riskin uses sierra leone. on al-jazeera. the usa is always open for the people the world people pay attention to walk on here and i do see it is very good at bringing the news to the world from here. this is al-jazeera. hello again i'm peter w. watching the news hour live from our headquarters here in coming up in the next 60 minutes to be able to deal with both great power competition and the transnational threats that the american people face winds of change in u.s. foreign policy the biden administration delivers on its promise to end its role in offensive operations in yemen.

as anger grows against the coup in myanmar the un security council finally condemns the military takeover. a new frontier in the fight against corona virus researches in the u.k. explore whether different vaccines can be mixed and still be effective. also this no mercy a ugandan child soldier turned rebel commander is convicted for crimes against humanity. i'm sorry all the sports football's kabul cup is underway in capital cases take this i think also south korea and i think that i. begin this news with some breaking news coming to us out of the united states the

white house and also the united nations we're hearing that the biden ministration is. delivering on its election campaign promise to find chuen indeed to change u.s. foreign policy very specifically the top line on this developing story very specifically what's happening on the ground in yemen of course a 5 year long conflict with no one side winning that particular calm conflict can really help it is our correspondent tracking that story kimberly what's the u.s. footprint on the ground if there is one in yemen anyway. well currently the united states has been offering not just intelligence support but also weapons sales something that has been pushed back on by the u.s. congress but this is something that into the trumpet ministration was overridden and so now we see joe biden as he intimated on the campaign trail signaling

a very different approach when it comes to not just support of the saudi led conflict there but also the hand that the united states has played in this role in that support so what we're getting from the national security adviser jake sullivan as he spoke in the briefing room a short time ago is that eminently joe biden the current u.s. president will make the announcement from the state department in the coming hours that the united states will now be ending all support for the saudi led conflict in yemen that of course the united nations has called a humanitarian crisis we also expect that during this speech that will be made at the state department that joe biden will also be announcing a special envoy who will be working to essentially try and bring about peace no tall order there are certainly a tall order what we know about this individual his name is timothy lender king that he is well known in the diplomatic corps he has been working on yemen affairs

as well as saudi affairs for some time and we understand he's going to try and encourage the warring parties to a cease fire he's going to pursue this freeze on arms sales to saudi arabia and also potentially that 11th hour designation of the who things as a terror group by the united states by the trumpet ministration that we know has led to a difficulty in delivering humanitarian aid we understand that is also being considered for being rescinded under this new policy so these are the headlines that are coming out of the announcement that we expect to be made by joe biden in the coming hours is the hope in the part of the biden has been a straight this in a sense might push the competence towards diplomacy because diplomacy has taken a backseat definitely over the past year or 2. the u.s. president is going to speak to that directly in fact we've just received some excerpts of his speech and really that is the common thread throughout the excerpts

that we are looking at here diplomacy now going to be the top priority of this administration a complete turnaround from the america 1st policies of the trumpet ministration the last 4 years the president's going to tell all of us that are listening to the speech that he's been talking to canada mexico the u.k. germany france nato japan south korea australia list goes on about re forming the habits of cooperation and rebuilding the muscles of democratic alliances that have after a feed for 4 years of neglect and abuse it couldn't be much clearer what he's saying is that i'm in charge now things are going to be different and the closing line of this excerpt particularly poignant he says the united states will again lead not just by the example of our power but by the power of example and that moral authority of the united states has certainly come into question in recent years something that the biden administration says it will seek to once again have

a leadership role on the global stage kimberly many things can really help get our white house correspondent let's bring in bill curry former u.s. deputy chief of mission in yemen he's currently nonresident senior fellow at the atlantic council rafik hariri sense of for the middle east he joins us live from washington on skype welcome back to the news this move on the part of the bite didn't ministration will clearly raise eyebrows in certain capitals it will make people react in other capitals what will it actually achieve however. i think 1st of all it's a sign of how serious this administration is on bringing back diplomacy and working at the center and upfront. and on restoring american moral leadership and world affairs in this case the focus should be

