people's contribution to the peace process witness seen again on the jersey. understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world timely taking will bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. a glimmer of hope iran receives its vaccines from russia as it tries to stop a new wave of corona virus infections. hello and welcome i'm peter dhabi you're watching our to 0 live from also coming up researches at oxford university explore where the different coronavirus vaccines can be mixed and still be affected.

another day of scattered protests in me in mar as the military clamps down on social media to contain the anger against the coup. no mercy a ugandan child soldier turned rebel commander is convicted for crimes against humanity plus. it's still a bit of a tricked out to think that. an olympics. will meet some of those climbing to new heights for the sport that set to make its debut at the olympic games. early last year iran was experiencing an explosion of corona virus cases alarm bells started ringing when it reported the most fatalities outside china way back in february 2020. of providing hope for iran won't find itself in that situation again the 1st shipment of 10000 doses of the russian sputnik vaccine has now arrived to iran is expecting another 400000 in the next few weeks health care

workers and vulnerable groups are 1st in line to receive these limited doses dorset as our correspondent in tehran dos are there now what are the authorities start doing with the vaccines. well they're going through the process of checking everything they've received that is the 1st stage according to officials in the country the vaccine's arrived late this afternoon in the capital tehran we expect this shipment to be going out to health care workers there's about $430000.00 of them who are due to get vaccinated in the iranians have purchased at a price of $10.00 per vaccine the russian vaccine $2000000.00 doses of that vaccine so far the health ministry officials have said the country has managed to secure $18000000.00 vaccine in total that includes vaccines from china india and russia now of course iran is also developing its own vaccine there are 2 of

those in human trial phases and officials are hopeful that by late spring they will be able to start vaccinating the population with those as well but this comes at a time when there is a lot of worry it with the upcoming uranium near in mid march that the numbers will continue to increase that is generally the time when people see their families in large numbers the death toll stands just over 58000 so far in iran with over 41400000 people who have been infected the officials are worried that if they don't start vaccination program soon these numbers will continue to increase and they cannot afford another lock down they have had one proper lock down in the country since the pandemic began and that costs a lot of people a lot of money and it's something president is trying to avoid for now the officials have said they are hoping to have mass vaccination program completed by the beginning of next year and this is the 1st shipment that we've seen of a form vaccine coming into europe into the country so there is some relief that

they program will actually start very soon thank you very much dosage of reporting live from iraq. there are new warnings today about consequences for the world if the developing countries don't get a fair access to covert $1000.00 vaccines the international federation of the red cross and red crescent societies says 70 percent of doses administered so far have been in the world's 50 or wealthiest countries they say this vaccine inequality could lead to further mutations of covert 19 the groups developing a plan to fund jobs 500000000 people in the poorer countries without equal distribution even dogs who are bassinet did. it last pockets of the blue glow even on grass it did the $1000.00 vaccine biters we continue to sharpen it and we'll continue to mute today when we add our voice again to quote unquote equality and fairness otherwise we've is going back into that black is days

of the pandemic and perhaps we discussing the even darker and deadly. in a world 1st researches at oxford university are going to explore if it's effective to mix doses of the pfizer and astra zeneca coronavirus vaccines scientists will evaluate if you can alternate between the 2 for primer and booster shots if it is still effective using one of each vaccine they believe it would offer greater flexibility for immunization globally and might even increase immune responses that also be evaluating how important the timing is between separate doses some people taking part in the study will get the 2nd shot after a month others after 3 months not in barbara has more on the trial from london. i mean it's actually a guy's hospital in london where they're already vaccinating some of the the local population but the government are now saying that they're going to work with oxford

university in a world 1st trial they want over 800 volunteers ages more than 50 people who haven't had a job and they're going to give them a 1st dose of either the oxford astra zeneca the nation or the pfizer beyond take vaccination and then they'll get a 2nd one within 12 weeks that could be the same or it could be an alternative vaccination so they want to find out whether protection is actually worse the same or even better if you get a mixture of vaccines they're saying the other vaccines could be involved such as the norovirus in the yards and vaccines once very approved as well and the scientists in this study are hoping that it could give them clues as to how to fight better against those variants as well which of emerging not just here but in south africa and brazil a belgian court has convicted an iranian diplomat for attempted terrorism and

sentenced him to 20 years in prison. was found guilty of plotting to bomb an opposition rally outside paris and $2183.00 of his accomplices june iranian belgians were also given jail terms and was stripped of their belgian citizenship is the 1st time an e.u. country has charged an iranian official with terror related offenses iran has strongly condemned the decision. that activist group in me and maher says nearly $150.00 people have been arrested since monday's military coup and even though social media is being restricted people are still showing their anger at the sudden departure from democracy explains. 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 armstrong suci 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 a what 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 their 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 too she was largely silent about their plight now finds herself at the mercy of the very same generals i said big al jazeera well crowds in neighboring thailand held a protest against the coup in myanmar. they were posters of the ousted leader aung sun suu chain thailand is home to the largest

