can you just hear a leo. on al-jazeera. al-jazeera . so it's going 10100 hours g.m.t. here on al-jazeera hello i'm kemal santa maria welcome to the news hour ugandan child soldier turned commander of the lord's resistance army is here in the verdicts on 70 war crimes charges also in the news reports of arrests in me and mars the government restrict social media including facebook the red cross says nearly 3 quarters of the world's vaccine doses given out so far have gone to the 50 richest countries and were murdered in the thousands by i saw in iraq years later

the government is holding funeral ceremonies for years even terms and i'm sad how much with all the sporting killing 6 teams from 5 continents are getting ready to take part in this yes club world cup in qatar and strict 19 restrictions. so the international criminal court is delivering its verdict in the case of a former ugandan militia leader after a 4 year trial but this is a trial with a bit of a twist dominic he was part of the lord's resistance army but he himself was abducted by that group at the age of 10 and was forced to become a child soldier and such his lawyers are saying he shouldn't be punished for the acts he committed under duress these pictures from the hague right now and we will

be speaking to our correspondent there a little later 1st a bit of background in this report from catherine soy. john attack on your says her son and parents were killed here in look already in northern uganda by the lords resistance army or air laurie in 2004 it was one of many villages that were attacked by the group and i was in the market when the attack happened it was evening time when they started shooting i ran home and when i got there i found my son dead his body was next to his grandparents dominic when he say to have been the rebel commander in charge of the low quality massacre wrap to 60 people killed the war between l.r.u. rebels and the government began 3 decades ago and is now safe to have shifted into parts of central african republic the democratic republic of congo and south sudan joseph corney formed the group to overthrow president yoweri museveni in uganda and create a state based on his interpretation of the bill because 10 commandments the group's

current political goals are not clear for the didn't know when is charged with 70 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes he says he was abducted by the l r a when he was a 10 year old child going to school in his village of koran he also argues he did not know any better because of his are bringing in the group and devotion to. his relatives told al-jazeera many children were taken by the rebels during those times . and. his family members were praying for him may not get knocked up but in case he is found guilty he is forgiven. when may have been a child soldier but he quickly rose through the ranks and by the time of his capture was the number 4 in command human rights organization says a victim himself this case poses difficult questions on the button of responsibility he should be held accountable for. any crimes that he may have committed as an adult but the fact that he was abducted i think he definitely be

taken into consideration as a mitigating factor because. his situation is so unique by 2004 the air larrie had abducted more than 20000 children killed around 800000 people including those in commemorated in this memorial site and displaced up to 1500000 it was one of africa's longest conflicts and the victims of it like janet are kanya not only one justice but compensation as well catherine saw al-jazeera so the trials happening in the hague and that is where step danson is at the international criminal court i step 4 years leading to this point and just such a a unique sort of case. absolutely in the past hour the judges have been summing up what seems to be this crimes horrific crimes rape mass murder and slaves supposedly committed

by when he was the commander of the al or a it's difficult to listen to these summarizing events and then we will go to the judgment stage so it's believed that this will take a couple of hours and then the charges will decide it for on when it's guilty or not and if he is found guilty just sentencing will be at a later stage this is probably the most morally complicated case the i.c.c. had to deal with because the main question indeed is can a former child soldier be held accountable for the crimes he committed as an adult the prosecutor says yes that's possible because he was an adult when he committed these crimes and even though he is a victim he cannot victimize lot of people and also the question remains why didn't he escape many other child soldiers managed to escape the only escape at a very late stage but the lawyer said he is mentally disabled he is from

a ties he was brainwashed indoctrinated he never had to kep ability to half its own conscience because he was a child when he went into this really bizarre world of joseph koni and he doesn't know anything out this is a very important verdict in the case and for the i.c.c. because the al a was one of the 1st cases they were focusing on it was seen as a big factory went on when it was brought to the hague so the prosecutors are very keen of course on having a conviction but as you say there are so many questions about where this should go and intriguing stuff and we will be back with step dance and later in the day we get a verdict in that case for now we're going to speak to christophe who is a senior lecturer at the university of onto. and an expert witness in the trial of dominic onward and thank you so much for your time christophe it is a case that asks us to and by us i mean else as observers you as