on ending the war in yemen this is something that's been and this is a rate that for a while given the progressive wing of the democratic party prevailed on by them to put this into his campaign after he was formally nominated. they shrum they won ministration started the review of all strategic policies and specifically towards ending the war in yemen and the relationship with saudi arabia in general sort of this is a sign that there are serious and moving fast ending the war in yemen 5 easy words a sentence which is very easy to understand we did have a peace process in scandinavia in stockholm 2 years ago it went no place we had the u.n. special envoy martin griffiths who tried and tried and tried again to get people to

talk to each other it went no place where what is the at each component of the ingredient here is it just as simple as this is what the u.s. president says and this is what the u.s. president wants. no i would say that for the last 4 years certainly u.s. diplomacy was not deployed to solve their humanitarian problem in yemen and the previous administration was simply interested in arms sales throughout the gulf going to spec their vote what damage notes arms were causing this is a sign that the said the station is going to change that it is not just the word of the us president he is also appointing a special envoy to yemen and this is something which we have not had for the best 4 years so that's in addition to the irregularly appointed ambassador. and the thing

with the united nations on boy is that he were without real backing from the big powers and now for the 1st time he will have the strong diplomatic pressure and presence of the u.s. behind this of words so i expect in london king well as a very good good interviewer diplomat and well has been looking after notes for fares in general including yemen for about 10 years now my expect him to be making exhibits soon and to be directly involved in these negotiations saying from the sidelines that we support where she should be a drawing not be a hurry for diplomacy on the part of the white house is of course to be commended but the reality is the conflicts in this region in the middle east are dense they

are complex and loyalties can shift and change by the day if only because different groups on the ground employ a revolving door policy when it comes to arm. guns and who fights alongside who or who fights opposite against another party involved in the conflict are we saying something different here about the bite that ministration are you saying that the biotin administration unlike the trumpet ministration understands all of that and understands the conflict in yemen yes they do and they have for the 1st time in 4 years now the real professionals and regional experts working with them on these issues so it's not just one person winging it from the white house or the conflict in yemen in particular respond to

an internal culture their struggle for power among yemenis but they quickly it turned into a regional and then an international problem so this administration will focus for as long getting the international and regional aspects of that war all in agreement that this war should end starting with the example of the u.s. because for the for and really it's funny that during obama when by that was vice president. of the u.s. going to be that considerably to that war now the u.s. is saying i will no longer consume bute to this war i would not fuel him with weapons shipments one year i would like you all the big powers and the regional powers to do the same and that is something new and personally i am optimistic it won't be easy but this is a very good 1st step. always good to get your insights on the events in yemen and

also i guess the consequences outside of yemen as well good to talk to so i thank you very much. sure. the u.n. security council today expressing deep concerns about the military coup and meehan ma it's held a 2nd emergency meeting after failing to agree on a statement in a previous session the council is calling for the immediate release of political prisoners in a moment we'll have more from our diplomatic effort to james bays at the u.n. but 1st we have this report on the situation on the ground from. small protests in the 2nd largest city in the end 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 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 email 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 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 rango were forced to flee persecution deposed leader aung sun suu she was largely silent about their plight now finds herself at the messy of the very same generals as that big al-jazeera james with the details from the u.n. headquarters building in new york 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 i'm 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 it 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 by 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 big sign 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 in the original version

