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house of representatives strips a conspiracy theorist of her policies in congress. and how climate change is threatening hundreds of thousands of birds in the himalayan with. u.s. president joe biden has laid out his vision for america's foreign policy is promising to restore u.s. leadership on the world stage and repair alliances that were fractured during the trump years biden announced he was ending u.s. support for offensive operations in the saudi led war in yemen including a ban on the sale of specific weapons he also spoke about the coup in me and and russia's treatment of opposition figures are state department correspondent robin jordan reports. u.s. president joe biden delivered his 1st foreign policy speech at the state department and made news. on the long running war in yemen where saudi and rati forces have

allegedly targeted civilians with u.s. made weapons this war has to end and to underscore our commitment we are ending all american support for offensive operations in the war in yemen including relevant arms sales. and the coup in me and mar the mermaid's military should relinquish power they have seized release the advocates and activists and officials they have detained lift the restrictions on telecommunications and refrain from violence. and on russia's imprisonment of the political activist alexei novelli he should be released immediately and without condition biden speech which also touched on china and on reversing the trumpet ministrations dismantling of u.s. refugee policy was short but specific a reflection of the years he spent leading the senate foreign relations committee

a former u.s. diplomat says he supports biden's action on yemen the u.s. going to be considerably to that war now the u.s. is saying i will no longer continue to this war i will not she will and with weapons shipments year i would like you all the big followers and the regional powers to do the same and that was something new the other part of biden's foreign policy agenda repairing an agency that lost hundreds of experienced employees and suffered considerable budget cuts during the previous administration morale had crashed especially during the tenure of former secretary of state mike pompei o who many diplomats believed used the agency to boost his political ambitions. in a separate speech to state employees biden said things will be different america is back diplomacy is back you are the center of all

that i tend to 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 the new administration's promise to try to restore the u.s. his reputation both at home and around the world rosalynn jordan al-jazeera washington well biden also addressed china he proposed to stand up to beijing on key issues but he also promised more cooperation also take on directly the challenges posed by our prosperity security and democratic values by our most serious competitor china will confront china's economic abuses counter its aggressive course of action to push back on china's attack on human rights intellectual property and global governance but we are ready to work with beijing

when it's in america's interest to do so well brought bof a is a research fellow at new america that's a think tank he told us more about biden's foreign policy objectives in me a monument we're in for 4 years of more tense relations with the saudis probably the chances we've we've ever see going back to the to the reagan administration they've had the red carpet laid out in front of them and by now has a lot of issues with them does it leave the assassination or jamal khashoggi the journalist in the saudi embassy or consulate in istanbul the war in the end and the problems with iran we have a lot of issues that we want to go on the table with the saudis. so the united states does not have a lot of influence in myanmar we don't have any interests there there's not a lot of trade there's no military to military relations no intelligence relationship that we have to speak of long term so of the ladders the carrots and

sticks the have there are a lot of different saudi arabia which completely depends on united states for a holiday for most of its weapons purposes and for the protective dome that they offer from iran we don't have that from the on mark we have to work a lot with the united nations and you have to remember china is also one man neighborhood and they have a very good relationship with the generals and the previous went. the u.s. house of representatives has taken disciplinary action against a republican congresswoman who has supported wild conspiracy theories marjorie taylor green has been removed from the education committee and others to which she was assigned she has supported conspiracy theories than like posts on social media which call for violence against democrats jabatan see reports. at the debate on whether to remove her from a committee positions at the house of representatives taylor green argued that all she was guilty of was querying established narratives i was allowed to believe things that weren't true and i would ask questions and questions about them and

talk about them and that is absolutely what i regret because if it weren't for the face book post and comments that i liked in 2018 i wouldn't be standing here today among the viewpoints that she's expressed support for all of the q and on conspiracy theory and the belief that school shootings and $911.00 were hoaxes these were words of the path but she's also approved of exhortations to kill house speaker nancy pelosi as well as racist and anti-semitic troops i did not hear a disavowal meant or an apology for those things. i did not hear an apology original spin for the. the claim the insinuation that political opponents. should be. violently dealt with the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. the democrats are setting a precedent which privately some fear may be used against them if the republicans

regain the house effectively demoting someone in the other party for comments made before he or she joined congress but in the case of marjorie taylor green they say they had no choice i remain concerned about hastert having this leadership except of extreme conspiracy theorists but greene received a standing ovation from republican colleagues at a meeting on wednesday night underscoring republican leader kevin mccarthy insistence that his party wants what he calls a big tent that includes the courtroom base the number one thing that happened in conference was unity donald trump remains the most popular figure in the republican party able to draw out grassroots turnout and draw in grassroots campaign contributions but ever since the storming of the capital more and more mainstream republican voters are growing easy with the viewpoints of that core base plus the

