pray pendennis record i kevin hassett president trump top economic adviser said quote we need to be risk averse and that without a major stimulus. negative spiral for the economy this is a grim picture but analysis ass and now says after analysis shows us that the rescue plan would make a huge difference moody's analytics found it would get us to full employment a year faster brookings predicts it would get us back to prepare demick levels by the end of the year and over 90 percent of economists surveyed by reuters found it would drive substantial growth the 2nd question we often get another good question is when we will see bipartisan support for this bill the reality as we see it every single day a certain new survey from navigator research out this morning shows 72 percent of americans support the rescue plan including 53 percent of republicans a quinnipiac poll yesterday found that 68 percent of americans back the rescue plan you gov survey and money sure that over $2.00 thirds support the package so i just

wanted to highlight a couple of those pieces those are excellent questions we get in here but we did a little thinking about your question last thing i just wanted to do at the top. person who's back today again asked a great question about the artemis program which i dug into and i'm very excited about it now to tell my daughter all about it so for those of you who have not been following it as closely through the artemis program the united states government will work with industry and international partners to send astronauts to the surface of the moon another man and a woman to the moon which is very exciting conduct new and exciting science prepare for future missions to mars and demonstrate america's values to date only 12 humans have walked on the moon that was half a century ago the artemis program a waypoint to mars provides exactly. ok we get a sense there of the future direction of travel when it comes to our wish list is where they'd like to go with different issues for us this relatively new bike that ministrations concerned that the reason we went to that news briefing just before

the press secretary took the podium there inside the white house news briefing room was to get some meat on the bones of the biden policy when it comes to yemen committee is our correspondent following that story for us here this hour kimberly what else do we know. well what we know is that the u.s. president was scheduled in is scheduled to visit the u.s. state department today in washington and initially we were told that this visit would be about thanking the diplomatic corps for their support for the last 4 years and the face of the america 1st policy by donald trump many diplomats push back on that and this is something that biden said he was going to thank them for but we've learned in just the last half hour from the national security adviser jake sullivan that in fact the visit is going to entail much more than we had 1st learned in fact it's going to unveil a number of policy priorities for the biden administration starting with yemen as

you mentioned the big headline being that there will be an ending of offenses by our u.s. support for offenses in yemen so that is the top line but there were also other informations that were being passed as well with respect to russia we know that the biden administration plans to have a tougher approach in that respect so there will be some actions coming with respect to russia we also know that there is going to be an announcement today from joe biden with respect to l g b t individuals around the world not just in the united states but ensuring that there will be protections around the world that the u.s. will make that a top priority something that will be done through executive order and finally as well we are hearing that there will also be a new executive order coming with respect to targeted sanctions against members of the military in me and mar and as well that there will be

a consultation that is taking place but we're not getting a lot of detail on that with regard to iran but there is an engagement going on right now with european partners and that will also be forthcoming so there is a lot of meat on the bones if you will that we are expecting. from joe biden himself when he speaks at the u.s. state department getting a bit of a preview there from the national security adviser in the white house briefing room in just the last few moments might we get as well when he talks at the state department kimberley a clearer sense or a bigger idea of how finished finalize formalized his administration is because any number any one of those issues from yemen to human rights around the world to the relationship over the 2015 g. c.p.o. a the relationship between washington and tehran those are number one issues but there are more than one number one issues there are several big issues there for him to deal with. that's right and in fact what surprised us about

this sort of announcement this appearance of jake sullivan in the briefing room is that just yesterday the white house press secretary john psaki had set lowered expectations that was their exact phrasing for biden's visit to the state department saying that this was just going to be kind of a meet and greet so this is a bit surprising and perhaps that has to do with the fact that there was some criticism about why we don't have a clearer picture of biden's foreign policy you have to remember because of covert 19 journalist didn't really get an opportunity to question biden very much in advance of the u.s. election so typically where we would get to delve into these issues we did not have that opportunity so many were not only scratching their head but saying we should be able to ask these questions at the state department clearly now and whether we'll get the questions and there is going to be more substance but to your point on the priorities this is an administration that was elected largely on domestic