a witness and the judges themselves it asks us to appeal to our sense of morals and there's just such a huge gray area it feels like it's such a huge gray area in this case indeed let's very much the case as was mentioned before many can run he was the abductor thought the child between the ages of 9 and 11 and the i.c.c. in the past was always set that protecting children and child soldiers making sure dose abducting child soldiers should be held accountable and best verdicts and pass judgment that has punished stores who have who have been health responsible for the abduction of child soldiers and now you have this man dominick on grant who was abducted saw it this raises a huge gray area which is difficult to determine in international law but thinks in terms of victims and perpetrators so you have the prosecutor who says who says you can't always remain the victim there is a moment you become

a perpetrator and the chambre are now in its verdict seems to follow that line in that sense are rare dominical ground was abducted and that's terrible but to be are focusing on his actions as an adult and his mid to late twenty's i was 10 years old was in a i mean imagine that being abducted 10 years old forced to be a child soldier you don't know anything else. yeah exactly and that was a deliberate strategy of the l r a they purposefully abducted children because they were more easily brainwashed but this makes somebody can grow in boost at boot as an article mentioned but is poster boy and a nightmare it's his poster boy because they need verdicts he has 70 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity but it's also his nightmare because there's this huge moral gray zone of him being a victim aside from that moral gray zone i believe you've also got the fact that

this is the 1st time there's been an ally or a case that they i say say and also the fact. that they the number of charges and the you know the very very tough charges that have been brought step was mentioning before really there's a lot of pressure on the international criminal court anyway yes exactly so the international criminal court in the past had difficulties in the liver in judgments so here you have too many own ground so the n.r.a. arrest warrants they were the 1st arrest warrants issued by the international criminal court it was against joseph cohen e and against or a commander search. all the other commanders have tried hard to it so there's only joseph cody who remains at large and dominick on ground so when these arrests words were unsealed the bennett prosecutor compass said well be only a matter of for a couple of months it seemed like an easy win at that time joseph truly he was the

symbol of the absolute evil it was presented as an easy one for a nice easy but easy. i see that's a rookie so there is pressure to deliver a yeah can i put you on the spot and ask if you've got an overriding opinion either way. that is the it's a. difficult question for me it's usually complex issue as as well so it's a huge debate between well what we call in social science structured an agency so the prosecutor says well he could have escaped if you will to to the ellery is not different than a drug he could have chosen to escape the defense team says no it's all structured he was a huge pressure within ellery he could not escape so my point of view is that well . the prosecutor definitely should take into account or sort of the chamber should take issues into account that you know during the sculpture aspect it was the

ellery which was your words why did you control over these pointers but what diverted should be. you know a bit juries are well for me personally ok we'll wait to hear what comes on later great to talk to you about kristoff take up thank you thank you very much the pictures on the screen here coming live from the international criminal court in the hague. as dominick unwin as we were talking about is in the dock hearing vertical hearing in fact let's have a listen we'll see if they have sound quality as i think of connie coming on when the scene yeah brigade leadership. abducted between 1st july 2002 and 31st december 2005. 150 years of a northern uganda and forced them to surface unified us as witness p.

31231 voted his illustratively. defection means and instigation into the army starting from 10 has already described children of the age of 15 also ducted to 2 of the 4 charged attacks done it on one of dr children himself. he saw the not as children but as his soldiers as he stated to witness your. quote you call those kids children i call them my soldiers so we are talking about my soldiers unquote. after the abduction those children under venda cruel initiation into the ellery irregularly severely beaten shortly after the auction for the purpose as evidence is stated quote to beat out the civilian. furthermore the some regularity recruits were forced to prove really killed who were forced to it was

total killings shortly after the abduction. for their action children under the age of 15 is intended to create it in to see every gate the aim of using them in hostilities one of doctrine into sinjar brigade the children vacuuming training and fighting skills including the use of firearms recruits were not taught as part of their training to distinguish between civilians and combatants or between civilian objects and military objects trying to lead children under 15 years of age serving as soldiers into young brigade took part in fighting many of them were killed during fighting. all 4 charged attacks children under the age of 15 participated in the facility the judge outlining this intriguing case of dominick on going the international

criminal court as he said the child soldier abducted at the age of 10 who went on himself to adopt children for the lord's resistance army a fascinating case we're having to get a verdict in the next few hours will return to the hague when that happens. in the meantime me and mum and there are reports of more arrests there as the protests against monday's military coup gathered pace social media is being restricted including access to facebook and the un's spoken out sharply against the move away from democracy and the deposed president both face charges and if convicted they won't be able to work in politics again as reporters from andrew chappelle. medical workers walked off the job at yangon general hospital in the middle of a pandemic believing that this moment is too important to stay silent they wore red ribbons the color of young sun sue cheese national league for democracy which is quickly become a symbol of resistance i meant to know you know this government was not elected by

