if this continues it is just will be the opportunity for the girls to recover in between those. scientists a calling for strong climate policy from the government to reduce emissions without the situation gets worse. murder attempted murder torture and slave meant you can the international criminal court convicts a ugandan child soldier who became a rebel commander for a number of war crimes. summary here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera reports of arrests in the government restricts social media including facebook it is normally the biggest

human migration event but chinese authorities are asking people to stay home for the new year holiday. and a world 1st is the recipient of a full face and hands transplant is now in recovery. so the international criminal court at the hague has found the ugandan militia leader dominic and when guilty of war crimes after a 4 year trial this was unlike other trials of its nature because of just how and when rose to his position he was part of the lord's resistance army but he himself was abducted by the 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 and abducted children declared he did not do so under any duress. 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 technical 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 look already and book attacks against the civilian population murder attempted murder torture and slave meant outrages upon personal dignity pillaging destruction of property and persecution often said bastien a correspondent at the hague. these been found guilty on 61 of the 70 accounts so you could say there is 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 to something in between well the charges were very clear about it he is a perpetrator he was fully responsible he was moderately 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 side of it was 9 years old the judges have now established the age because there was a lot of discussion about how old he was when he was abducted the charges say 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 a soldier officially in uganda so you had this whole traumatic past but another thing that the lawyer pointed out was that he said to corpus very european centric not going into the details of

a 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 koni 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 his conviction were a spur to christophe to take or who's a senior lecturer of the university of on to it but he was an expert witness in this trial of dominic when he talked about the 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 basts verdicts and past judgments it 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 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 he was 10 years old has any 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 grow in boot as an article mentioned boot is a poster boy and a nightmare it's his poster boy because they need a verdict he has 70 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity but it's also is not marry 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 the n.r.a. arrest warrants they were 1st arrest warrants issued by the international criminal court it was against joseph corny and against order commander search don't you can read all the order commanders have tied by doing so there's only joseph cody who remains at large and dominick on ground so when these arrest warrants were unsealed the bennett prosecutor compass sets welby only a matter of for

a couple of months it seems like an easy win at that time joseph cohen he he was the symbol of the absolute evil it was presented as an easy win for nice easy. on to other news an activist group in maine mass has $147.00 people have now been arrested since monday's coup the protests gather pace social media is being restricted including access to facebook and the u.n. has criticized the move away from democracy unsung suchi and the deposed president both face charges and if they convicted they won't be working in politics again as a bank has more. 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 here don't have the power that we have no access to any news no news about mother and 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 a hospital to protest against a 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 muslim rangar 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 in the capital now if you know there's been a rally in support of the military coup crowds carried the flag of the armed forces and pictures of ming and playing who is the man now in the.

pictures are from neighboring thailand where there's been a protest against the coup in me and they waved posters of the aster data unsung suchi thailand is home to the largest population of migrant workers from me and. there are new warnings about the consequences for the whole world of developing countries don't get a fair access to covert 19 vaccines international federation of red cross and red crescent society says 70 percent of the doses administered so far have been in the world's 50 wealthiest countries i say this vaccine inequality could lead to further mutations of covert 19 so the groups developing a plan to fund jobs for 500000000 people in poor countries without equal distribution even who have actually needed. it laughed pockets of the globe remain on vaccinated 1000 actually invited as we continue to serve and we

continue to mute today we add our voice again to cause but equality and fairness otherwise we risk going back into that back as days of the camden and what have we discussing days that are even darker and. meanwhile the world's largest annual migration of people has been drastically reduced because of the pandemic at this time of year hundreds of millions usually travel across china to celebrate the lunar new year with their families the recent surge in cases they've been want to remain where they are katrina new reports from beijing. swimming coach has lived and worked in beijing for 5 years he looks forward to the lunar new year when he usually travels north to celebrate with his family but this year his employer has asked him to stay put to lower his chances of catching curve at 19. i'm an only child so my parents will celebrate lunar new year by themselves they will be

a little lonely and these pointed. were certain outbreaks in china's north have prompted the government to warn against travel despair brae holiday 10 regions are under lockdown for medium and a high risk areas must strictly implement restrictions in low risk areas people were encouraged to avoid unnecessary travel. again you'll festival is known as the world's largest human migration hundreds of millions of city workers take advantage of the week long break to return to brutal home towns but this year china's usually bustling transport hubs are quiet in the weeks leading up to train tickets or routes to and from major chinese cities that are usually very difficult to come by but seat selling out very quickly but this year due to the pandemic charges practically empty. travel prey to say bookings are down 60 percent compared to

before the pandemic local governments and some employers are offering allowances additional work and jobs and shopping coupons to entice people to stay put coronavirus tests a compulsory for those who do travel but they're expensive floor income workers who've also been told to expect restrictions on their movement in some areas the measures have been criticised by social media uses for being too heavy handed the fear of sudden lock downs is also dissuading travel is chinese authorities have often responded to a few infections by quarantining entire areas but some industry insiders a confident domestic travel will pick up later this year. it's difficult to say when exactly getting back to normal depends on a lot of factors like how fast people get vaccinated where the virus spreads and the weather etc. galusha and says he's ready to sacrifice his family reunion this

year you know what they're my parents ever stand but we'll miss each other the whole country was to suffer through this. like many others he's hoping life will return to normal the next. katrina you al-jazeera beaching. we'll check the weather in a moment and then hammering home the point palestinians start rebuilding houses on the occupied west bank just hours after israel demolished them and the tokyo olympics chief apologizes after the make and sexist comments about his female colleagues. hello we've got some warmer weather on the cards for japan welcome warmer weather along lost as well so we're saying goodbye to the snow still a few snow flurries around behind this weather system out in the northwest pacific

winds still coming in from a general northwesterly direction but they are said bars are opening up so the winds a falling somewhat lighter want to wintry flurries then as we go on through friday but temperatures getting up to around 12 celsius in tokyo notice a cloud of grain sliding out of eastern parts of china that's all going to make its way east was all part of that moderate pushing through actually in tokyo it bouncing up to around 15 degrees as we go on into saturday some pleasant sunshine coming through which stretches across the korean peninsula much you try to by saturday will be fine and dry and pleasant 26 in hong kong for good measure but as you try to across a good part of indochina into a good part of india we have got some showers still lurking there very close to sri lanka but a westerly disturbance now in the process of pushing across northern parts of india helping to clear the air for its side we are going to see that western weather that wintry weather moving across the foothills of the himalayas brighter skies do come back in behind not just some of that wet weather grass easing across into northern