a 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. lots more still to come for you here on the news hour including we'll take a look at the role conspiracy theories are playing in the u.s. and what may be just around the corner. they were murdered in their thousands by i saw in iraq years later the government holds funeral ceremonies for years eating victims. and climbing to new heights one snitch scored 2 sets of make an olympic debut will explain when we come back with the sports news that will happen about 30 minutes. in the world 1st researchers at oxford university in the u.k. 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'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 soon be evaluating how important the timing is between doses some people taking part in the study will get the 2nd shot after a month others after 3 months earlier we spoke to dr mahesh ramasamy a senior clinical research on the trial at oxford she said the trial is of crucial importance. we have given tutors years of the same vaccines that the m.r. need or the book said by or that to back seems safe interactive but what we want to look at is whether given different back scenes here her 1st and 2nd work just as well using different types of scenes has been used in 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 we're also looking at different dose interval say 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 target interval we'll be looking at around giant over. time and then of course there is the ongoing data collection not only for safety but also you're looking at longevity in june ability we need is how do they know. there are new warnings about consequences for the world of developing countries don't get fair access to the covert 19 vaccines international federation of red cross and red crescent societies 70 percent of those is administered so far have been in 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 dogs who are bassinet it may not be said it last pockets of the bloop bloop remain on vaccinated there could be 1000 vaccine vitus we continue to sharpen and we'll continue to mute today when we add our voice again to quality quality and fairness otherwise we risk going back into baucus days of the pandemic and perhaps we discussing days that are even darker and deadly as the 1st shipment of 10000 doses of the russian sputnik vaccine 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 the limited doses dosage of body

has more 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 these advocacies 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 . 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 lock down 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's 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 there are said to bury al-jazeera to. brazil's health agency has ditched phase 3 trials to speed up vaccine approvals the chinese made sign of a vaccine is already being used and the government wants to buy a 30000000 doses from russia and india on weapons day the makers of the oxford astra zeneca vaccine are seeking regulator ie approval to set up a production help in brazil the brazilian air force has started transporting coronavirus patients from hard hit. state hospitals there are full and facing oxygen shortages so far the military has flown 470 patients out of the city brazil remains the worst affected country in the region. now developing story out of the state's u.s. house impeachment managers have asked the former president donald trump to give

testimony under oath about his conduct before the capitol building riots on january the 6th 5 people lost their lives our correspondent she had her tanzi joins us live from inside the capitol building so she had requesting mr trump does something and mr trump doing something 2 different things maybe is this an invitation that he can't decline. i wouldn't think so it's not a subpoena it's a it's a rather polite letter which says look we would like you to to give us testimony which we can then cross-examine under oath because you have made a number of statements which contradicts what we believe are the facts not inviting donald trump to to testify virtually any time between monday and thursday of next week the actual impeachment trial begins on tuesday but it then has it's going to keep paragraph at the end which is if you decline this invitation we reserve any

and all rights including the right to establish at trial that your refusal to testify supports a strong adverse inference regarding your actions brackets and in action on january the 6th 2021 so pushing this and saying look if you don't come we're going to take this as a sign that if you're. if you're what will take an adverse inference and they're asking for a response no they to them on this friday but frankly both republicans and democrats really do want to get this over as quickly as possible i mean we're expecting this to be a long drawn out process where they'll be a major campaign now undertaking to get donald trump to testify under oath and be cross-examined i think both republicans and democrats want this trial that begins next week to be over with as soon as possible and members of the chamber there on capitol hill as well this beginning the process of pause. removing female republican senators from various committees that she sits on because she she

propagates untruths but people still voted for and she's still there but you have a committee member who goes with all these conspiracy theories. right it is a really important important moment both for the republican party and for the republican leadership this is happening because the democrats said to the republicans look if you don't take action if you don't take marjorie taylor green off the 2 committees that she sits on given that she is someone who in the past has at the very least supported if not. q. and on theories you know that the world is controlled by a murderous paedophile including bill clinton and so on as well as you know jewish lasers cause in the california wildfire at the school shootings are. hoaxes but also the magic racist tropes that she propagates if you don't do something about her position to actually be influencing policy specifically on the education