us so we don't accept them or work under the command we stopped providing service at governmental hospitals instead will provide free medical services by outside doctors and other alternative services so that there are no problems for the public in this way we're conducting civil disobedience. medical staff in mandalay did the same responding to calls from a group calling itself the civil disobedience movement staff at 70 hospitals participated according to the group's facebook page was where we're just protesting peacefully by wearing this red ribbon we don't need to speak up we all know that during the ribbon as a sign of protest against the military government and the only want our elected government this is a message. facebook services were then cut off across me amar's telecom networks but that's not stopped people from being heard on wednesday prosecutors filed obscure criminal charges against state councilor on song suchi and her ally

president lenient the president's accused of breaching coronavirus measures on the campaign trail last year sue cheese charges stem from the possession of walkie talkies on song suchi has not been seen in public since her civilian led government was toppled international condemnation of her detention has been swift i think the charges filed against her are just compound the undermining of. the rule of law in myanmar and the democratic the democratic process we are disturbed of course by these reports we call on the military to immediately release them all and all detained civilian and political leaders. journalists and detained human rights activists and to restore the democratically elected government of power as president biden has said the military seizure is a direct assault on the country's transition to democracy and the rule of law so the calls have yet to make headway with the generals in charge but it's clear that many members of the public are very angry and willing to tolerate

a slide back into dictatorship and chapelle al-jazeera. meanwhile in the capital naypyidaw there's been a rally in support of the military coup crowds carried the flag of the armed forces and pictures of me and lean who is the man now in power scott hard is following developments for us he's in chiang mai in neighboring thailand more on the anti coup protests. we've been kind of tracking this protest at the mandalay medical university over the last couple of hours you know the video that was posted on social media about 20 plus people out there protesting holding banners holding signs and then there are other posts information saying on social media saying that they were then broken up by police that wasn't in the video so we don't really know how it ended but part of it is coming clearer now and that is that at least 3 groups involved in the protests tracking that protest in mandalay have said that 3 people have been arrested so we have a couple of firsts today that is the 1st protest street protest against the coup

that went out in mandalay and then we're seeing at least 3 people arrested those are the 1st arrests since this coup took place on monday of the 53000000 people in myanmar more than half or about half are on facebook a lot of reasons for that but partly because it's entry reentry into the world after 5 decades of military strong military control and really kind of closed off from the world so a lot of people in myanmar hopped into social media because it's something the outside world reach is something they didn't have for a while but that has now been restricted so a lot of people are concerned about communication between people within yemen who relied on social media but then also those in myanmar talking to family and relatives outside getting information to them outside so it's a great concern the government said that they had to shut it down the military had said they had to shut it down because there was dissent from ation being spread on facebook fake news they said and that was. working at against the stability of the

country that's the rationale they used to shut down facebook they say it's going to least be shut down until february 7th 18 almost 19 minutes past the news on here's what's coming up. venezuela to start a new life in chile why a recent influx of migrants is raising fears of a potential humanitarian crisis also we look at the role conspiracy theories are playing in the united states and what may be just around the corner. 500 tennis players and officials are back in quarantine in australia santa will have the details later and. well there are new warnings about the consequences for the whole world really of developing countries don't get fair access to cope with 19 vaccines international federation of the red cross and red crescent societies says 70 percent of those administered so far have been in the world's 50th 50 wealthiest countries they say

this sort of vaccine inequality could lead to further mutations of covert 90 so the group is developing a plan to fund jobs for 500000000 people in poor countries very pleased to say joining us from geneva is the guy who is the secretary general of the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies secretary general thank you for your time today tell me about your plan 500000000 jobs or 500000000 people how are you going to go about it. no thank you for having me and as you mentioned we were alarmed we did a statistics that almost 70 percent of the back since we're into it we're hearing countries and wonder if you don't want one percent of blacks in where they're actually going to be or 50 poorest countries so we launching this campaign in basic of the 2 every book at our table distribution of the vaccines and the and the underclass and must be available to every country in the war and

