covers the uncomfortable truths the listing posts on a. be the hero the world needs. washing. this is al-jazeera. the time is 1300 hours g.m.t. hello i'm come all santa maria welcome to the news hour on al-jazeera no leniency for a ugandan child soldier turned rebel commander has been found guilty of a series of war crimes also in the news this thursday reports of arrests in may in juarez the government restricts social media including facebook. the red cross says

nearly 3 quarters of the world's vaccine doses given out so far have been in the 50 richest countries and they were murdered in their thousands by eisel in iraq years later the government holds funeral ceremonies for the year's eve it is. the how must not have all the sporting killing 6 teams from 5 continents are getting ready to take. that club world cup in qatar strict covert and 19 restrictions. the international criminal court at the hague has found ugandan militia leader dominic guilty of war crimes after a 4 year trial but this was unlike other trials of its nature because of just how long when rose to his position he was part of the lord's resistance army but he himself was abducted by the armed group at the age of 10 and forced to become

a child soldier even so the court found him guilty of ordering the killings of civilians that have ducked children and declared he did not do so under any jurists the chamber's therefore convicted only going over total of $61.00 crimes compromising both crimes against humanity and war crimes to try to sum up in a few words the lengthy and technically verdict rendered by the chamber the only going has been found guilty beyond reasonable doubt of a number of crimes committed in the context of the 4 specified attacks on the i.d.p. camps of. or dick who cody and book attacks against the civilian population. murder attempted murder torture and slave meant outrages upon personal dignity pillaging destruction of

property and persecution. more with step boston has been following developments from the high step 17 charges i think they were in the end we heard the judge reading through all of them was there any leniency shown in any of those or did the judge just decide no his past has no bearing on this. well he's been found guilty on 61 of the 70 accounts so you could say there's not much levy and see here from the judge's side the main question of course on the table here for the dart. is there's a victim or a perpetrator or is the something in between well the charges were very clear about it he is a perpetrator he was fully responsible he was morally mentally able he was aware of what he was doing he could have escaped and he didn't so also a very clear and strong ferdi that actually shocked the defense ice just spoke to the lawyer he said he called it

a bombshell verdict he said it wasn't fair because the whole victim's side of the and as you said he was 9 years old the judges have now established the age because it was a lot of discussion about how old he was when he was abducted now he was 9 years old he had a whole period 6 years long before he was officially 50 years old you can become a child soldier officially in uganda so you had this whole traumatic past but another thing that the lawyer pointed out was that he said the course was very european centric not going into the details of 1st spiritual belief and according to him on one was very much on the disposal of spirits and he really believed in the so-called 10 commandments of joseph cohen so in that sense according to the lawyer he could not be held accountable but that's not something that the judges had gone into at least not in the summary of this conviction so i guess it's a case in the end step of the court having to show it is still strong even in this very unique case not only was it unique you also had the fact that i think this was

the 1st time the n.r.a. had been in the quarter and just the sheer number and weight of charges that have been brought the court had to do something that field. exactly exactly that's true that's also what experts are saying that this is the only case they had. of the al array of course one of the most horrific movements and armies that we've seen or a time and only the man who had become a child soldier and was had become a rebel commander was in their hands of course chose of course when he is still at large so people here experts are saying now on one gets the whole older massacres all the atrocities committed by the al are a is now put on his shoulders and of course there's questions is this fair or not but the i.c.c. for them it was a very important case they need more convictions they don't have that many come fiction since the start of this court in 2002 so there's

a lot of political elements as well and the lawyer also immediately said he will appeal so this will definitely not be the end of it we also still don't know the sentence that will come actually only in a few months from now and it could be some people say that in the sentencing maybe think them side of only one will be taken into consideration but nobody knows for sure what an intriguing case it is our correspondent at the hague today thank you for that step now a little earlier i spoke to christophe to take a senior lecturer at university of antropov he was an expert witness in this actual trial of dominic grimm he talked about be unprecedented nature of the case. the i.c.c. in the past has always set that protecting children and child soldiers making sure that dos 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 dominic 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 now in its verdict seems to follow that line that says we are a 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 hosni i mean imagine that being abducted 10 years old forced to be a child soldier you don't know anything else yet 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 boot as an article mentioned boot is a 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 is not mary because there is this 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 on ground so that already arrest warrants they were the 1st arrest warrants issued by the international criminal court it was against joseph corny and against order commander search i don't need the order commander staff to aardvark do it so there's only joseph cooley who remains at large and