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top stories this hour on al-jazeera the international criminal court at the hague has found ugandan militia leader dominic guilty of war crimes a judge says he ordered the killings of civilians and up to children. and activist group in 1000000 martyrs under the 47 people been arrested since monday's coup as protests gathered pace social media is being restricted including access to facebook by the un's criticize the move away from democracy. and the red cross and red crescent say 70 percent of covert $1000.00 vaccines of medicine so far have been in the world's 50 wealthiest countries it's warning this kind of inequality could lead to further virus mutations. iraq's government is holding funerals for victims of the year religious minority killed by ice so in what the u.n. has called genocide the remains of a 104 people have been examined and identified from mass graves in the north of

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 7000 women were forced into sexual slavery well ahead of the un team investigating the atrocities committed by isis is preserving any evidence will help to hold the perpetrators accountable justice accountability truthtelling proper investigations fair trials are critically important not only to expose the violent extremist ideology of. 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 are given nobody can

say that there is an injustice a prominent lebanese activist has been found dead in his car after being shot the one was a journalist and a political analyst he produced films and established an archive of lebanon social and political history he was well known as well for his criticism of hezbollah was in southern lebanon when his family lost contact with him on wednesday or now in beirut. this is being called a targeted killing 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 abuse 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 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 there politicized and the truth will never be revealed in a country where there has been decades of impunity looked months liam was a vocal critic of hezbollah hezbollah supporters are denying any day they say that they're coming to the defense of the organization saying that these accusations are politically motivated but many people point out the fact of who he was he was a shia from the same sector of hezbollah and he used to live among them in their heartland 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 dissent is growing calls for a new leadership is growing and calls for early election 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 the risk for sure this is a sin this assimilation is not the 1st the 1st sky but still it does a lot of the journalists activists and the politician who raise their voices against injustice be the political statement live on and say is that we will kidnap you kill you at least we will investigate your thoughts this does. a lot of pression in lebanon is going bigger and bigger and the freedom of expression is vanishing given oh there's nothing to say about democracy in lebanon this. is a nation that we are going into the area office in the nation against everybody who would raise their voices against injustice and oppression who only try to say that there is a political state that builds democracy bring back memories of the year of

assassinations what chad 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. and then a series of killings of politicians activists journalists people really opposed to syria and its allies in lebanon hezbollah hezbollah of course denying any 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're seeing this killing as a method as a method to silence. now 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 all the illegal settlements. very fishel so the village is on military land maybe abraham is a report from the occupied west bank. only a few hours after israeli forces demolished their homes these palestinians are

rebuilding them himself for coverage in the northern jordan valley in new york your part 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 go into her after rebuild to 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 only we had 10 of them the children were already scared we hear what are we going to see if they keep demolishing our village this is the 3rd demolition in 3 months this is what's left of hamid albar wets family home the 6 year old and his family had to sleep in the open last night 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 their life you wonder boards 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 brain. the occupied west bank. in democratic republic of congo soldiers have participated in an operation against rebels in juba who they are investigating an attack in january that killed at least 46 people the army says

it's still too early to know exactly what happened and who is responsible because several rebel groups operate in that area the united kingdom's revoked the license of china's state run television channel c g t n broadcast regulator off combs investigation found c.d.s. license was wrongfully held by star china media china's foreign ministry says it will reserve the right to take measures against the u.k.'s public or cost of the b.b.c. or a challenge says more on this from sussex in the u k. ah com basically had 2 main grievances against. the 1st of them is that the license wasn't held in the u.k. by an organization an entity that had editorial control over the output t.t.n. as per the regulations that swore off contant 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.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 says by the communist party of china and that's against off calm regulations as well you can't have a political party controlling the output of paper all cost or. so they said they gave c.d.t. numerous 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 c.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. now a man in the u.s. has 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 they hardly has this story just a warning though there are some pretty graphic images in the 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 it's going to go to. doctors then attempted what had never been successfully done before giving someone a new face and 2 new hands. to me oh 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 just went along with it. and just kept calm demeanor as road to recovery has been grueling every task requires full concentration to do a lot of things sometimes open up a larger model pretty hard. and are all exclusion

hard enough or not. prashar you do a lot of things like going to the gym something he hasn't been able to do for years and now i know how filthy i just do like our 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 and 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 i think in 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. now the head of the tokyo olympics organizing committee has had to apologize of a sexist comments he made about women but he says he won't be resigning shooter

moti reportedly told a meeting of the japanese in the pit committee on wednesday that meetings with female directors can take a long time and are quite annoying. the 83 year old who is the former japanese prime minister is under pressure to step down. 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 remorseful i would like to throw out the statement i would like to apologize for any unpleasant feelings. without as they were these are the top stories the international criminal court at the hague has found ugandan militia leader dominic ongan guilty of war crimes a judge says he ordered the killings of civilians and abducted children steadfast and has more from the hague so it was a very long list of for.