republican leadership is well aware that donald trump's most vocal supporters are loyal to him and not of them shihab rattansi al-jazeera capitol hill. one of. his been arrested. is a former political prisoner who spent decades campaigning against military rule all the members of the party met on thursday to show their anger against the judge that deposed them instead they were ordered to leave their compound in. prevented from taking their seats in the new parliament democratically elected politicians from the national league for democracy have met anyway a symbolic session surrounded by armed guards at a government guest house i hear from. since representatives from the end of the party are all elected civilian representatives weak and called the parliament anywhere parliamentarians are present so we called for

a session and signed our oath and we are going to stand as parliament representatives people voted for us to be in office for 5 years and the result cannot be raised. around 70 gathered on thursday and sign their oaths of office hundreds of lawmakers were detained for a period after monday's military coup. this violates the human rights of the whole population this is not a coup this is treason against the government i have to say that this is state treason. symbolic acts of defiance by politicians and the public against a military known to put down by like protests that history in mind people are sticking to red ribbons and 3 finger salutes originally from the hunger games film franchise it was popularized by pro-democracy protests in neighboring thailand all calling to end the dictatorship. thanks. then at 8 pm the sound heard round and gone for a 3rd night in

a row in local culture it said that banging pots and pans can drive evil from a home. there was a lot of people who we are going to be the most people across the country are banging pots to drive out the military coup leaders who are no free. will keep driving out these evils until power is a return to our government. and al-jazeera. well outside of their homeland more people from in ma live in thailand than anywhere else in the world al-jazeera scott hyla spoke to some experts in the city of chiang mai but worried about their families back home. praying for peace and serenity in the thai city long known as a hub for me and mars diaspora through decades of conflict and military coups migrants dissidents and ethnic fighters have found their way to chiang mai so in myanmar's elected leadership was ousted in monday's coup it cut deep into the community here. funk wang was there in 1962 when the military 1st took power away

from his civilian government he later became a soldier in a kitchen ethnic army for 10 years he fought the military for autonomy with his experience he thinks violence is not the solution now and political pressure should come from people like him. i am worried about my country men back in myanmar not just my relatives the military may be in power for many years to come. i do not support violent protests in the cities then these people abroad should play a big role they don't have to live in fear from the bemused military. chiangmai has unique history in culture different from the rest of thailand and that's possibly why so many ethnic groups that have crossed the western border have decided to settle here but it's difficult for them to stay connected to their communities in myanmar and. so on long among gone runs a migrant radio network it was formed 25 years ago in chiang mai to keep the many

migrants from me and more informed. the network has been reporting on the coup since the 1st hours of the takeover a lot of the listeners were shocked and worried. i have to keep my listeners updated on the situation they need information to make decisions people wore eat the concerned about the future. a show of solidarity in front of the chiang mai myanmar consulate a nighttime gathering of anti kook protesters thais and migrants making themselves heard this in support of those who put themselves in danger by going out on the streets of myanmar to denounce the coup and scott joins us live now from chiang mai in neighboring thailand scott let's talk 1st about these reports that a top aide a bang sang suchi has been arrested that what more do we know well that's what we know that he was able to actually place a few phone calls as he was being arrested when tain is really you know a very important member leadership member of the end of the on songs you choose

party and we know that he was a very close top aide to her he himself was a political prisoner as she was for years so this is kind of like going back in history if you will because he has been detained now there's concern about him because his health is not that good he's 79 years old and he has had health issues over the last several years so there's concern about that but definitely sending a message to the military by kind of casting a wider net bringing in more people for detention than we've seen over the last couple days at the top leadership now they're going deeper into the political party and scott you know there are in chiangmai where there's a significant ex-pat community was the atmosphere there among them since the. what's been very interesting here as as we saw in that story that we did hear over the last couple of days you know there is a very large ex-pat community myanmar ex-pat community here in chiang mai and in the surrounding area along the border so there is

a lot of sympathy for what's going on because a lot of the people who are here now originally came because of economic reasons or because of political reasons so what they see going on in myanmar now is a great concern to them what was interesting and that the last pictures we saw in that story that we did out in front of the consulate the myanmar consulate here in chiang mai a gathering of about say maybe about 100 people protesters but what's interesting is a song pro-democracy song that they saying there is something that sprouting up over different protests in other nations as well as in myanmar you know it's very interesting song about pro democracy and how they will fight to the end to get return to democracy so so that's obviously something that's appears to be coming through to the fold as as an anthem for this movement this anti could move me and i guess you could boil it down to banging pots and the song being sung they're all right to scope out on the line for us in china in time and scope thank you. time for a short break here not just here at when we come back china's state broadcaster c.d.t.

