter prediction online making it a groundhog day with a difference. as

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about his sorrow with the sport. back here are always start right here in doha where stadiums will be at 30 percent capacity when the fifa cup world cup kicks off on thursday half as domestic champions of the hell are making their 1st appearance in such a high profile tournament and someone who will schmidt one of their star players to find out more. qatar is hosting the club world cup for the 2nd time 4 of the world's continental champions are in the mix and saw our cutters domestic champions and the high they both several of the country's top players including and well as the striker who scored a record mine goals of qatar became asian champions in 2019 inch below the break.

i wouldn't put it out i'm going to 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. i'll be in his international team mates have a busy year ahead qatar have been invited to play as guests in south america's top tournament the corporate america and the european walk up 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 is also preparing to host the 1st ever fee for 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 cats are representing all arab countries and in 2022 we want them to participate in this once in a lifetime opportunity for the middle east. are up against africa's continental champions and the on thursday and egyptian team who are themselves well supported in qatar. when l. will go through to face european giants by munich in the semifinals sun hamlisch

i'll just. then for manager you're going cop says a miracle is needed for star defender of van dyck to return from injury and play a part in the reds premier league title defense the 29 year old needed nice surgery after being injured against everton in october since then they will have developed a defensive crisis with a number of their back on also suffering injuries it prompted the club to sign center backs ben davies and us on cab icon deadline day and with the transfer window now closed teams are submitting their squad lists thurmond of the season i think we have space for the thames the best i think you boss on the premier league is the nobody told me that i have to change something. if but if you have space and gems like this then both would be on the list if they are on the list then it's only because we hope for. nearly a miracle. novak djokovic is looking good for the australian open just one week

away the world number one plays his 1st match of the season on tuesday he got a victory for team serbia in the a.t.p. compazine canada's denish up of a lot of in straight sets not long after that he took to the court again to win a doubles match for his country now take care limping organizing committee president insists the games will go ahead regardless of the pandemic situation and that people should be asking how to proceed with the games rather than if it will go ahead in the 1st place games organizers are rolling out what they've called a playbook this week in a step by step safety rulebook on how to ensure the safety of the $15000.00 deaths meets and numerous coaches judges media and v.i.p.'s that are attending despite public skepticism in japan with coded 19 restrictions extended for another month in the capital and other regions the summer games are scheduled to begin july 23rd. one. 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. plans to build a new f one circuit have been scrapped in brazil over environmental concerns we had to janeiro's mayor who took office last month has cancelled the controversial proposal even though it was backed by present day abel sonari environmentalist criticized the plan to build a new international track in the forests and on native land the project would have threatened hundreds of species of some rare plants as well. and a solid bron james was involved in some on court drama on monday joining the l.a. lakers game against the atlanta hawks le bron james involved in a heated exchange with an atlanta fan reference her referee rather halted the action and the woman was ejected from the arena who walks say they will investigate the incident. maybe. you know

a back and forth between 2 roll me in. which. you know we said ok this is it is peace i said not this and then we jumped into. this. but to be. kicked out but the drinks maybe and it could. have been about a game or so it really was. a lot so you sport for now will be more laid back tomorrow thank you very much now if today seems a bit familiar it may be because it's groundhog day in the united states made famous by the 9093 film of the same name this is ceremonies starring the ground home of the tony phil was a bit different from the usual owing to the pandemic with people lost to follow the event online and find those jobs to predict the weather for the next 6 weeks his handlers say he emerged from history's top at dawn so as shadow and decided to work it out for another 6 weeks meaning the country is in for

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