issues dealing with jobs dealing with the pandemic making sure that there are vaccinations and this is the conundrum that this white house find itself in because the world outside the united states hasn't stopped these issues of iran out of russia of yemen they have not stopped so they're having to confront these in tandem and that is making it difficult you're right there isn't one priority there is a myriad of them ok kimberly's thanks very much you keep us posted i'm sure in the meantime we'll talk to a little later the u.n. security council expressing deep concern about what's going on in me in manas held a 2nd dimension some easing off the feelings we in a statement in a previous session diplomatic it's a james bays is at the united nations james before we get to talking about me in ma what's your reading of what we think we're going to get from the bite that ministration specifically to do with the yemen just in the next few hours. well

i think if they are ending u.s. support for the war in yemen then that is very significant because the u.s. u.s. has been providing logistical and intelligence support for the saudi military it's worth saying that this is something that candidate joe biden had said he was going to do but he hasn't actually made a pronouncement on yemen for well over a year in the campaign yet to look back in the campaign for the last time we talked in any detail on foreign policy so i think everyone was wondering is he actually going to go through with this it's also worth knowing that he and his secretary of state have not spoken to the leaders of saudi arabia it's getting quite interesting the countries that the new administration have not spoken to at this stage also worth noting in case anyone forgets the war in yemen in terms of the intervention by the saudi led coalition was in 2015 so almost 5 years ago and

remember that wasn't the trumpet ministration it was the obama administration where he was the vice president that originally reluctantly i think gave the green light for the saudis to do this they didn't really want to war but they knew the saudis were going to go in anyway so they sort of gave them their blessing and i guess there will be real militaristic military consequences on the ground in yemen off the back of what we think the by the ministrations going to do diplomatically when it comes to yemen because one of the defining characteristics about the conflict in yemen james is that no one side ever looks like it's just about to win so if the u.s. pulls away diplomatically and militarily when it comes to courts supporting one side or the other that might just tip it one way or the other. or it might it's here at the u.n. they'll be hoping and they won't say this publicly but i'm sure it is the u.n. position they'll be hoping it tips it towards diplomacy if both sides think that

now there is really no way that they're going to win and the saudi coalition loses that little edge it has from u.s. military support then perhaps they'll come back to the table the u.n. special envoy martin griffiths has been pushing him very hard at times he's felt very close to at least starting talking properly and i think here at the u.n. anyway they'll be hoping that the new policy from a new administration compared to an old policy with the trumpet ministration was all in with the on the saudis side might give room for some movements on peace negotiations the other big story you're following there for us james is the what's being said about me and ma what are they come up with. yeah i don't know which of these 2 stories in some ways is more important because in the last half hour we had breaking news which is important very important on myanmar the un security council

finally it had a meeting earlier in the week has come up with a statement they finally can agree some words you might say why is that important well it's important because of what they're saying which is expressing deep concern and calling for all of those detained to be released and emphasizing the need for continued support for the democratic truck transition in myanmar but a statement like this 15 members of the security council doesn't get agreed unless they all agree to the statement that means that this statement has now been agreed by the chinese a permanent member of the security council so the chinese who are not really shown their hand and their view on the coup have agreed to a statement yes the statement doesn't go as far as some human rights bodies i'm sure would like he doesn't use the word coup but it does call for respect for human rights it does call for unimpeded humanitarian access and it calls for the pursuit of dialogue and reconciliation in accordance with the will and the interests of the people of the country the people of the country who we know only just voted and of

course their votes made may void but a military coup worth also telling you peter that when this statement from the security council was released rather oddly the chinese issued their own statement to clarify why they signed the security council statement and they do make it clear that they never blocked a statement earlier in the week they were just was still negotiating it they say the work on the negotiations was not smooth because no original version of 0 draft as they call it of the statement was leaked to the media so the chinese complaining about the process but clearly they've signed up to the statement suggesting that the chinese government has decided it's not happy with this military coup and it's going to support international efforts to protest it is. is it too much of an extrapolation on my part james to think perhaps that the chinese government because that's what we're talking about went to with the statement that you've got there with you because they are quietly quite worried they do not want what is happening