and runs into problems of the thirty's in the u.k. . and a social media backlash of a sexist comments made by the tokyo a limp exchange bar and that stay with us. for the perfect. sponsored point qatar airways hello we've got some welcome warmer weather coming into japan over the next couple of days you still got some wintry weather to get out of the way some sleet and snow still in place across western parts of honshu into colorado for friday but it's 12 celsius there for getting up to 7 in soul behind that will be some cloud and rain just moving across the east china sea and that will roll its way just to the south of q shoot for sas table to the temperature 15 celsius in tokyo could add to the the melting snow that we have here so there is always still a worry of some flooding as

a result of that 10 celsius in seoul by this day's double figures 2 for beijing and for the weekend it doesn't last you try and find across a good part of china try and find to across much of indochina because the usual showers driven in the northeast the monsoon there into the philippines into malaysia where we see the heaviest of the showers running across indonesia some wet weather to making its way towards sri lanka over the next day or so but doesn't that bad as we go on through friday for a state with snow just scouting across the far north of india helping to just shift the focus and the smoke that will make its way further east with some wet weather coming in across the pool dry weather coming back in behind but poor visibility is once again. sponsible qatar airways al jazeera is investigative unit goes undercover tracking down an international organized crime network. colonic combat. to

exposing direct links to corruption at the highest level of the bangladesh government. the fact. that. al-jazeera investigations all the prime minister's men. or. welcome back a lot of our top stories here this hour u.s. president joe biden has set out his vision for american foreign policy the drawn support for saudi arabia's war in yemen and to repair global alliances that were fractured during the trump years. the u.s. house of representatives has taken disciplinary action against

a republican congresswoman who has supported wild conspiracy theories margaret taylor green has been removed from the education committee and others to which she had been assigned. and politicians belonging to deposed. party have defied the military and met in a symbolic session of parliament a top aide of suchi has been arrested. for civil disobedience following monday's coup. china's state run television channel c g t n the will no longer be able to broadcast in the united kingdom after regulators revoked its license the u.k. has been a leading critic of china's crackdown on dissent in hong kong and alleged use of slave labor in june jang the blocking of c.d.n. as yet another diplomatic dispute to the already frayed relations is really challenged. europe with a relaunch and a new name late in 2016 china put a fresh face on its english language t.v.

news brand china central television was now china global television network or c.d.t. n president she urged its international staff to tell china story wealth spread china's voice well but it's a voice that the u.k.'s media regulator of com has decided shouldn't be heard anymore in the u.k. revoking the broadcasters license said our investigation concluded that star china media ltd the license holder for the c.d.t. and service did not have editorial responsibility for c.d.t ends output as such as c m l does not meet the legal requirements of having control over the license service and so it is not a lawful broadcast licensee. the chinese foreign ministry says it firmly opposes setting barriers to chinese media's regular activities in the u.k. shortly after or coms ruling china said it had large stern representation to the

b.b.c. over quote fake news coverage and urged the b.b.c. broadcaster to apologize. the u.k. has been a leading critic of china's hong kong security law and its crackdown on protests it's also legislating against business is profiting from alleged slave labor in china as we get camps and it's ousting tech giants who are way from sensitive parts of the u.k.'s 5 g. network. so c.d.t. n. is the latest focus of attention in the u.k. china relationship it's been deteriorating for several years i think the idea really was that it would probably liberalize and change not become a democracy but become a little bit easier to deal with and under siege sieging ping the current leader that's not true and it's become a. harder towards the outside world on issues like hong kong and soon going. on taiwan it's got a much harder line now so it's more difficult diplomatic partner logic might

suggest that a post breaks it britain would want to swallow some of its political differences with the world's 2nd largest economy but at the moment at least if the politics that the dominant rory chalons how does iraq. morocco's foreign ministry has summoned the spanish ambassador for the treatment of moroccan migrants in the canary islands a video circulating online appears to show spanish officers beating miners despite their pleas for the violence to stop the footage has sparked a wave of anger in morocco the mistreatment of moroccan migrants and spain's detention centers has been an ongoing issue in recent years a long time activist and fierce critic of the lebanese political party has been has been shot dead his death has provoked a public outcry no one has yet claimed responsibility for the killing so what are reports killed by 4 bullets to the head and one in his back look man slim 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. the beloved menorah 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 in spanish and going on there's nothing to say about democracy in lebanon this. this is a summation that we are going into the air office the summation. for many slim's killing brought back memories of the post 2005 period when former prime minister ricky kirby and other politicians opposed to syria and its allies 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. 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 things about criticizing his ally particular. because of was the most this in the web and then look man hailed from the same sect as hezbollah shia islam he lived in the group stronghold and was killed in the group's heartland for more than a year anti-establishment protesters have been demonstrating to bring about a change in leadership and for the 1st time those protests spread into strongholds of the mainly sectarian political parties including hezbollah which was accused of protecting the system many blamed for running the economy into the ground. the