committee which come and education policy in the u.s. then we will do something last night his oath wednesday night the republicans had their meeting and instead of actually taking taking her off that committee they gave her a standing ovation and kevin mccarthy the house republican leader here made it very clear that he's taking this gamble that the republicans can remain this big tent party that can have the mainstream corporate republicans who basically. main goal is just to reduce taxes on the rich and cut regulation but in order to get those things done you still need that extreme right wing base that propelled trump into power and he still thinks he can control it and you can see why you think that the republicans have done this in the sixty's with their southern strategy which would racists and segregationists of the party who hated civil rights legislation they've always had this big tent of extremism they have a difference that some in the senate feel which is why they're a bit worried is this is a different kind of right wing extremist because they hate the establishment as

well they may not fall in line simply vote for the republican agenda once they're in the big tent and not only that corporate donations are beginning to dry up so there is that fear among other republicans particularly in the senate of the republicans. having let this this type of extremist in they might lose control of the party and they'll be just too too gloomy for even the corporate democrats you know who you know corporate republicans you know the republicans who have their best interests at heart to support them we have a lot of this is about money but mccarthy the house guy knows what corporate corporate money drying up at least there you still get the money from the strong base if we keep them in the tent and i think that's driving a lot of the over the discussion out of the republican party interesting time she have thank you so much she have returned to their reporting live from washington still to come here on the news for you the u.n. reveals the scale of the hunger crisis in afghanistan a nation devastated by decades of. the world's 1st the recipient of a full face and hands transplant continues his recovery. and 500 tennis

players and officials are back in quarantine in australia we'll have details coming up in sport. and i weather looks pretty west across northern parts of the middle east over the next couple of days a fair amount of cloud writes the ad snow piling across the levant easing out of that eastern side of the mediterranean and that wet weather all the way down across northern parts of saudi arabia or actually right down to mecca where we see this line of cloud and rain we are likely to see some localized flooding as you can see it extends across a good part of iraq into western parts of iran and it will continue to just drape its way further north woods and east which as we go through the next day or so is a here with warm sunshine southerly winds picking those temperatures up to about

$23.00 celsius on sas stay here is looking settled and sunny but not quite the clever pushing through kuwait up towards northern areas of the region so that sunshine that comes down across the gulf of aden yemen look. dry i'm on fine in try as is the case too into somalia central parts of africa saying quite a rash of shall i say the same very nicely running right down the rift valley some heavier rain there into the democratic republic of congo angola eastern parts still seeing some very heavy rain and some wet weather for a top most affecting southern areas of botswana showers popping up into north east and south africa and zimbabwe. from. the philippines this biting to restore induct saying not. only deny any wrongdoing or. one of many students to guides on al-jazeera.

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welcome back welcome if you're just joining us you're watching the news are coming to you live from doha this hour i'm peter dhabi your top stories the u.s. is ending its support for offensive operations in yemen the u.s. president joe biden is set to deliver a speech at the u.s. state department imminently announcing a number of changes to foreign policy. the u.n. security council expressing course deep concerns about the military could be in markets over seconded next see music after failing to agree on a statement in a previous statement the council is calling for the immediate release of political prisoners. and the 1st shipment of 10000 doses of the russian sputnik vaccine has arrived in iran tehran's expecting another 400000 in the next few weeks health care workers and vulnerable groups off in line to receive the limited doses. of the international criminal court at the hague has found a ugandan rebel commander dominic unwin guilty of war crimes but the case is an

unprecedented one because on going is a perpetrator and a 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 step has more from the hague. 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 dark. is there's a victim or a perpetrator or is through 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 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 a lot a lot of discussion about how old he was when he was abducted the charges say 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 the corpus 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 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 this conviction. a funeral for more than 100 victims from iraq suzi minority has been held in the capital thousands of years you

were killed in 2014 in what the u.n. labeled genocide reports from baghdad. these trucks carry the bodies of 100 for years edis murdered by eisel nearly 7 years after their killing they are at last on their way to their final resting place they were among thousands killed and buried in mass graves in the northern region of stenger and at a 1st to be identified using d.n.a. analysis after their remains were exempt from the mass graves. now they have a name a face a family to return to. in life the iraqi government didn't protect them from isis systematic campaign of killing and kidnapping in death it is trying to grant them the respect they deserve. today's funeral procession is a message that terrorism targeted members of this oppressed community and iraq