dominick on ground so when these arrests words were unsealed the then prosecutor ocampo said well be only a matter of for a couple of months it seemed like an easy win and that time joseph truly he was the symbol of the absolute evil it was presented as an easy win for nice easy on to other news and reports of more arrests in may and maurice protests against monday's military coup gathered pace social media has been restricted as well putting access to facebook the un has criticized the move away from democracy unsung suchi and the deposed president both face charges and if convicted they would be working in politics again the full story now with us today. small protests in the 2nd largest city in myanmar the students and activists in mandalay are speaking out against monday's military coup but with the military campaign down on internet and social media providers it's hard for people to communicate and

organize protests yet don't have the power that we have no access to any news no news about mother on song suchi i feel so sad it gives me a pain in my chest i would rather go out and fight if possible but that would be against the wishes of mother sue facebook is a central part of life in myanmar it's why the military has shut it down seems as if the military is really going after the primary social media platforms including facebook which really is the internet in myanmar most people including people within government agencies use facebook almost as if it was an e-mail system so it will be. terrible in terms of its consequences not only in terms of organizing a response to this coup but also in terms of conducting day to day business and economic activity but that didn't stop these health workers walking out of the hospital to protest against the coup according to their facebook groups similar walkouts happened at hospitals across the country have we're just protesting

peacefully by wearing this red ribbon we don't need to speak out we all know that playing the ribbon is a sign of protest against the military government and the only want our elected government this is a message many people have likely not seen such a military presence on the streets since the 2011 democratic reforms. despite the apparent anger at the social media ban and the international condemnation of the coup the generals who have vast business interests in the country are not going anywhere. many people in myanmar may be troubled by the military intervention but minorities in the country have long been victims of the army's crackdown hundreds of thousands of muslims were forced to flee persecution deposed leader aung sun suu she was largely silent about their plight now finds herself at the mercy of the very same generals assad bake al-jazeera. just a footnote on that story in the capital naypyidaw there has been a rally in support of the military to crowds carried the flag of the armed forces

and pictures of main ung lane the man who is now in power we are 11 minutes past this news hour here's what's coming up one of latin america's most ambitious vaccination campaigns begins we will hear what's happening in chile. hammering home the point palestinians start rebuilding houses on the occupied west bank just hours after israel demolished them. 500 tennis players and officials are back in quarantine this is ahead of the australian open sun has got a look in tells coming up. so coronavirus news and there are warnings about consequences really for the whole world of developing countries don't get access to cover $1000.00 vaccines the international federation of the red cross and red crescent society says 70 percent of doses administered so far have been in the world's 50 wealthiest countries

a service vaccine inequality could lead to further mutations of covert 19 and so the groups developing a plan to fund jobs for 500000000 people in poor countries. without equal distribution even luke who i. mean i'm busy. if the latter pockets of the globe globe him in unvaccinated $1000.00 baxi abiders we continue to sharpen it and will continue to mute today we add our voice again to quote equality and fairness otherwise we visqueen back into the back estates of the pandemic and perhaps we discussing days that are even darker and dead yet. i will mention this a moment ago the 1st mass vaccination campaign in south america is happening in chile on wednesday more than 210000 people got their 1st dose many of them above the age of 90 a latin america editor the senior in reports now from santiago. it's been 5 decades

since goodness and just last set foot in a sports stadium she's just celebrated her 90th birthday making her eligible to be among the 1st to be vaccinated against cold 19 in what is actually a football pitch and it's been set up as an enormous clinic to inoculate tens of thousands of elderly people in this working class municipality of santiago here where i was very impatient to be inoculated 97 year old danielle lisa says she thinks the vaccine may lengthen her life a bit more and. this is the 1st mass inoculation against covert 19 in one of the regions hardest hit by the pandemic some used wheelchairs others canes while others sprinted in and out confident that soon they'll be able to end long months of isolation of it by the end of february some 5000000 of the most vulnerable

