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program the un security council says it is deeply concerned by the situation in myanmar calling for democracy to be restored. and the 1st shipment of russia's spawning vaccine arrives in iran health care workers will be among the 1st to receive that. hello welcome to the program our top story president joe biden has delivered his 1st significant foreign policy speech at the state department he spoke about restoring u.s. global leadership conceding that washington's more authority and credibility have been damaged and now is the time to mend those fractured relationships and alliances he also spoke about the war and yemen why 5 years after the launch of the saudi led military offensive the country is suffering from the world's worst humanitarian crisis president biden said the war has to end and pledged u.s.

support for u.n. led peace efforts america is back america is back diplomacy is back at the center of our foreign policy as i said i'm are in order to address we will repair our alliances in gage's with the world once again not to meet yesterday's challenges but today's and tomorrow's. american leadership must meet this new moment in advance and authoritarianism including a growing ambitions of china to rival the united states in the terminations of russia to damage and disrupt our democracy we must meet the new moment accelerating glow of the accel earning global challenges from the pandemic through the climate crisis to nuclear proliferation challenging the will only be solved by nations working together and in common we can't do it alone. is life for us now from the

white house and i guess alan it was more about values and time and then the details of policy but tell us more about the purpose of the speech. it is very much a broad brush at this point but what is in there is an implicit criticism of u.s. foreign policy over the last 4 years the front for that of course was rex tillerson and then more laterally might pompeo but it was driven from here at the white house by donald trump and jerry krishna what joe biden is saying is that the american foreign policy simply didn't work because although every american president would think america 1st he says there are alliances that you've got to acknowledge and being clued working with your friends and colleagues and your alliances as well he says that the united states has lost its moral authority and he accepts that domestic policy and foreign policy must walk hand in hand because he says that are things here in the united states that have to be fixed essentially the u.s. can't go out and criticize other countries when they could turn around and point to

things like the black lives matter movement or the fact that there were huge civil rights disturbances across the united states over the course of the trump presidency including the protests that we saw at the church not far from here when the peaceful protesters were cleared with a chemical additives so joe biden acknowledges that but he says that you've got to try and work slowly to put the u.s. back to the forefront of world affairs to be a leader one more time he's also talking about a policy for the middle classes now how would foreign policy impact on what the middle classes do he believes that every time they look at a foreign policy no matter how it's impacted the should think how does this impact an ordinary u.s. family are there benefits for them so sort of thing like if there was a trade war with china so very well getting involved with a trade war in china but does that impact an ordinary american family will they be washed or will they be less secure he said if that's the case then you don't do that he says they're still going to work with the likes of russia and china the 2

biggest adversities when it's in the benefit of the united states but he's also going to take a hard line when he thinks. that has to be a hard line taken so this is really a step away from america 1st implicit criticism of donald trump with actually mentioning his name and now he plans to and us have for offensive operations in yemen alan but things may be a balancing that also by saying that there would still be a close relationship with america's traditional ally saudi arabia. that's right he says this is a no surprises foreign policy that the informed the united arab emirates and also so to review before they took this step but we knew it was coming because kind of it joe biden talked about this on the campaign trail he said he was going to do it we know that there was bipartisan support in congress in $21000.00 to stop arms sales to saudi arabia but the trumpet ministration push through a waiver to allow them to do that he says this is ending but what he's also done is

appoint tim linder king as a special envoy to yemen you know linda king is well known in the region he's got relationships in most of the important capitals he's a career diplomat he's pretty well respected for more i can gather and so he will try and find a way 1st of all to get a ceasefire in yemen and then perhaps work on a longer term deal because joe biden says that has been a problem over the last 5 years he called it a humanitarian and strategic catastrophe and so they're looking at various things they might be able to do one of the 1st things they may consult is whether or not to remove the designation of the who sees as a terrorist organization that impacted things like getting food supplies into yemen so that may be something that they reexamined in the very adly days but it's clear that this is going to be a very different foreign policy driven from the white house than it was under donald trump thank you very much alan fischer at the white house thanks sanjay. and