today wanted all the world to sympathize with the fall and there should be justice and punishment for the perpetrators. but for this group of easy to survivors who met iraqi parliamentarians on wednesday the government hasn't done enough they say the exhumation of the dozens of mass graves in sindar is taking too long. the mass graves have been there for 7 years they're not under isis control anymore anyone can go to these mass graves but nobody cares. they also accuse parliament of dragging its feet to enact a draft law that would almost 5 years after the un has done so recognize the crimes committed against them as genocide it would also grant them compensation and create a mandate to search for the approximately 3000 still missing. female survivors don't have rights and we are always repeating our demands per

rights for us and for our brothers sisters mothers and sons who are still in the hands of isis the government is always saying icily is finished icily is gone but why did nobody bring our families back the easy to survive a law was submitted to parliament in 2019 but voting has been repeatedly delayed if passed it would also lay the legal basis for iraqi courts to use evidence gathered by u.n. investigators to prosecute suspects 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 the objective of thursday's ceremony wasn't simply to return the bodies but to the knowledge the crime with the hope it will not be repeated the 100 for remains will be transported to the village of cultural center where they were returned to their families and laid to rest in line was it a tradition for the fear or real for some closure for survivors the struggle for justice and rights is far from over they want to hold on al-jazeera. the belgian court has convicted an iranian diplomats for attempted to terrorism and sentenced him to 20 years in prison as a dollar assad was found guilty of plotting to bomb an opposition rally outside paris and 20183 of his accomplices jule iranian belgians were also given jail terms

and were stripped of their belgian citizenship is the 1st time an e.u. state has charged an iranian official with terror offenses iran strongly condemned the decision. a long time activist and fierce critic of the lebanese political party has bala has been shot dead his death has provoked a public outcry but there's been no claim of responsibility is in order. 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. had the love not nor in this country you are 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 the freedom of expression is vanishing given all there is nothing to say

about democracy in lebanon this. this is a summation 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 and are over 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 his ally think he killed her. because of 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 groups heartland. for more than a year anti-establishment protesters have been demonstrating to bring about the 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. protestors were attacked by hezbollah and hamas supporters and journalists have been harassed. journalists from the stock and when i express my socks against the politics of the sect and i am like i was a traitor authorities are promising an investigation but his family like many others say there's no need for one in a country where there's barely been accountability center could there be a root. protesters have taken to the streets of nepal's capital katmandu to rally

against the government's decision to dissolve parliament and call for a snap election farce of the ruling the power communist party of the action has also announced a general strike the prime minister k.p. sharma early is alleging he spirity against him by members of his own party plunged into it from the crisis in december when the only dissolved parliament amid a power saucily. nearly half of afghanistan's population suffers from hunger every day according to the united nations decades of war and rampant corruption of crippled the economy a recent wave of targeted killings as well as the pandemic has added another layer to the misery of afghans osama bin reports. everyone needs a trim but even then malik's business is suffering in addition to not having the money afghans are also scared to venture out of their homes the young entrepreneurs modest business was robbed but no one has been held accountable. and there is

scared we're used to stay open until 10 pm on a now we close our own 7 scared because it is not safe at all. yet and that the rise in violence has dwindled hopes for peace despite talks between the government and. all sides seem to be biding their time as the biden administration decides its outcome policy in recent weeks judges journalists and members of the civil society have been targeted. in the petrol cycle i said the responsibility for attacks on government holds the taliban responsible which denies attacking civilians to pursue boxwoods terrorist organizations especially the taliban who disperse if i'd targets in attacks try their best to create a gap between people in the security forces and also the government but they don't succeed in all their agendas. that blame game and a failure to protect civilians whether from a pandemic or rising it-i. it's also taking