senior citizens and health workers should be inoculated followed by millions more but how did chile manage to secure so many doses. in april and may on the president's orders be signed the 1st contract assisted by specialized legal experts because buying such large quantities of back scene is uncommon and complex. another advantage is that chile has been able to pay for these vaccines up front unlike many of its neighbors who've had to wait for the less expensive ones that are being distributed by the un kovacs program the 1st one being used in this country are from china's sin of x. laboratory for mass inoculation of the general population and that's because they don't need special refrigeration and or is it to distribute weight on the plans to inoculate 70 percent of the population by the end of june an ambitious goal. 92 year old to do is the last of her 3 sisters waiting to be vaccinated today but you

were not given the flu we thought you were so heart until this invisible bug showed us that fee humans are not gods. and with that she went in for her jab defying the virus and vowing to make the best of the years she has left to see in human al-jazeera sent. iraq's government is holding funerals today for victims of the religious minority who were killed by eisel in what the u.n. has called genocide the remains of 104 people have been exuma been identified from mass graves in northern iraq they will be laid to rest in line with easy tradition in the coming days i still took control of their ancestral homeland in 2014 at least 5000 were killed and 7000 women were forced into sexual slavery well hundreds of thousands of these e remain displaced more than 5 years since the region was taken back from isobel one of the largest religious minorities in iraq an estimated 500000 lived in the

country before i saw swept through the vast majority are in northern iraq in and around the district of sin jaw communities are also scattered across northwest syria and southeast turkey they use it he favors well it traces back to mesopotamia and combines elements of several ancient religions i still deemed them to be heretics. so wonderful team covering the story from baghdad. you were telling me earlier and i think this is worth repeating but the timeline almost a year because it's got to this point where there will be the burials but really it's been a long time coming. exactly that is exactly one of the complaints of the survivors they say it is simply taken too long because it has been 7 years since these massacres took place in 2014 it has been 6 years since iraqi security forces with the support of the u.s. led coalition pushed out of it has been over 3 years since the secure u.n.

security council passed a resolution setting up an investigative body to exuma those mass graves now of course in jar is an extremely complicated region there is a lot of political tensions there are a lot of armed groups which have prevented to some extent speedier exhumation and of course the process is also very complicated also from a technical perspective the u.n. along with the iraqi government had to collect d.n.a. samples from the survivors to be able to identify the victims and of course many of these survivors have emigrated abroad so it was difficult to track them down to collect the samples and then the excavation itself is a very complicated process it's a very technical process for the mass graves are scanned using 3 d. scanners to really document these sites which are not just mass graves but crime scenes and the evidence gathered from these crime scenes should eventually be used

to try to prosecute eisel suspects and yesterday i spoke to the head of the u.n. investigative team about that process. accountability truthtelling proper investigations fair trials are critically important not only to expose the violent extremist ideology of dyche but it will do that also but to ensure that the value of human life is underscored and that those individuals are exposed and confronted by those that have survived in a courtroom by hard evidence that is reliable that is relevant that have property value and so that when punishment is meted out sentences given nobody can say that there is an injustice. now the legal basis to

actually use this evidence in iraq courts is not there yet there is a draft law before parliament that would grant the un the ability to hand over this evidence so it's actually used during the trials because so far what this seen is that a lot of these trials are confession based and there is not much material evidence presented in the courts which has drawn a lot of criticism from rights groups and the other thing that a draft law would do it would actually recognize this these crimes as genocide and against crimes as humanity and allow would allow for i suspect to be prosecuted under those last thank you simone infotainment that report from baghdad a prominent lebanese activist has been found dead in his car after being shot up in flame wars a journalist and a political analyst he also produced films and established an archive of lebanon social and political history he was also well known for his criticism of hezbollah

slim was in southern lebanon when his family lost contact with him on weapons day more than a quarter now in beirut. this is being called a target it's chilling there has been no claim of responsibility as of yet but his family has reached a verdict his sister is telling the media that she believes her brother was killed because of his views because of his opinion he was a prominent activist a very fierce critic of hezbollah the iran backed group which holds political power in lebanon and she stopped short of pointing the finger and saying hezbollah but what she did tell us is that she believes the ruling party was responsible she's not even calling for an investigation because many here in lebanon believe both the judiciary as well as the security agencies their politicized and the truth will never be revealed in a country where there has been decades of impunity look months liam was a vocal critic of hezbollah hezbollah supporters are denying any and they say that