protesters were attacked by hezbollah and hamas supporters and journalists have been harassed. journalists trying to shake stock and express my stocks in. the sector and i am a traitor. authorities are promising investigation but his family like many others say there's no need for one in a country where there's barely been accountability. they route dozens of protesters have been arrested in a pause capital katmandu after rallying against a government decision to dissolve parliament and call a snap election it was part of a nationwide general strike called by a faction of the ruling communist party prime minister k.p. sharma only says there's been a conspiracy against him by members of his own party who plunged into a political crisis in december but only dissolved parliament during a power struggle. a medical trial in the u.k. has been laws to see if giving people different coronavirus vaccines for their 1st

and 2nd dose well off at the same protection study will mix the astra zeneca and finds a biotech jobs mix vaccine doses have worked for a bowler and h.p.v. the man leading the trials says it has the potential to speed up the rollout of code with 19 jobs if you have somebody who's turning up for a vaccine having received sex in a after their 1st dose and their local surgery doesn't have any and he has vaccine be there obviously would be a great advantage if you can just go and had them on that day so it can be at that local level but even a broader regional if there was a problem faxon supplying one regional one or even at a country level would be really beneficial so it doesn't matter you can actually get the other vaccine instead there are new warnings about consequences for the world of developing countries don't get fair access to cope with $1000.00 vaccines the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies says 70 percent of doses given so far have been in the world's 50 wealthiest countries they

say this inequality could lead to further mutations of cope with 19 the group is developing a plan to fund jobs for 500000000 people in poor countries. cuba's capital had on it and its more than 2000000 residents will be under nightly curfew starting on friday the country's been struggling with a rising number of infections cuba reopened its airports in the bend and the government says new cases are linked to travelers breaking quarantine. portugal's essential workers have started receiving their coronavirus vaccines as the anger grows over a slow rollout the health ministry says it's seeing a decline in deaths and cases after their numbers surged in recent weeks but the government's facing criticism for delays to its vaccine plan estimated that by 2023 only 70 percent of all adults in portugal will ever see their jams prime minister antonio costa blames the delay on the supply shortages and e.u.

authorization the head of the tokyo olympics organizing committee has apologized over sexist comments he made about women but says he won't resign you're sure maureen reportedly told a meeting of the japanese olympic committee that meetings with female directors can take a long time and are annoying the 83 year old is under pressure to step down with a hash tag more please resign getting traction online. thousands of migrating birds in indian administered kashmir are going hungry because of an intense cold spell the birds travel from as far as siberia in the winter but climate change and urban growth are disrupting their nesting areas correspondent elizabeth cohen has the story. it is a welcome sight and sound every winter hundreds of thousands of migratory birds fill the skies of india administered among the geese eager its docks and cormorants all travelling thousands of kilometers from eastern europe japan and turkey to feed

here botch the himalayan wetlands of the coming less welcoming. part of. it's always cold this time of year but this year it's too harsh it's making a difficult for the birds to find food on their own we've started artificial feeding by giving them paddy grains. this winter temperatures have dropped to minus 10 degrees celsius wildlife officials are forced to break the ice on the wetlands before scattering paddy grain they were their boats out onto the lakes to cover as much ground as possible without us or we work really hard to. as these days the water surface at home freezes you have to make a feeding you spread the grain and try our best so that these words don't starve. around half a 1000000 migratory birds have visited the wetlands since the venter but their numbers have declined in recent decades years of climate change and urban

development to being blamed selfish shrunk from nearly 900 square kilometers and 969 to 12.8 today but the 10 security situation in the area has made it difficult to address an environmental issues in the valley a region known as much for its natural beauty as the decades long battle against indian rule elizabeth parata al-jazeera new delhi. time for a quick check of the headlines here on the al-jazeera u.s. president joe biden says he's ending american support for offensive operations in the saudi led war in yemen including a ban on the sale of specific weapons and his 1st foreign policy speech since taking office biden also spoke about the coup in manama and russia's treatment of opposition figures his promise to restore america's leadership in the world and repair.