basically this campaign is about supporting. the action it's an out of 200000000 people especially in those countries where the vaccine is not easily accessible so we are actually asking the book at her. distribution access to the vaccines we also are working towards building the trust on the fact it's you know a number of countries there is a very high level of protection incidence actually including in the in the in the in the windier countries and of course in spite of that also supporting the heavy trucks off the of the countries community mobilizations and really reaching into happily it's a community somehow to its area so this is really about supporting the masculine internationally a 1st to lead be the most vulnerable and most isolated community is that's not what was effectively announced yesterday by the kovacs alliance where they said we're going to get in the end up to $2300000000.00 doses out there at

a cost of maybe $3.00 per shot i mean that was i thought great news yesterday. yes indeed that was the great news and what we are announcing today is actually to compliment that i that that person so once the vaccines i did my that well up to care. facility but also offered a number of governments that ultimately indicted persons of that actually but what is really important here is was that actually to the capital of the country it's the ration have to have 2 pieces isolated villages and communities and under not only the ration actually gets delivered into the arms of the people we will not have the desired impact of this campaign is about implementing those efforts announced yesterday but also like announced by a number of governments and our who and he is it this poor to do it if it should lead anywhere good actions and a number of countries especially in the list will get a country that's our hugh who will just take a challenge and of course the challenge because the action had to. look these kinds

of inequalities unfortunately exist all over the world and in so many different situations we know that do you feel that this time with the undeniable global nature of the pandemic that people will rise to the occasion this time and realize no we do have that we do actually have to. follow through with what we say about there being equality. absolutely and this is exactly what you are what 'd we are calling pot on the web and what we are emphasizing i think even though it is not no global solidarity in a situation like this what they have with products to produce that global solidarity because it's not only about a moral imperative it's not only moral imperative that we have an equal distribution of taxes if you have these idiotic surely the one lee way to get rid of this is by the us so it had all the leaders that everybody needs to come together if not only did we see in some places that you know you know we did see

some action hoarding happening and i bet that trend continues to be no one will be safe in the long run you know if we have what the populace will not vaccinated in different parts of the war if we see the light of even attempting and actually at some point we demean to divide us even the people who are only that actually could contract a slightly different stance arise passion absolute sense that we have a global solidarity and that need that each other country particularly be to share that capacity with the ones who don't have that about absolutely essential isn't it just gonna happen and the secretary general of the i pass a thank you so much for your time thank you for having me. we return to the hague the verdict in the case of dominic. the lord's resistance army commander and there are guilty verdicts sexual slave and torture

pillaging most importantly i think so far the hague court saying there is evidence beyond reasonable doubt we'll talk to a correspondent in a moment to have a listen and 1st on yeah i think i do if you can. on account 15 of the charges guilty of the war crime of attempted murder 1st into 2 articles 8 to see roman 1253 if and 253 a of the wrongs that you. don't 29th of april 2000 for. an account 16 of the charges guilty of the crime against humanity of torture person to article $71.00 if and 253 of the rooms that you committed on 29th 2000 for at on your take i have an account of 17 of the charges guilty of the war crime of torture persons 2 articles 82011253 of the rooms that you committed on 29th of april 2000 for at on your dick.

and i count 18 of the charges not guilty of a crime against humanity of the year the judge has counted 18 out of approximately 70 and i believe against dominic would you want overwhelming evidence that ongoing was in full possession of mental capabilities as what we're hearing from the judges there step boston is our correspondent outside the international criminal court following we were talking earlier step about the gray area here the fact that the court take into account that. the child soldier apparently not. no they haven't taken that in to a college at least so far because we still have to go to the sentencing section but the judge has to say hold. on one fully responsible for the horrific crimes that he

has committed that he's now being convicted of as you mentioned torture forced marriage sex crimes and placement it's a long list and they're only at the beginning of this long list of accounts of war crimes that around 70 in total in total he also the judge says he really doesn't see any duress that he was facing on when he was facing during a committing these crimes there was no threat to him that he would be killed if you wouldn't do it he didn't see him as a puppet on the string as the defense has sat and that rose in the ranks because he was such a good commander in the eyes of joseph cohen and so he actually became one of his most popular commanders and he never really escaped so it's very difficult to judge to think that he did commit these attacks while he was facing some kind of threat so he holds him fully responsible so we will hear the rest of the guilty or not

guilty verdict some of these accounts he finds him not guilty but most of them he finds him guilty the maximum sentence that the international criminal court can give normally is 30 years but in very exceptional cases they do hand out a life sentence ok it's a step if you can keep an eye on things there for us and there is no again what comes out of those many more charges in the sentencing as you say which is very important the man you saw just on screen there just out of shot now dominick on when former lord's resistance army commander in uganda being found guilty of torture sexual and slave meant pillaging. the fact that he himself as i said was a child soldier was actually abducted at the age of 10 seemingly not. being taken to into account that much yet there are 70 charges against him and the judge is still going through all of those but importantly the judge saying he did not commit crimes under duress more coverage from the hague to come throughout the day.