population of migrant workers from like me and mark international criminal court has found a ugandan rebel commander dominic unwin guilty of war crimes but the case is an unprecedented one because all when is a perpetrator and a victim on one was part of the lord's resistance army but he was himself abducted by the armed group at the age of 10 and forced into becoming a child soldier even so the court found him guilty of ordering the killings of civilians and abducting children and that he did so on his own accord 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. dick codey and book attacks against the civilian population murder attempted murder torture and slave meant outrages upon personal dignity pillaging destruction of property and persecution stassen has more from 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 church's side the main question of course on the table here for the da. is this a victim or a perpetrator or is the something in between well the judges were very clear about it he is a perpetrator he was fully responsible he was moderately mentally a boat 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 it 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 adopted the charges say he was 9 years old he had a whole period 6 years long before he was officially 15 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 the 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 still to come here on al-jazeera will take

a look at the role conspiracy theories are playing in the u.s. and maybe just around the corner. they were murdered in their thousands in iraq years later the government holds truly several names for use you the victim. for the punishment. sponsors. at ways how i recall some warmer weather on the cards for japan welcome warmer weather and long lost as well so i was 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. opening up so the winds of folding somewhat lighter want to wintry flurries then as we go on through friday but somebody is getting up to about 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 intake it bouncing up to around 15 degrees as we go on into sassed nice and pleasant sunshine coming through which stretches across the korean peninsula much of china by sas they will be fine and dry and at present $26.00 in hong kong for good measure well as you try to across a good part so vain that china into a good part of india we have got some showers still lurking there very close to sri lanka that 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 bryce's guys do come back in behind not just some of that wet weather grass easing across into northern parts of bangladesh. and ways in american people have finally poking around here as i see it when america is off balance or become more dangerous the world is looking at us live next year of

sanderson. with the election behind us with the republican party dumptruck with your weekly take on u.s. politics and society at the bottom all i care about how the u.s. engages with the rest of the world we're really if you didn't take you into a place you might not visit otherwise feel that you were there. for. been watching al-jazeera reminded of your headlining story so far today the 1st shipment of 10000 doses of the russian sputnik vaccine has arrived in iran another 400000 are expected in the next few weeks health care workers and the vulnerable groups are 1st in line to receive these limited doses. an activist group in myanmar

says nearly 150 people have been arrested since monday's military coup and even though social media is being restricted people are still showing their anger at the sudden departure from democracy. the international criminal court in the hague has found a ugandan militia leader dominic unwin guilty of war crimes the judge says he ordered the killings of civilians and abducted children. a longtime activist and fierce critic of the lebanese political party has bala has been shot dead his death has provoked a public outcry but there has been no claim of responsibility is in a hold the reports now from beirut killed by 4 bullets to the head and one in his back look months liam was found dead in his car in southern lebanon early on thursday he was a long time activist and fierce critic of hezbollah there has been no claim of responsibility but his family has reached its verdict read the relevant nor in this

country you're not allowed to have a voice against the ruling party they are strong and they won more than a year ago slim asked for protection against the iran backed armed group which controls political power in the country. progression in lebanon is going bigger and bigger and the freedom of expression is vanishing given all there is nothing to say about democracy in lebanon this. this assassination does a lot that we are going into the air office and nation. for many slim's killing brought back memories of the post 2005 period when former prime minister rafik hariri and other politicians opposed to syria and its ally hezbollah were assassinated the group which has an armed wing has denied any role in those killings and its supporters have come to its defense. in the uk most look man was against hezbollah syria and iran but it doesn't mean fingers should be pointed at them they could be someone trying to pin it on them. for many the killing was

a message this is going to scare anybody. going to criticize or thinks about criticizing a light killer. because of who look man was the most this in the world below and then look man hailed from the same sect as hezbollah shia islam he lived in the group stronghold and was killed in the group's heartland. for more than a year and tell yourself it's been protesters have been demonstrating to bring about a change in leadership and for the 1st time those protests spread into strongholds of the mainly sectarian political parties including hezbollah which was accused of protecting the system many blamed for running the economy into the ground the protestors were attacked by hezbollah and hamas supporters and journalists have been harassed. journalists hunger strikes and whenever i express my socks.