they're coming to the defense of the organization saying that these accusations are politically motivated but many people point out that the facts of who he was he was from the same sector of hezbollah and he used to live among them in their hearts land which for many it is a thorn in the side of the group and we have to know what is going on in lebanon at the moment this sense is growing calls for a new leadership is growing and calls for early elections so there's condemnation there is anger and there is grief but there's also fear with activists telling us that media freedoms really and freedom of expression is at risk. for sure this is a sin this assassination is not the 1st of its kind but still it does and the journalists activists and the politician who raise their voices against injustice be the political statement live on and say that we will kidnap you kill you or at

least you will investigate your thoughts this tells us a lot that the russian in lebanon is going bigger and bigger the freedom of expression is vanishing given all there is nothing to say about democracy in lebanon this. nation does that we are going into the air office in nation against everybody who would raise their voices against injustice and oppression who only try to say that there is a political state that kills democracy bring back memories of the year of assassinations what you had said and what many activists have been telling us they're talking about the post 2005 period in lebanon which began with the killing of the former prime minister rafiq and then a series of killings of politicians activists journalists people really opposed to syria and its ally in lebanon hezbollah hezbollah of course the 9 and

a role in those murders but the situation here is people are afraid they're afraid of what is to come they are seeing that they are seeing this killing as a method as a method to silence dissent the united kingdom has revoked the license of china's state run television channel c g t n the office of communications made that announcement on thursday it says an investigation found license was wrongfully held by start china media china's foreign ministry says it reserves the right not to take measures against the u.k.'s public broadcaster the b.b.c. here's where a challenge in the u.k. to talk us through this one so what's the story on actually why the license was suspended. well of come basically had 2 main grievances against c g t n now the 1st of them is that as you said the license wasn't held in

the u.k. by an organization an entity that had editorial control over the output c.t.m. as per the regulations that sort of quantum says has to be the case so this star china media ltd wasn't making the editorial calls about what was broadcast what stories we cover that sort of thing so we went off home went to c.t. had it c.d.t. and said look this is not in compliance with all regulations c.v.t. and said ok right what will change that will put the license into our name. but then of course had another issue in the 2nd issue was that cd t.n. is controlled by c.c.t.v. which is controlled com says by the communist party of china and that's against off congregations as well you can't have a political party controlling the outputs of april cost. so they said they

gave c.d.t. a new. chances significant time to come into compliance but they haven't done that and so they have taken the license away from now this doesn't mean that cd t.m. has to shut up shop in the u.k. it has its main broadcasting center based in london but it does mean that in the future you won't be able to see it on british t.v. screens ok tell me rory how some of this might play out diplomatically i mean already you have some broadcasters in china who can't be same or if there's a story about china it'll suddenly got a black and people won't be able to watch it i mean how what this on wood. yes so obviously the chinese media landscape is very different from the u.k. one you can in no way say that china has a free press or a free broadcasting media environment as you said there are there are numerous restrictions on foreign brought costas and media organizations and what they can

put out in china i mean what we are perhaps. i don't know whether it likely is a weapon possible as we have for a stake in the you read out in your introduction that we might get some kind of pushback against the b.b.c. inside china this basically adds to i think a long and growing list of issues between the u.k. and china at the moment that the situation in this relationship is is worse bad and good and getting worse we've got problems like a hallway that the big chinese tech giant and its access to to the u.k. these tech infrastructure you've got issues over the hong kong national security law you've got protests in hong kong and the way that they're being covered by the b.b.c. which china doesn't like the way that china feels about coverage of the we get camps and then the coded situation so you can add this to that long list and it's

seems to be getting growing trade longer and on the way a really interesting thank you or a challenge in sussex for us today thank you ari we will grab a break you know out of the 1st let's check the weather with everton. however there we've got more wintry weather on the forecast for north america big bulge of cloud into central parts pushing across the plains and the central areas of canada and that's all going to make its way further a switch so there's that next batch of snow coming into the northeastern corner snow there north of the border into quebec pushing across towards canadian maritimes and some very heavy rain running down along the eastern seaboard into the panhandle at across the gulf next batch of wintry weather waiting in the wings that's going to make its way in as we go on through saturday say clearer skies over towards easter saturday but yeah that next batch of very wintry weather will come in the potential for a developing nor'easter coming in for the latter part of the weekend so that could cause some problems back up to a specific northwest significant snowfall coming through here western parts of

canada warmer and drier down across california once again woman try to across a good part of the caribbean we have got some sherry rain now moving across american republic heading towards parts of reiko wanted to share was to coming into the eastern islands but by and large more sunshine than some showers and it's looking pretty good as we go on through the next couple of days largely dry to for central america kingston with a top temperature of 28. i know that most folks here's what's coming up on this news hour a world 1st in fact stops in the u.s. announce the 1st successful full face and hands transplant. it's still a bit of a trip out to think that i am an olympian going to meet some of these people climbing to new heights so once nishat sports get set for its own pick depute.