there has been this brief response actually from the who sees themselves the they responded to that speech from president joe biden and of course specifically their remarks on yemen in a tweet the spokesman says he said that the real proof for peace in yemen is to stop the aggression and lift the siege of the well the biden administration is also considering sanctions in response to the coup in may and moderate least 147 people have been detained as protests against monday's military takeover gathered pace unsung suchi and the deposed president both face charges and if convicted it won't be able to work in politics again i said back reports. of i don't think small protests in the 2nd largest city in myanmar these students and activists in mandalay are speaking out against monday's military coup but with the military campaign down on internet and social media providers it's hard for people to communicate and organize protests yet all kind of we have no access to any news no

news about mother on song suchi i feel so sad it gives me a pain in my chest i would rather go out and fight if possible but that would be against the wishes of mother sue. facebook is a central part of life in myanmar it's why the military has shut it down seems as if the military is really going after the primary social media platforms including facebook which really is the internet in myanmar most people including people within government agencies use facebook almost as if it was an 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 we had just protesting peacefully by wearing this red ribbon we don't need to speak out we all know that playing the ribbon is

a sign of protest against the military government and the only want our elected government this is a message many people have likely not seen such a military presence on the streets since the 2011 democratic reforms. despite the apparent anger at the social media ban and the international condemnation of the coup the generals who have fast 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 pearl who is largely silent about their plight now finds herself at the mercy of the very same generals as that big al-jazeera. well the un security council has called for the military to release and sang section but they stopped short of condemning the coup or a firing took the 15 member council stressed the need to uphold democratic institutions and respect human rights al-jazeera is diplomatic editor james bass is

at the united nations. the statement took several days to negotiate but it is significant it shows security council unity and that china is on board with criticism of the military in myanmar it was read out by the current president of the security council the british ambassador barbara woodward the members of the security council expressed deep concern at the declaration of a state of emergency imposed by the military on the 1st of february and the arbitrary detention of members of the government including state councilor unsung suchi and president when mint and others they called for the immediate release of all those detained. the members of the security council emphasized the need for the continued support of the democratic transition in me and she wasn't taking any questions but the spokesperson for the un secretary general said he was pleased

there was security council unity on this issue i think it's very welcome that relatively quickly the council came together to speak with one voice human rights groups of welcome the security council statement but they say words must now be matched with action. first shipment of the russian sputnik vaccine has arrived in iran the country hardest hit by the krajina virus and demick in the middle east health care workers and the vulnerable are going to be the 1st in line to receive the doses dosage of by has more from tire on 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 v. prevents death in very serious cases of the disease 100 percent odds with iran is the worst affected country in the middle east with nearly 60000 covered 1000 deaths a more than $1400000.00 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 and off 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 or so to bari al jazeera to iraq. still ahead on the program a child soldier who rose to rebel commander now found guilty of war crimes by the

international criminal court. and they were murdered in their thousands by ice so in iraq years later the government holds funeral ceremonies easy to victims. however we got plenty of rain in the forecast for australia over the next couple of days 2 areas of cloud and rain at the moment one just around the way a tropical low that's going to run its way down towards perth as we go through the next day or so that will have an impact on the bushfires of the currently causing problems here with the strong winds may not be all good news it will at least bring some rain the next one will last making its way through the bite and that's going to bring some very heavy rainfall in across that toria flooding rains because the river flooding we could see coastal flooding as a result of that very wet weather which will push its way further eastwards

damaging winds as well that weather runs up across a good part of new south wales and for good measure another circulation just developing around the gulf of carpentaria so some very wet weather rolling through here there's that cloud right into the southeastern corner melbourne will cheer up 24 celsius in the sunshine fine and dry meanwhile across new zealand open getting up to 25 degrees we'll see some dry and warm weather also coming into japan over the next day or so still a few wintry flurries around for friday they are in the process of making their way further east was 12 celsius there in tokyo warming up nicely as we go on into saturday highs then a 15 degree celsius. the philippine despising to restore the docks aine. i think that the glory deny any wrong belief. 10 when he stood mr gates on al-jazeera.