on i am like i was a traitor authorities are promising an investigation but his family like many others say there is no need for one in a country where there is barely been accountability for their own beirut. the iraqi government's been holding funerals for victims of the religious minority killed by i saw in what the u.n. called genocide the remains of 104 people have been examined and identified for mass graves in northern iraq will be laid to rest in line with your city tradition over the coming days i saw took control of their ancestral homeland in 2014 at least 5000 were killed and 7000 women were forced into sexual slavery simona fulton's in baghdad she says investigators are hoping the lengthy process will bring enough evidence to prosecute i still suspect. 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 some giant has been over 3 years since the secure u.n. security council passed a resolution setting up an investigative body to exit those mass graves now of course and are 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 also. very complicated also from a technical perspective the un 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 the survivors have emigrated abroad who 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 the sites which are not just mass graves but crime

scenes and the evidence gathered from these crack crime scenes should eventually be used to try to prosecute eisel suspects 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 and there are concerns that conspiracy theories are continuing to fuel hate. from los angeles on deep web message boards and social media many conspiracy theorists are expressing dismay and disappointment following president joe biden this inauguration last month is believed that somehow trump was not a fit for us and that there would be all these kind of democratic 50 years. out at harrods of the conspiracy theory q. and a 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 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 wild car 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 shyness is high 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 were 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. well as rob's report was mentioning the retailer green is stirring up some discontentment amongst politicians lawmakers on capitol hill in the next hour they'll decide whether she should be removed from committees that she's been assigned to because of a conspiracy theories and other incendiary comments let's get more on that now with our white house correspondent kelly helka joining us from washington d.c. this one marjorie taylor green kimberly how could anyone have intelligently voted for her anyway. well she is representative of as rob reported a large number of americans who have had an enormous distrust in their government for a long time it's why we saw donald trump being elected is why we continue to see. politicians that are highly controversial such as marjorie taylor green being elected as well there is this feeling that they have not been her told the whole

truth and as a result often people come up with their own explanations i think we've seen this really since the beginning of time it's kind of what humans do in the absence of information so that is sort of the sort of the longer philosophical answer to why people might be supporting her but in terms of the fact of representative government there is a controversy going on right now about whether or not she deserves to be on these committees given the fact that there are americans that have elected her so that is the debate this taking place right now now in terms of seeing her stripped from some of these important committees such as the education committee given her views even as radical as questioning school shootings whether or not she should be there given the fact that this is a democrat controlled house it's likely she's going to lose this vote and lose these positions but there's a bigger problem for the republican party peter in all of this and that is the future of the party where does it stand is it going to allow for these sort of

extreme views or is it going to try to move back to the middle and i think we're getting an indication of the latter given the fact that there were many tribes supporters who tried to oust another candidate or rather another representative lynne cheney as of last evening here in washington that was overwhelmingly successful in other words those in the republican party that reflect kind of a moderate view seem to be getting the support the reason they were after lynne cheney was that she had voted to impeach donald trump and many trump backers didn't like. it so the bottom line is this is kind of a figuring out in the post trump era what the direction of the party is we seem to be getting that indication it wants to move away from the strong policies war towards the political spectrum in the middle and i think we're going to see that marjorie taylor green will be when this house votes that vote is held losing some of those positions given the fact that democrats are in the minority in that

chamber so can really if she is bounced off those committees to she become more of a problem not less of a problem you know we know what she'll do don't we she will go to social media she'll talk about it on facebook she'll talk to the people who voted for her constituency and she will say something like they're trying to silence us gang they're trying to stop pos talking about all the bad things that we really know are going on and that's the big problem in all of this and that is what much of the hand-wringing going on in washington is about how do you discipline someone who then can be seen as kind of the martyr for the cause in fact we already know that marjorie taylor green in the in advance of being stripped of these committees is already fundraising saying that she is being silenced this is a marxist takeover of the u.s. government and it needs to be stopped so in other words democrats and republicans some republicans are trying to kind of stop this but maybe adding fuel to the fire can really many things we'll talk to later i'm sure in the meantime thank you so

much can be held at the white house correspondent get changed into a climbing has gone from any sport to a worldwide sensation in the past few years is due to make its a limb pick in july in tokyo nicolas cage reports from kember on 2 australians who are in training for their events. 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 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. a track athlete has to run the marathon $100.00 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 writes our driving field by new gym so feeling 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 a strike 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 cancelled at 9 tame coupled with travel restrictions limiting access to premier

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 and 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. this is al jazeera these are the top stories the 1st shipment of 10000 doses of the russians foot neck vaccine has arrived in iran another 400000 are expected in the next few weeks health care workers and vulnerable groups saw 1st in line to receive the limited doses dorsett jabari has more now from tehran we have heard from officials who said that this is a very welcome news that the 1st ship.