a social and psychological toll be so. many of our loved ones the youth women men and children are terrified all the time they anticipate an explosion when they feel they might die any time or they feel somebody is following them and they might get stabbed or shot by a thief and get killed one. by one politicians have told others there that rampant corruption inadequacies and nepotism have pushed of understand towards unseen levels of desperation. for the last 8 years more than $5000000.00 people have been displaced from their homes despite billions of dollars in aid a staggering 72 percent of obama stands population lives in poverty and now with a covert 1000 pandemic u.n. relief workers say 4 out of 10 afghans suffer from hunger every day. nearly 40 percent of guns have been employed at least but the ones that jobs are scared every time they go to work. we spend the whole day in fear panic and concern our lives

are in real danger therefore due to these problems i had to send my family somewhere else so we can limit our movement in and around the house will do to destroy your life has become hell for us. no peace means no justice injustice means no economic opportunity i thought it was the lack of prospects often means crimes and corruption until that cycle is broken many of dan's believe their future remains a bleak. job there still to come here on the news for you the sports news and the club world cup is up and running in qatar action from the opening match coming up in just about.

welcome back thousands of migrating birds in indian administered kashmir are going hungry because of an intense cold spell now the birds travel from as far away as siberia in the winter but climate change and growth of disrupting the nesting areas our correspondent elizabeth purana has the story. it is a welcome sight and sound everyone to hundreds of thousands of migratory birds filled the skies of indeed administered kashmir among them geese he quits docks and coal mines all traveling thousands of kilometers from east to shift. and turkey to feed here botch the himalayan wetlands of the coming less welcome and. that report just a little bit earlier will go back to if we can for fortune looking at right now is

the u.s. secretary of state mr blinken warming up before we hear from jill biden and the u.s. president's major foreign policy announcements coming we understand from mr biden we've been trailing it here on al-jazeera we have heard as well from kabul harris the new u.s. vice president it is our top story of course here on the news mr biden what we know he's going to say about american involvement in the continuing conflict in yemen we're also expecting him to talk about relations between washington and russia let's have a listen in to see what mr blinken saying used to you the president of the united states. wanted was being to be thank you thank you thank you i want you to thank you jerry. thank you

for walking vice president me back to the state department it's true the secretary and i have worked together a long time and i know. i know that he has the background the capacity needed to quite frankly lead the state department at a critical moment there's been a difficult few years i've been hanging around as the foreign relations committee and chairman and then vice president and now as president for a long time dealing with state. those of you who work carried a clue to the new class of diplomats that we've that iran on the screen behind me. you're among the brightest most involved best educated group people america has to offer and but i come today to talk to everyone

at maine state watching remotely and and those who will not be able to see this but will hear about it you know an incredible group of diplomats that i've had a chance to work with and what we never talk about is you not only have great intellectual capacity you have great personal courage i mean with some of you when we've been shot at and there were some of you when we've been in places that you had that not have any idea you'd want to be when you were going to school foreign policy and foreign service and never told you what i was going to happen but you're an incredible group of individuals and i've said many times over the years those of you who are stationed. overseas and have been stationed overseas you're america's face your people see and the country you are they look at you you are the face of america and it matters and matters a great deal how you comport yourself and how you deal with the folks that

you're dealing with in that particular country i find it. many of you among. the most and current and by the way i think what we don't do enough we don't thank your families we don't thank your families for the sacrifices they make. i make sacrifices real sacrifices i don't know how many times i have moved again and moved to see to it that your spouses they give up their careers many times to follow you many times their careers are as consequential or more consequential than yours but they do it for the country and they're to be thanked but the main message that i want to communicate to you all is that whether you're part of the newest class of foreign service officers you've worked for decades in the civil service or foreign service or you're locally employed staff you're vital and