it was the 1st trial of its kind for my ugandan child soldier dominic on brand is accused of recruiting more children to fight as he rose through the ranks of the in famous moods resistance army. now he is about to learn his fate at the international criminal court in aid. of the more than a decade of civil war life remains a challenge in sierra leone. we follow the citizens of this war torn nation as they push their limits of course avoid. risking yours in sierra leone. on al-jazeera. there is no channel that covers world news like we do we revisit places of the state there are really invests in that and that's a privilege as

a journalist. this is the news hour from al-jazeera these are the top stories the international criminal court at the hague has found ugandan militia leader dominic and when guilty of war crimes a judge says he ordered the killings of civilians and abducted children. military has restricted access to social media activists and people have been arrested in mandalay as well demonstrating against the other acts of civil disobedience are taking place across the country. and the international federation of red cross and red crescent society says 70 percent of covert vaccines administered so far have

been in the world's 50 wealthiest countries it's warning that sort of inequality could lead to tensions of the virus. oh israel's begun demolishing a bed one village in the occupied west bank for the 2nd time in just 3 months rights groups say israel wants to displace an entire palestinian community to make way for more illegal settlements israeli officials say the village there is on military land maybe abraham with a report from the occupied west bank. only a few hours after israeli forces demolished their homes these palestinians are rebuilding them himself full coverage in the northern jordan valley in the occupied west bank has been home to dozens of palestinians who have lived here for decades israel declared the area as a military training zone in the 1980 s. and has been demolishing structures here ever since it was going to cost to rebuild they come back take pictures on the mall is the village again we are tired of having slept. 3 months ago israeli forces raised the whole village on once

they came back and demolished what has been rebuilt when i knew we had. the children already scared we hear what are we going to keep demolishing our village this is the 3rd demolition in 3 months. this is what's left of our wet family home the 6 year old and his family had to sleep in the open last night it report by the charity save the children says the number of displaced palestinian children is at a 4 year high more than 500 children in the west bank have lost their homes in the last year what i have seen is israel bringing 1000 of jews building them beautiful houses and swimming pools and giving them all the water of the german valley and i see these people here and they're not the only ones that. are not allowed to live there like you and your ports show israel destroyed more

than 800 palestinian structures last year most where here in the jordan valley and in occupied east jerusalem according to human rights organizations this is the part of a policy to forcibly evict palestinians and people here say they have nowhere else to go and that. the occupied west bank the u.s. government is warning violent rightwing groups may be emboldened by the riots at the capitol building last month the department of homeland security says there could be further attacks and this concern conspiracy theories are continuing to fuel the hatred and support from rob reynolds in 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 for years sort of put on trial at heron's of

the conspiracy theory q and on some of whom were involved in the riot at the u.s. capitol on january 6th believe leading democratic politicians are part of a global cup ball of pedophile cannibals some of them have now rejected that bizarre belief system but some are gravitating to more militant groups so the big wild card 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 it is hot i don't think it's ever been hotter than it. is 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 because you round greaves 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 break away political party or some kind of charismatic elegiac were other type of leader. that will supercharged 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. the video sharing app will begin flagging videos trying to combat the spread of misinformation videos that can't be immediately verified by tick tocks fact checkers will have a banner put on them saying they may contain unsubstantiated content the trial showed those warnings did make us less likely to share the clip other social media companies like twitter of already been flagging disputed all false concept they did that to former u.s. president donald trump who in the end was kicked off the platform but there are worries this power to censor will suppress information could be abused as well india for example is pressured to it as a bloc hundreds of accounts which are critical of the prime minister or will face legal action some thoughts now from jim anderson he's a tech analyst c.e.o.