al-jazeera with every. with. the with. the only. quick look at the headlines now u.s. president joe biden has promised to restore u.s. global leadership and to mend fractured diplomatic relationships and his 1st significant foreign policy address the president also page support for u.s. led peace efforts in yemen saying the war has to end. at least 247 people

have been detained in me and maurice protest against monday's military could gather pace the u.n. has spoken out shop the against the move away from democracy. and the 1st shipment of the russian spotting vaccine is arrived in iran the country hardest hit by the crowd a virus pandemic in the middle east health but health care workers in the vulnerable are the 1st in line to receive jabs. now the house of representatives will vote soon on whether to exclude exclude controversial u.s. republican congresswoman marjorie taylor green from several official committees greene has expressed support for the killing on conspiracy theory and other extreme using cluing advocating violence against democrats al-jazeera shavar tansey is live for us from capitol hill and shout tell us more about the reaction within the republican party how much concern has that been about these remarks from marjorie taylor green. there was concern but then it seems off to kevin mccarthy the

house republican leader thought it through he decided to just simply isn't taking the chance of imperiling support from the trump base and not just imperiling support but provoking dissent from the base this is this obviously very vocal an important part of the republican party is that many people often say this is trumps down and there's no there's no way that that kevin mccarthy wants to anger them especially as they approach the midterm elections they want their money they want their support they want their turn the problem is and this is what you hear more on the senate side of capitol hill where we are right now is in in do everything you can not to offend that trump extreme core base your turning off increasingly the mainstream republicans particularly in suburbs in various states that the republicans desperately need if they want to get majorities in the house

and senate i mean it's interesting actually already there you're seeing more and more local republican parties now having many more laws on the books or attempt to get laws on the books to prevent turnout to run african-american turnout all this going stuff because i think the briley begin to worry that their demographic is beginning to disappear and having extreme trump conspiracy theory type people and will only make that even worse but kevin mccarthy has made made the decision we need these people in the big tent of the republican party for now and he feels he can control it but again in the senate they were wait a 2nd there in the old days when we brought in right wing right wing extremists into the body which the republicans always have and they have since the sixty's we always know they're going to vote with al so they'll vote for a corporate agenda of tax cuts deregulation this new trump cool they don't loyal to the republican leadership and they're not loyal to the corporate agenda that the republican leadership have they're suspicious of all of that so that's the wild card that. what they're playing with now and the republican party. and we have also

learned confirmed by president trump's lawyers that you won't be testifying at the senate impeachment trial. yeah initially we have a bit of a surprise today when the that the democrats sent that letter to troops was asking for trump to testify at some point between monday and thursday of next week the impeachment trial is on tuesday would be under oath he would be cross-examined and the democrats said if you decline the invitation we reserve any and all rights including the right to establish at trial that you're refusing to testify supports a strong adverse inference regarding your actions and inaction on jodi the 6 when capitol hill was stormed we got this response which calls the letter a publicist a stunt and it wasn't quite clear whether whether they were actually said he's not going to testify but now they have clarified and said he will not be he will not be testifying. in in the impeachment trial that still leaves open the possibility the

trunk could be subpoenaed but that's really really unlikely both republicans and democrats just want to get this over with now especially since the charms of conviction is so slim it really doesn't look like that will ever happen ok thank you she wants young capitol hill. ugandan child soldier turned rebel commander dominic away and has been found guilty of 61 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity by the international criminal court in the netherlands despite being a victim himself at one time judges ruled he was still fully responsible for his crimes it was abducted by the towards resistance army in northern uganda when he was just 9 years old step vasan reports now from the hague never before has the international criminal court heard such a long list of guilty verdicts and never before would a crimes these gruesome attacks against the civilian population. murder attempted murder torture and slave meant outrages upon personal dignity

pillaging destruction of property and persecution numerous psychiatry's looked into on one's personality he was described as a monster by some witnesses after he was kidnapped at the age of 9 by the lord's resistance army or the al or a he spent nearly 3 decades in the bush the atrocities he has been convicted of include sex crimes that took place when he was in his twenty's the judges decided that he was mentally able and fully responsible for his crimes when this verdict the judge would have given a clear and firm answer to the question of whether a moment on one is a perpetrator or victim this question has haunted the trial for the last 5 years the seemingly endless list of crimes that on one has been convicted are hard to digest for some but observers say that this sentence will send a harsh message to all those who are against their will i become involved in a war at a young age and once a lawyer calls the verdict a bombshell this concept of victim papa traitor to me is rubbish