success the strength of our nation depends in no small part on you later today i'm going to go up on the floor and send a clear message to the world america is back america is back diplomacy is back you are the center of all that i tend do you are the heart of it we're going to rebuild our alliances we're going to reengage the world and take on the enormous challenges we face dealing with the pandemic dealing with global warming and again standing up for democracy and human rights around the world again as i said you're the face of america abroad and an art ministration you're going to be trusted and you're going to be empowered trusted and empowered to do your job but i ask each of you know

abide by a few core tenets integrity in all you do you said again integrity in all you do transparency and accountability to rebuild trust in america around the world working in the service of american people . not self-interest and promoting diversity equity inclusion accessibility across the board because our diplomats at all levels should reflect the full diversity of this great country i know how much we ask of you and your families and i mean that i do know it's been a long time i've been dealing with this building and all of your predecessors the sacrifices you make are real and not recognized much by the country as a whole they don't know all that you do i also know that you have never let us down

i believe in you i believe in you we need you badly i trust you i'm going to have your back that i promise you just like you're going to have the backs of the american people when i always point out to people in the years when i was chairman of foreign relations committee i'd make sure that my foreign relations committee staff came to my home state and work and constituent services which many of thought were sort of beneath them i'm a foreign policy specialist but it's all about who you work for who i work for who we work for the foreign policies about promoting the interest of the people of the united states when a rubric and

a set of principles to treat everyone with decency so i promise you i'm going to have your back i promise you and i expect you to have the back of the american people now i've got there were a lot of work to do and a lot of catching up to do. a lot of rebuilding to do. and i can't think of any group of people better capable of doing it more ready than all of you so thank you thank you thank you i look forward to working with you. and look forward to coming back from this auditorium is filled and no one has to wipe down the podium. thank you you are the heart and soul of who we are as a country and the rest of the world is looking to you tell them understand us and so we can help them as well so thank you all very much and may god bless you and

may god keep you all safe when you're brought thank you. god in the u.s. president getting a little. reception around the. what he described as being the class at the u.s. state department if you're anything like me you probably thought that was the speech that wasn't the speech the speech the big speech that we're waiting full on foreign policy will be happening in a little 45 minutes from now he said to the new costs at the state department we have your back i have your back we are back and he also went on to say just like you have the backs of all the american people he was basically signaling delivering on what he was talking about jury a long long. nasty election campaign but of course he won he won decisively he won clearly this is

a major turn away from the days of the trumpet ministration where the trumpet ministration was driving foreign policy where foreign policy was one $140.00 or $240.00 characters on twitter and then somebody close to mr trump would basically reassess reevaluate find shooting something that this trumpet said particularly in relation to u.s. foreign policy in the middle east or to do with u.s. foreign policy to do with other major capitals around the globe mr biden they're signaling clearly for anyone who wants to listen in to that speech in what 45 minutes as i say that u.s. foreign policy is taking on a new moral tone that was the word we were getting from one of our guests a little earlier here on the news talking about a moral imperative particularly to do with the ongoing more than 5 years now the ongoing conflict in yemen we will continue to gauge reaction to what we think is going to be in that speech what we know is going to be in that speech when we come

back here on al-jazeera colleagues in london from the next i will see you tomorrow from 15 g. from everyone in doha thanks for watching see you soon. as the deadline approaches for unrestricted access to iran's nuclear program will u.s. president joe biden overturn trump sanctions and help rebuild relations tensions escalate and hopes of reigniting a nuclear deal with iran. special coverage of iran's nuclear program on al-jazeera . as information on governments responses to covert 19 across the world emerges so

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similarities of cultures across the land. that no matter what happened nancy al-jazeera will bring you the news and current affairs for that matter t.f. . outta zinger. reshaping u.s. foreign policy president joe biden is expected to announce the u.s. will and its support for the saudi led offensive in yemen. hello i'm maryam namazie and london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program the united nations security council finally condemns the military takeover nehemiah and calls for democracy to be restored.