of social flow dot com there's implementation of fact checking on these platforms really is complicated. 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 you know 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 is 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 though is 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 tack 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 of 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 there's 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 refugees from crisis hit venezuela risking their lives attempting to cross the mountainous land border into chile additional security agents have been deployed to prevent illegal crossings but stopping them so far has been a challenge at the top and so they have small. these families left venezuela hoping

for a new life and she laid back home a life had become unbearable they say there is no food no jobs and no future if he does none of them oh 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 have 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 places 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 peru and they arrived 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 katia lopez of the young al-jazeera. all right this story is amazing a man in the u.s. who's received the world's 1st full face and double hand transplant months after his surgery doctors are only now able to call it a success now leah harding has the story and we are going to warn you but it's an amazing story but some of the images are quite graphic. 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. 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 died had a hand or a face transplant commonly have an episode of a cure rejection within the 1st 3 months for dimino it worked as soon as i saw for

the 1st time i feel. this is just my face now i just i was right along with it. and just kept on with it dimia is road to recovery has been grueling every task requires full concentration to do a lot of things sometimes open up a lot remodel pretty hard. and are all exclusion hard enough or 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 physical therapy i just do like the natural workouts 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 because this team of doctors had only conducted 4 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 bantz dimia will always be considered a medical 1st hearting al-jazeera. those animations well ok sports news coming up. and also the himalayan wetlands which opposed to hundreds of thousands of birds every winter but those numbers are declining we'll hear why and your sports as i say the tokyo olympics chief apologizes after making sexist comments about his female colleagues. my female colleague is here in a moment. you're

or war. you're. welcome back to looking at sport now what's on it thank you very much come our organizers of the tennis australian open say it will begin ask a jewelled on monday that's despite 500 players and officials being forced back into isolation and melbourne work at a hotel has tested positive for the virus just days off the play is finished to it quarantine on arrival in australia if there is a test negative they'll be allowed back out of their rooms 6 warm up events has also been disrupted with matches being called off on thursday we have to be confident it's going up it's 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 stopped $160.00 players actually that needed test and we fully expect the probability is very low that is going to be an issue we fully expect them all to be to test negative and then we continue with play tomorrow like we originally planned . the head of the tokyo olympics organizing committee has apologized over sexist comments he made about once more women talking too much but says he won't resign your mori reportedly told a meeting of the japanese limpid committee on wednesday that meeting with female directors a can take a long time and are annoying 83 year old mori in who's the former japanese prime minister is on the pressure to stand. there was a general statement made at the g o c committee yesterday was an inappropriate expression contrary to the spirit of the olympics and paralympics i am deeply most folks i would like to throw out the

statement i would like to apologize for any unpleasant feelings to officials say the delay the games will go ahead despite the call in a biased pandemic and when they do sport climbing will make its debut. reports from canberra. inside this climbing gym tomei halloran is preparing for the biggest competition of his life representing astride the at the tokyo olympics something he's been dreaming about since he started climbing is a child it's still a bit of a trip out to think and a 1000000 people it's a dream come true so the 1st time a climbing will be an olympic sport and a halloran is one of 2 to qualify and you for match will require athletes to master 3 disciplines during a coma for a climbing speed climbing and laid 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 saying that a track athlete has to run the marathon $100.00 made it is and like hurdles climbing his growing from what some of previously viewed only as a recreational activity to athletes winning medals at top international events in australia writes our 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 registered for competitions while still in its infancy in a strike an estimated 35000000000 people if it is in the sport worldwide only 40 will compete in tokyo but speculation around whether the olympics will be cancelled due to cope at 9 tame coupled with travel restrictions limiting access to premiere

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 gauge al-jazeera calibra. with all the coronavirus delays it will be a busy year of sport china is marking one year to go until the winter olympics are held in beijing it's a much smaller event than the games in tokyo and those held by beijing in the summer of 2008 and some facilities like the bird's nest stadium are being reused but on wednesday 180 rights groups wrote an open letter calling on countries to boycott the games over china's treatment of muslim minority weekers.