now iraq's government is holding funerals for victims of the yazidi religious minority these were people killed by eisel in what the u.n. has called genocide the remains of 104 people have been examined and identified from mass graves in northern iraq they will be laid to rest in line with your tradition in the coming days i still took control of their ancestral homeland in 2014 and at least 3000 were killed 7000 women were forced into sexual slavery hundreds of thousands of years still displaced more than 5 years since the region was taken back from a little they are one of the largest religious minorities in iraq an estimated 500000 lived there before i saw swept through the vast majority in the north and around the district of sin jar you know these are also scattered across northwestern syria and southeastern turkey they use 80 faith traces back to

mesopotamia combines elements of several ancient religions i so deemed them heretical so that gives you a bit of background some wonderful things our correspondent in baghdad with more similar on what's actually happening today. well as you have seen in those pictures just now these 104 victims who are the 1st ones who have been identified after having been exempt from those mass graves in sin jar they received this funeral procession in baghdad with the president and the prime minister and tending and they will now be transported to singe are to be laid to rest in line with is it a transition now many as it is survivors are asking why this process has taken so long it has been 7 years since this massacre took place it has been almost 6 years his eyes were was driven out of a sin jar and has been over 3 years since the u.n. security council adopted a resolution setting up an investigative body to collect evidence and to open these

mass graves now until now over 20 mass graves have been opened out of around 200 not just in some jar but across northern iraq and the reason why this has taken so long is that is because it is quite a complicated procedure technically for example these teams both from the u.n. and the iraqi government have to open these graves be very careful they have to scan the flag for using a 3 d. scanner these graves to investigate what is essentially a crime scene and then they have to collect d.n.a. samples from relatives so as to identify these victims now astray i spoke to cut income the head of the investigative team about the procedures that are taking place. it's very important to realize constantly that these are crime scenes and crime scenes tell a story now this is important both to document what took place also to look at you know chart for example ballistics ballistics the rounds that were spent that were

used to execute the use of unarmed civilians also may contain d.n.a. evidence that may contain fingerprints for the sake of argument all of these are important frenzy steps that help ensure that the evidence we collect can be properly evaluated and assessed to build criminal cases now so far the evidence that the u.n. has collected indy's mass graves has not yet been used in criminal cases here in iraq because currently there is no legislation that would allow the government to do so and there is currently a draft law before parliament which would not only give the u.n. that mandate to present that evidence and collaborative the judiciary to actually prosecute i saw suspects but that law would also important to recognize these crimes as genocide and against crimes against humanity and pave the way for justice

for accountability and for the survivors of what the u.n. has already called the genocide to finally try to get some closure thank you for the background simona 14 in baghdad and now another group of who is in to hook in iraq an international lawyer and a project manager at young which is a group helping the u.c.d. community recover and to prevent further atrocities and we'll talk about that in a moment just tell me 1st of all not about the events of today and then the burials that will take place how important symbolically and for the families is this. thank you so much come on thank you for having me here i'm coming to support and i think i mean families have been waiting for this event since all this is from. families all around the world traveled to iraq to attend the burial and it is really the 1st time in years the history that remains of victims in events of life

and handed over to their family in a 6 by sleigh you might know that. it's over and then. it's a very important. there is as i understand the use e.d. survival which is being discussed in the iraqi parliament what is that and would it be enough. yes this is actually a very important law that was signed by the iraqi president a law to help mine and it's a very important step for the survivors however there are couple of issues with chris there was no consultation of providers themselves who are you know the 1st beneficiaries of the law the law clearly says no survivors and we know that's also may also visors isis the wrong only for your deeds you know that other community the shah back on the turkmen christian community were also suspects i trust the

system and the law is also incomplete it doesn't get all kinds of reparations that visor was not one of them it's not that there's no guarantee what's the vibe or i think that it's really the area that they will not be subjected to another general who buys. what is it about the use e.t.a. in the sense that i guess when i saw swept through iraq and syria they went exactly picky they just kind of you know it was this why eve right through parts of the country but for the use 80 to be considered. what was it that was such an issue if i can put that way for eisel. yes that's a very good question so many people think that i many people discovered. the disease have a long history. especially in the middle east and you know what but the demise of