in me and are right now to get worse they do not want an isolated isolationist state treating its own people very badly a neighboring country that they can't have that in other words. yes and i'm sure that is their view with regard to a. to an issue that's on their doorstep on a regional issue and some experts have told me you in the media are seeing the chinese in the me on my military is very close actually there is a real tension in that relationship and has been in the past the other thing of course to look into this is the timing of it all as here we are in the days the early days of a new u.s. administration when both the biden and ministration and the chinese are trying to feed each other out and drugs work out where the promises are and could then be the basis for a reset rather than the basis of the opposite which would be go more in the

direction of a cold war and certainly if they're coming together and there's a meeting of minds on myanmar that's some progress ok james we must leave it there james bays our diplomatic editor reporting live with those 2 developing stories from the u.n. in new york will stay with events in ne and ma an activist group says nearly 150 people have been arrested since the military coup on monday and even though social media is being restricted people are still showing their anger at the sudden departure from the crissy here's i said big. like you have a lot of small protests in the 2nd largest city in the n. ma he students and activists in mandalay are speaking out against monday's military coup but with the military campaign down on internet and social media provide as it's hard for people to communicate and organize protests yet don't have 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 crew 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 arrived where we are 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 their 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 beg al-jazeera ok let's wrap up some other top stories for you the 1st shipment of 10000 doses of the russians buttoning we've seen has arrived in iran another 400000 more doses are expected to be delivered in the next few weeks health care workers and vulnerable groups are 1st in line to receive these limited doses dosage of body explains from tehran this aircraft

brought the 1st sign of good news for millions of iranians since the start of the pandemic nearly a year ago. the russian sputnik vaccines are the 1st batch to arrive and there are 2 more shipments coming later this month these jobs will be given to 430000 health care workers before anyone else and iran has so far purchased 2000000 doses of the russian vaccine. russia sputnik visa because he is 91 to 93 percent considering that the sputnik is designed well in its 2nd doses a stronger than the 1st doses we expect 91 to 92 percent efficacy in our country and more importantly the sputnik. in very serious cases of the disease 100 percent with iran is the worst affected country in the middle east with nearly 60000 covered 1000 deaths a more than 1400000 people infected the shipment comes at a critical time when the country is trying to avoid another wave ahead of the rainy

new year in mid march that's a time when families visit each other in large numbers president hasn't rouhani has warned iran cannot afford another lockdown and he's urging the public to continue to observe protocols set out by health officials. iranian scientists have also been working on their own vaccine 2 of which are now in human trial phases and officials are hopeful they will be rolled out in the next few months. despite severe economic sanctions on iran's banking sectors officials say they have purchased 18000000 doses of foreign vaccines but not those made in the us or britain supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei has banned the import of vaccines made in those countries saying they cannot be trusted on thursday iran recorded 67 deaths it's the lowest daily rate in the past 8 months but there's still a long way to go before the country is able to vaccinate enough people to achieve herd immunity officials say they hope to end their mass vaccination program by

early next year but that may come too late for many iranians who are desperate for any sense of normality in their lives for such a party al jazeera to run. their new warnings about consequences for the world of developing countries don't get access to the code with 19 vaccines the international federation of the red cross and red crescent societies says 70 percent of doses administered so far have been and the world's 50 wealthiest countries they say this vaccine inequality could lead to further mutations of covert 19 the group is developing a plan to fund jobs for 500000000 people in poor countries without equal distribution even dual who are vaccinated may not be sick if the latter pockets of the globe remain on vaccinated the over 1000 vaccine vitus we continue to sharpen and we continue to mute today we add our voice again to calls for the quantity and fairness otherwise we risk going back into that back as days of the pandemic and

what have we discussing days that are even darker and did yes. in a world 1st researches at oxford university are going to explore if it's effective to mix to use of the fires and astra zeneca coronavirus vaccine scientists will evaluate if you can alternate between the 2 for primer and booster shots if it's still effective using one of each vaccine they believe it would offer greater flexibility for immunization globally and might even increase immune responses will also be evaluating how important the timing is between doses some people taking part in the study will get the 2nd shot after one month others after 3 months earlier we spoke to dr. senior clinical research at the trial in oxford at oxford university she says the trial is of crucial importance. we have certain rights given to terraces of the same vaccines that the m.r.