once a victim all is a victim you have deprived me of my childhood how do you expect me to after 15 years on the stroke of midnight become 3 begin thinking like an adult i felt relieved. years. danielle ocean believes on when i was fully aware of what he did he was shot by the ela ray and became an orphaned refugee at the age of 6. threw me. that's the pain. if you're going. to be pointed. right observers who followed the trial closely say there was a lot at stake for the i.c.c. this is their 1st case and today's the 1st judgment in the case of uganda and they

needed somebody to carry the can perhaps for all the atrocities body and our lord's resistance army so he's become the face of evil the maximum sentence on one is facing is 30 years in prison only in cases of genocide and the i.c.c. impose a life sentence it will take months before on one knows what the sentence will be step fossum al jazeera the hague. iraq's government has been holding funerals for more than 100 members of a religious minority killed by i.c.l. in what the united nations has called genocide at least 3000 years edis were killed and 7000 women were forced into sexual slavery after i still took control of their ancestral homeland in 2014 so not a fault in reports now from baghdad. these trucks carry the bodies of 100 for years edis murdered by eisel nearly 7 years after their killing there 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. another 1st to be identified using d.n.a. analysis after their remains were examined 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 i still see the magic 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 $3000.00 still missing. the female survivors don't have rights and we are always repeating our demands for rights for us and for our brothers sisters mothers and sons who are still in the hands of isis the government is always saying i still is finished i still is gone but why did nobody bring our families back the easy to survive

a lot 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 eisler suspects justice accountability truthtelling proper investigations fair trials are critically important not only to expose the violent extremist ideology of dyche. but it will do that also but to ensure that the value of human life is underscored and that those individuals are exposed and confronted by those that have survived in a courtroom by hard evidence that is reliable that is relevant that our 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 took knowledge to crime with the hope it will not be

repeated the 104 remains will be transported to the village of cultural center where they will return to their families and laid to rest in line was it a tradition for the funeral we offer some closure for survivors the struggle for justice they were clearly writes is far from over so want to hold on al-jazeera but without. now and always stories of following mining giant valets reached a multi-billion dollar settlement with brazilian authorities for the collapse of the burma denio dam that killed $270.00 people 11 people are still missing some 2 years on the rupture unleashed enough mining waste to bury the equivalent of $300.00 football pitches $7000000000.00 payment to minister riot state will be used to compensate the families of victims and fund projects throughout the affected region. the head of the tokyo impacts organizing committee has apologized of a sexist comments he made about women but says he won't resign if shearer mori

reportedly told a meeting of the japanese olympic committee on wednesday that female members talk too much in meetings and they're annoying the 83 year old who is also the former japanese prime minister is now facing pressure to step down with the hash tag mari please resign gaining traction online the. persecute i would like to take back what i said i also want to apologize to the people that were often the . do you shoot through cold milieu. i have no intention of resigning really i have been supporting i'm working hard for the tokyo games for 7 years i'm not thinking of resigning. quick bit of news from denmark the government has approved plans to build a groundbreaking energy island to store and distribute green energy the artificial island will be linked to hundreds of wind turbines in the north sea around 80 kilometers off denmark's west coast it comes a month after denmark decided to halt all plans to search for oil and gas in the

north sea and to commit totally to renewable energy. was more right here al jazeera dot com for an in-depth look at the news you'll find al-jazeera investigations that comment analysis and of course you'll find us on life streaming plenty of video on demand to al-jazeera dot com. our main story this hour u.s. president joe biden has promised to restore u.s. global leadership and to mend fractured diplomatic relationships in his 1st major foreign policy address the president also pledged support for u.s. led peace efforts in yemen saying the war has to end where 5 years after the launch of the saudi led military offensive country is suffering from the world's worst humanitarian crisis america

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