it later also targeted already. there were 2 bombs being in the north of iraq to visit his village just that killed thousands of people and this was the 2nd most important. because the talk back. was enough to bring the u.s. you know there is this ideology that they believe these devil worshippers are not people of the book and that because of that. and. extraordinary not to as you say it's an important story one we shouldn't ignore and it's great to have you with us to talk to rick thank you for refugees from crisis hit venezuela ha now risking their lives by attempting to cross the mountainous land border into chile additional security agents have been

deployed to prevent illegal crossings stopping inside father was been a challenge has begun the polls. these families left venezuela hoping for a new life and chilling back home life had become unbearable they say there's no food no jobs and no future if he does none of the well you can't survive in venezuela you really can't how are we supposed to make it with about $3.00 a month now there are fears of a potential humanitarian crisis entire communities are walking towards the chilean border climbing mountains and rocky ground to avoid border checkpoints at least 2 people died attempting the journey one from colombia the other from venezuela. about 30 people who were in the group tried to help one of the migrants of mouth to mouth resuscitation but it's possible the patient had covert 19 so now there's a risk the virus is spread more than 4000000 people have fled of venezuela in

recent years most went to colombia and peru but now more families are choosing to go to prosperous chilling but not everyone is happy to see them i don't mean to the same out of the bases families from our local i marise indigenous group have had intruders in their properties they walk in looking for food and clothes they go through pru and they write to chile in deplorable conditions chillin soldiers have been deployed along bolivia's border to prevent illegal crossings but stopping them has been a challenge most refugees and migrants say their desire for a new start the stronger than the fear of the dangerous journey. of the young al jazeera a prominent lebanese activist has been found dead in his car after being shot up on sleeping was a journalist and political analyst also produced films and established an archive of lebanon social and political history was well known for his criticism of hezbollah swimmers and southern lebanon when his family lost contact with him on

wednesday. strong winds have found a bushfire outside the western australian city of perth they say $81.00 homes have been destroyed people have been told to flee to safety even if it means breaking lockdown measures more than 250 firefighters been battling that fire while several large air tankers are being used to douse the flames as well the u.s. government is warning violent right wing groups may be emboldened by the riots at the capitol building last month the department of homeland security says they could be further attacks american cern's that conspiracy theories are continuing to fuel the hatred or brownouts as a report from los angeles on deep web message boards and social media many conspiracy theorists are expressing dismay and disappointment following president joe biden's inauguration last month where it's just believed that somehow trump was going to come out victorious and that there would be all these kind of democratic

figures sort of put on trial at harrod's of the conspiracy theory q and some of who were involved in the riot at the u.s. capitol on january 6th believe leading democratic politicians are part of a global couple of pedophile cannibals some of them have now rejected that bizarre belief system but some are gravitating to more militant groups so the big wildcard and i think we're looking at the united states is not whether we have an insurgency. but how fast and how hot it will run i will say that the rhetoric among friends soon as he's i don't think it's ever been hotter than it's been as long as i've been covering the racism anti-semitism and hatred of so-called elite deep roots in american society and culture scholars say that's not going to disappear the hardest edges of that movement are going to be around we have an

insurgency and the issue is who's going to lead this insurgency what are the leaders an ideological pinnings of this insurgency going to be the continue round grieve the republican party that enabled trump for years has seen an influx of hard core conspiracy theorists for example the newly elected republican congresswoman marjorie taylor green is a firm believer in the q a non-fantasy so many americans are blind and when they hear these stories about pedophiles and they hear the stories about satanic worship they don't want to believe it straight they just don't another possibility the far right and conspiracy groups may split with republicans and form their own party and if we see some kind of breakaway political party or some kind of charismatic elegiac were other type of leader that will supercharge the rest what seems almost certain is that the threat of right wing political violence whether perpetrated by so-called

lone wolves targeting minorities or more organized plots against the government and its officials will be a feature of the american political landscape for some time to come robert oulds al jazeera los angeles. and a footnote to that story canada has designated the far right group as the proud boys of the terrorist organization some of its members have been challenged in the u.s. for their role in last month's attack on congress. 5 people including a police officer died in the insurrection at the capitol building earlier that day some problems members had attended the rally hosted by president obama trump in the white house the popular video sharing uptick talk will begin flagging videos to combat the spread of misinformation videos that can't be immediately verified by tick tocks fact checkers will have a banner saying they may contain substantiated content trials showed the warnings