kneedler scenes or the book said byron back to back scenes are safe and to active but we want to look at is whether giving different back scenes here her 1st and 2nd work just as well using different types of scenes has been used in typical trials before and we haven't used them are in a backseat with other sorts of vaccines in the past and what we're wanting to do is seeing whether these approved vaccines can be used safely and effectively in combination schedules the flexibility of using 2 different vaccines means that on an individual level level it will be much simpler to deliver a vaccine. to a 2 to one person so if you turn up at your g.p. surgery you have one vaccine and then you come back to have a 2nd vaccine a bit later if that's a different vaccine that's not a problem but we need to have to gather the data to show that and that also works on a on a why disco era nationally and globally because different vaccines will be approved at different stages and at different times and there might be issues of vaccine

supply livery to different the sibling able to mix and match different vaccines with huge team. speed up and make more efficient a plan to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible there is also the intriguing possibility that by using 2 different backs and platforms we might have a more robust or effective immune response we don't know that but we will be studying that in detail with all of our participants were also looking at different dose intervals a half of our participants would have the 1st and 2nd dose 4 weeks apart and the other half will have their vaccines at the festive 2nd vaccines 12 weeks apart and so we're hoping to report the preliminary data from our 1st batch to from the bits with the full interval in around early may and possibly jane and with the trial the control will be looking at around july august time and then of course there is the

ongoing data collection not only for safety but also you're looking at longevity of ability we need says how long do they last. back to the states the u.s. house of representatives will those in the few hours time on whether to remove a republican congresswoman from her committee assignments marjorie taylor green has been criticized for promoting far right conspiracy theories rob reynolds sent us this report on growing concerns in the states about hate groups across america 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 has been victorious and that there would be all these kind of democratic for years sort of put on trial at harrod'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 he's i don't think it's ever been hotter than it's been as long as i've been covering racism anti-semitism and hatred of so-called elite 7 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 grieve the republican party that enabled trump for years has seen an influx

of hardcore conspiracy theorists for example the newly elected republican congresswoman marjorie taylor green is a firm believer in the q a non-fantasy sound many americans are blind and when they hear these stories about pedophiles and they hear the stories about satanic worship they don't want to believe it straight they just don't another possibility the far right and conspiracy groups may split with republicans and form their own party and if we see some kind of breakaway political party or some kind of charismatic elegiac were other type of leader that will supercharge the rest what seems almost certain is that the threat of right wing political violence whether perpetrated by so-called lone wolves targeting minorities or more organized plots against the government and its officials will be a feature of the american political landscape for some time to come robert oulds al

jazeera los angeles. international criminal court has found a ugandan rebel commander dominic unwin guilty of war crimes but the case is an unprecedented one because unwin is a perpetrator and victim unwin was part of the lord's resistance army but he was himself abducted by the armed group at the age of 9 and forced to become a child soldier even so the court found him guilty of ordering the killings of civilians and abducting children and that he did so of 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. or dick to 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 state vasant 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 judge's side the main question of course on the table here for the duchess. is there is 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 able he was aware of what he was doing he could have escaped and he didn't so also 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 a lot 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 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 when 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. the iraqi government is holding funerals for victims of the years e.g.

religious minority killed by what the u.n. has called genocide remains 104 people have been examined and identifying from mass graves in northern iraq will be laid to rest in line with the tradition over the coming days i still took control of their ancestral home and in 2014 at least 5000 people were killed and 7000 women were forced into sexual slavery so men of olson'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 jar and it has been over 3 years since the secure u.n. security council passed a resolution setting up an investigative body to exit you 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

a spear 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 a brought 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 crack crime scenes should eventually be used to try to prosecute i saw suspect. strong winds have found a bushfire at the western australian city of perth at least $81.00 homes have been destroyed more than $250.00 firefighters have been battling the blaze is there well

several large air tankers are being used to dose the flames organizers of the australian open tennis tournament say it will begin on monday even though 500 players and officials are being forced back into isolation in melbourne a worker at a hotel has tested positive for corona virus just days after players finished a 2 week or untying on arrival in australia if players test negative they'll be allowed back out of their rooms there's been no action at warm up events on thursday because of that particular situation. this is al jazeera these are your top stories so far the u.s. is ending support for offensive operations in yemen president biden's national security adviser has just announced a number of foreign policy changes jake solid.