6 teams from 5 continents are getting ready to take part and this year's fifa club world cup in qatar which kicks off later on thursday south american champions by the mare's arrived in qatar overnight the brazilians that will enter the championship at the semi final stage on sunday qatar is hosting the event for the 2nd time amid strict covert 19 restrictions for the matches are taking place in 2 of the 2022 world cup stadiums african champions and i only take on hosts of the whole of that education city but before that asian champions play guess who won the north and central american title that game is happening at the ahmed banally stadium where our sports correspondent adam richardson's live for us and this is not the 1st time qatar hosts a huge a sporting event during the pandemic. it's north. you know they've had experience of hosting things like the asian champions

league at the end of last year but really the comparison between when they last hosted this event december 29th siena now could hardly be more stark on that occasion there were tens of thousands of fans coming into cats are from mexico brazil from england this time around only really local fans here and state incapacity it absolute maximum of 30 percent and most fans that do want to come they have to that's a good card it's has just ahead of the game or of the vaccine and also huge restrictions of course restrictions of course for the players that tested before they leave for doha it says that on arrival at the airport they then go straight into a secure bubble which includes the hard sell the training ground. and the match arenas as well so compared to where we were just just over a year ago this tournament has a very different feel about it but it's no difference it to any other country trying to organize an international sporting events in the midst of this pandemic

you've been talking about the issues facing the organizers of the australian open tennis course the olympics that huge event coming up around the corner with both the i.o.c. and the local organizers insisting it will still happen albeit with with huge restrictions in place here we organize is a really hopeful that by november of next year we will be in some sort of post pandemic environments but of course they have to prepare for any eventuality and then let's talk about the club itself i know your favorite team liverpool are not in it but what can we look forward to which teams and what matches. liverpool calls it which is disappointing because they they want it back in december 29th see behind me here now we've in a few minutes time with the asian champions taking on that cigarettes in mexico. this should have been a 7 seems filaments already having an impact on this event allchin city here representing siana pulled out because of corn senior structures in their country

and they didn't play around against the local champion say i'll do so they go straight through it so that i was taking place the lights are on between them and of egypt globally of course the real interest comes in the semifinal stage one promise of brazil during the competition and by and munich of europe join in as well worth noting that since 2005 this format has always been hosted either in asia or in africa but we've never had a winner from outside of south america or europe and these 4 teams that are in action today desperate city trying to change that at this year's events so quickly and all these footballing events are leading to the biggest event in football of course the 2022 world cup is qatar still on track for that. yet it's almost lost in the story isn't it 90 percent of the work of infrastructure is in place now 2 of the 8 stadiums that will be used in 2022 being used in this

tournament 4 of the venues are completely finished and i've been hearing cats are now a couple more are completed but haven't been inaugurated yet the one big thing that the organizers here really do need to test out in the coming months is doing this so with capacity crowds they haven't been able to do that because of the stress test operations of the airport on the metro getting huge numbers of fans in and out of stadiums because of carbonite seems that is the one concern they've got they've got the 5th cup coming up later in the year when i hope more fans are here and they can do just that and of course we all look forward to it and they would send life thank you very much. and that's it for me that was harsh i don't think your team's there either is. finally let's take you to india and minister to kashmir thousands of migrating birds there are struggling to find food because of an intense cold spell the birds travel from as far as siberia in the winter but climate change and

urban growth are disrupting the nesting areas piron them as the story. it is a welcome sight and sound every winter hundreds of thousands of migratory birds fill the skies of indeed administered kashmir among them geese eclipse ducks and commons all travelling thousands of kilometers from eastern europe japan and turkey to feed and breed here bartsch the himalayan wetlands of the common less welcoming . part of. it's always cold this time of year but this year it's too harsh it's making it difficult for the birds to find food on their own we've started artificial feeding by giving them peri greens. this winter temperatures have dropped to minus 10 degrees celsius wildlife. forced to break the ice on the wetlands before scattering paddy grain they were they boats out onto the lakes to cover as much ground as possible or we work really hard to get up birds as these

days the water surface at hope you search for uses you have to make a feeding pool be spread the grain and try our best so that these words don't starve. around half a 1000000 migratory birds have visited the whole wetlands since the vendor but their numbers have declined in recent decades years of climate change and urban development to being blamed it's selfish shrunk from nearly $900.00 square kilometers and 969 to 12.8 today but the 10 security situation in the area has made it difficult to address an environmental issues in the valley a region known as much for its natural beauty as the decades long battle against india will elizabeth parata al-jazeera new delhi. and they have another news hour from the team here at al-jazeera the news continues there 247 we're back in just a few moments and other news and of course the headlines whenever you want them at

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