make uses less likely to share such a clip other social media company such as twitter have already been flagging disputed or false content of course that includes former u.s. president donald trump who was eventually thrown off the platform but there are concerns this power to censor will suppress information could be abused india has pressured twitter to block hundreds of accounts critical of the prime minister or face legal action his demand is to not take analyst and c.e.o. of social flow dot com he says the implementation of fact checking on these platforms really is a complicated matter. how exactly is this going to work is the unanswerable question fact checking sounds very good and i think most of us are in favor of true and honest information being disseminated and we don't like it when we see lies or things that are patently false but trying to figure out how you systematically judge that and if you outsource it to a group of fact checkers you know one of the common criticisms is who fact checks the fact checkers and these complicated topics are rarely yes or no answers i mean

it's one thing to say that the world is flat versus the world is round you know i think there's enough scientific consensus where most people will agree with you that the world is not flat but when you talk about issues such as election fraud climate change coronavirus these are extraordinarily complex topics that are not very well suited to simple yes or no answers or this is factual this is not the key difference with social networks that with these algorithms right i think most people don't really sit down and think that what i see on tick tock and what you see on tick tock tick tock are 2 completely different things or twitter or facebook or really almost any social network those algorithms are constantly curating and cultivating content to present to me to present to you to present everybody individually and that ends up creating a filter bubble and a reinforcing loop so that if you start to consume content that is a dubious truth will say or outright misinformation you'll get more of it and then the content creators who produce that content are rewarded with greater reach and

so they're very much a reinforcing a self reinforcing cycle that when you start to consume that kind of content you're going to get more of it. sport is coming up they'll be an update on the club world cup happening here in qatar and also climbing to new heights the once nation sports which will be making and then pick deputes honesty and i would.

remove. the all. international football with fans actually watching happening here in qatar is that something is happening it's their call it's called the mini football world cup

there it's 6 teams of the 5 a continent getting ready to take pot and this. will cup in qatar which kicks off. later on thursday south american champions arrived in qatar overnight the brazilians that will enter the championship at the semifinal stage on sunday qatar is hosting the event for the 2nd time and strict code with 19 restrictions on the matches are taking place in 2 of the 2022 world cup stadiums the african champions actually take on hosted the hey look at education city but before that asian champions used to use on take on who won the north and central american title that game is happening at the ahmed bin ighly stadium where our sports reporter and it was just in is live for us and the 1st of all how challenging is it for qatar to hold such a high profile event during a pandemic. yeah i mean katz was going through

what every other country's going through to a lesser or greater extent was a press conference here in the country last night from the government. saying it's clear indications that a 2nd wave of infection is on its way to cats are in part of some new restrictions on public gatherings both indoors and outdoors on how many people get out of the work place we're going into this tournament is the expectation that stadiums will be at 30 percent capacity an absolute maximum but as with everything else in the world at the moment it's all subject to change any fans who want to come to games they either have to have the vaccine or of tested negative for coverage 90 just just ahead of kickoff and it's a game for the players a lot of restrictions all the players coming in to cats are tested 3 to 4 days before their departure tested on arrival at airports straight to a bar a secure bubble which includes outsells training grounds and stadiums

and what we're seeing here it's no different so it's every other country trying to hold an international events at the moment we've got the australian open tennis at the moment in melbourne and see the complexity. trying to quarantine so many players and of course the big one on the horizon this year is carolyn picks the international olympic committee doing its best to provide information now on how it actually is going to work bringing in tens of thousands of people into. in a relatively short period of time. here in qatar the organizers desperately hoping that their world cup which starts in november of next year will be in house pandemic environments but having to prepare for every eventuality and of course talking about the world cup is qatar still on track for the qatar 2022. and from an infrastructure perspective looks to be in a good position 90 percent of tournament infrastructure is finished now the stadium behind me here stadium is one of the newest stadiums later on tonight education

city stadium will be used as well there too with 8 stadiums will be used at this world cup for finished a couple more beef finished in just waiting to be officially inaugurated and the main stadium the leigh sales stadium the 80000 capacity stadium that will host the final the expectation is that will be finished by the end of this year i guess the bigger concern is the inability to stress test things with a lot of fans here. of course later in the year katsav be hosting something called the fee for arab cup which will include $22.00 different countries taking part in the real hope is then traveling fans will be able to come in some numbers and not get a proper chance to test operations at the airports moving fans around the city organizing fund zones but again in this in this world we live in at the moment it's very hard to make any predictions about anything and you are to send thank you very much for that. well organizers of tennis australia open say it will begin

a scheduled on monday invest a spot 500 players and officials being forced back into isolation in melbourne work at a hotel has tested positive for the virus just days off to play is finished a 2 week quarantine on arrival in australia if test negative they'll be allowed back out of the rooms play at 6 warm up the vents that has also been disrupted with the matches being called off on thursday we have to be confident that you're not going to go here we know that we've got a period now that we're going to work through with those $507.00 players and they start as $160.00 players actually that need to test and we fully expect the probability is very low that there's going to be any issues we fully expect them all to be to test negative and then we continue with play tomorrow like we originally planned or the head of the tokyo olympics organizing committee has apologized over sexist comments he made about women talking too much of but says he

won't resign if cheryl morea reportedly told a meeting of the japanese in a big committee on wednesday that meetings with female directors that can take a long time and are annoying 83 year old mori who's the former japanese prime minister is on the pressure to stand for. the statement to meet at the g o c committee yesterday was an inappropriate expression contrary to the spirit of the olympics and paralympics i am deeply most full i would like to throw out the statement i would like to apologize for any unpleasant feelings. tokyo officials say the delayed games that will go ahead despite the koran a virus pandemic and when they do spoil climbing will make his debut nicolas cage reports from congo. inside this climbing gym tomei halloran is preparing for the biggest competition of his life representing astride

the are the tokyo olympics something he's been dreaming about since he started climbing is a child it's still a bit of a trick not to think. in the competing it's a dream come true for the 1st time a climbing will be an olympic sport and the halloran is one of 2 this trial eons to qualify you for match will require athletes to master 3 disciplines bouldering a form of free climbing speed climbing and late climbing with a roic all requiring mental and physical strength flexibility and skill is usually specialize in. the combination of the 3 is is one of the events sort of like. a track athlete has to run the marathon the 100 made is like hurdles climbing is growing from what some of previously viewed only as a recreational activity 2 athletes winning medals at top international events in

australia pretty suppression rights are driving by new gyms opening up across the country with its popularity rising the number of competitive climbers in australia has tripled in the past 7 years there are now 1200 climbers who are registered for competitions. well still in its infancy in astray leah an estimated $35000000.00 people appear to spiting in the sport worldwide only 40 will compete in tokyo but speculation around whether the olympics will be kept so close that 19 coupled with travel restrictions limiting access to print media training centers has made for an unprecedented and challenging debut for athletes i think it's a matter of just digging in and doing the absolute best you can despite all of the external noise you've just got to block it out and just keep on. marching forward. hopefully towards chalking up his 1st olympic medal. al-jazeera caliber

and also as well fernando back to come up so i thank you more from sun in our next news hour finally for you though a man in the united states has received the world's 1st full face and double hand transplant months after his surgery and doctors are only now calling it a success the harding has this extraordinary story but just a warning there are obviously some graphic images in a report. joe di meo was 20 years old when his life changed for the 1st time after surviving a car accident he was left with burns to 80 percent of his body the skin on his hands and face had melted. his chances of surviving the accident were slim than 2 years later finding the right donor for a transplant seemed impossible but last august they found a match if your. doctors then attempted what had never been successfully done before giving someone

a new face and 2 new hands. dimino surgery took nearly a day with close to 100 medical professionals in the theater the surgery happened last year but doctors waited to be sure his body didn't reject the transplants before calling the operation a success we try to minimize those potential complications but getting through the 1st 3 months is critical most of the patients throughout the world that have been had a hand or a face transplant commonly have an episode of a cure rejection within the 1st 3 months for dimia it worked as soon as i saw for the 1st time i feel. this is just my face now i just as far along with it i just i just kept calling his demeanor as road to recovery has been grueling every task requires full concentration to do a lot of things sometimes open up a large bottle pretty hard. and are all exclusion

are now for not. allstar you'll have to like going to the gym something he hasn't been able to do for years and now i know have little through i just do like the natural workout the final phase involve the inside of a donor face and hands to the recipient for for restoration operations like this are rare and risky that this team of doctors had only conducted for face transplants none of them were successful in the long term and this was their 1st hand transplant we would love for these transplant operations to be a thing of the past the ultimate goal is to try to 3 d. print tissues that we can take off the shelf and avoid any of the potential complications from immune suppressive medication. however science may bans dimia will always be considered a medical 1st hearting al-jazeera. wow that's a news i dreamed up in a moment. as

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