during. god knows. whether. or are. i've rarely a rare pauper. america is back diplomacy is back u.s. president joe biden announces a major shift in foreign policy as his administration seeks to overhaul america's global standing. and i our money this is al jazeera life and also coming up the yeas are 230 and the nays are 199 the resolution is adapted

here and on supporter margery taylor green as out the u.s. house punishes the republican congresswoman removing her from 2 high profile congressional committees. a longtime activist and critic of hezbollah is killed in lebanon provoking a public outcry. and how climate change is threatening condors the thousands of birds in the lane when the. u.s. president joe biden says he is ending american support for saudi led war in yemen including a ban on the sale of specific weapons and his 1st foreign policy speech since taking office thought it also spoke about the coup in myanmar and russia's treatment of opposition figures his promise to restore america's leadership in the

world and repair alliances that were fractured during the trump. all state department correspondent roseland 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 iraqi forces have allegedly targeted civilians with u.s. made what 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 arm sales on the weekend coup in me and maher 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's 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 can simply add 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. all that i tend to do you are the heart of it we're going to rebuild our alliances are going to really gauge 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 well in jordan al-jazeera washington biden also talked about china and said he would stand up to beijing but work together when needed we'll 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 the pushback 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 and in congress the house of representatives has punished a republican member who was supportive while conspiracy theories monetary tight agreement has been removed from 2 committees shavar towns he reports on the unprecedented measures taken by a divided house. at the debate on whether to remove her from my 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 28 team 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 tropes i did not hear a disavowal meant or an apology for those things. i did not hear an apology or denouncement 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 family concerned about house republicans leadership except of extreme conspiracy theorists but green 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. and a close aide of she has been arrested when 10 is a senior party figure a former political prisoner who spent decades campaigning against military rule you had a call for people to carry out acts of civil disobedience following monday's. searches and all the party members remain to find despite the military crackdown they met on thursday to show that anger against the. elected representatives was supposed to open a new session of parliament on monday to winning the embers election by a landslide is that of course the military power and arrested along with. reports. 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 here. 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 she needed. 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 ballot 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 and local culture it said that banging pots and pans can drive evil from a home. we are here most people across the country are banging pots to drive out the military coup leaders who are known for the seize power will keep driving out these evils until power is a return to our government. and al-jazeera. the un security council has also called for the deposed civilian leader aung san suu cheese immediate release held a 2nd emergency meeting after failing to agree on a statement in a previous session is that diplomatic get a said james base 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. still ahead on al-jazeera 3 months on tens of thousands of refugees will. get here. when you're not done. it's time for the perfect. sponsored plan qatar airways howie we've got right in the forecast for good parts of the middle east over the next couple of days cloud and rain driving in from that eastern side of the mediterranean sweater weather there just around the levant syria lebanon jordan right down across israel pushing across the palestinian territories into the sinai peninsula rather wet weather and that so making its way further

a swiss through iraq and this law in a very heavy rain running all the way down towards central parts of the red sea through america that is likely to cause some flooding as we go through the next day or 2 notches a little further east which as we go on through saturday so that wet weather chance of flooding some sleet and snow to coming into western parts of iran running down across cuba i think is going to make its way across here in cots finance right pleasantly warm temperatures around 23 celsius and that dry weather stretching down across say yemen adam on into somalia the usual showers just around the rift valley will see some wet weather there just coming in to uganda making its way across a good part of the democratic republic of congo cloud and rain that's also traipse its way down into much of south africa so in northeastern parts of the country saying some rather wet weather along with botswana and that's not going up into mozambique. qatar airways ok

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president joe biden has set out his vision for american foreign policy ease with strong support for saudi arabia's war in yemen and pledged to repack global alliances that were fractured cheering the trompe is. 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 had been selling. politicians belonging to depose myanmar leader aung san suu kyi have defied the military and met in a symbolic session of parliament top aide of suci has been arrested when 10 call for a civil disobedience following monday's. let's go straight to scotland is joining us from china my neighboring thailand took us through these arrests that were made overnight including a key aide of on. yes that came early morning

hours on friday here in thailand and myanmar what it was is when taint has been right next to on sun suchi pretty much threw the most of her political career and his political career and he was taken by authorities very early morning he said it sounds as though he was fairly calm they allowed him to place a couple of phone calls but he is in detention now a little bit a history of him this is why there's great concern you know a very very top aide to on song suchi he's 79 he's in poor health so that is the part of the concern he has been in prison several times before for over a decade because of what he his stance against the military rulers of myanmar in previous terms and then obviously now they have put him behind bars again or in detention i should say again because of his views against what the military did on monday in this takeover the the democratically elected government you were in thailand where there is of course a big ex-pat community what they've been saying to you about what's happened.

well they're very concerned obviously you know because what's going on in their homeland a lot of the people that we speak with here in chiang mai chang mai is a hub for the expat expatriates in in thailand for me and mark this country has the largest number of expatriates from myanmar in the world so they're very there's a very rich community here we want to be last night thursday evening there was a demonstration in front of the consulate the myanmar consulate here in chiang mai and what people are saying is that they're very concerned obviously but what they want to do is they're trying to raise the awareness global awareness international community awareness about what's going on there and it's interesting to see how these protests that we've been seeing social media clips from stills and video coming out from myanmar and what they're doing on the streets of myanmar and that is banging pots and pans that we've been seeing they've been singing the same song this is kind of become the anthem of the movement they did that here in chiang mai

last night their growing concern because you know the international community is starting to voice grow its intensity in the condemnation of what has happened over the past week we saw from the u.n. security council finally issuing a joint statement about what's happened here in the past week the people here are concerned to keep that momentum going to keep the pressure on the military government in myanmar but from their actions it doesn't seem as though that that attention and that pressure is swaying them at all again increasing arrests and we haven't seen anyone who was detained earlier in the week released and we know now still that facebook has been blocked at least until the 7th of february. bringing substate from china thailand many thanks. that's a hong kong which is issued sweeping guidelines hts calls on how to teach children as young as 6 about beijing's controversial national security law students will learn about tough penalties for anti-government offenses schools have been asked to

teach primary school children how to sing china's national anthem and to learn about the police and the people's liberation army they've also been asked to stop students and teachers from shouting political slogans but they claim to endanger national security are to be removed from libraries young people have been of course of the heart of the anti-government protests in hong kong. a voting machine company is suing fox news and 3 of its hosts for conspiring to spread false claims that the company helped steal the us presidential election. florida based smartmatic usa says fox aired at least 13 reports falsely stating or implying the company was involved in voter fraud is now asking for $2700000000.00 it's also suing to form a lawyers rudy giuliani and sidney powell who acted for donald trump. more because of 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 stop the footage has sparked a wave of anger in morocco. 3 months after the start of an ethiopian government offensive in the northern region refugees still arriving in neighboring sudarsan aid organizations say many are left stranded on able to return to their homes are now hosts more than 60000 refugees in the state of and got a reef from way about morgan reports. it's the 3rd day of waiting for to be registered abyss refugee camp in sudan. she wants to be able to save her own shelter the camp is her 2nd home since your skate fighting in ethiopia stigler region weeks ago. i was in

a different camp before things were tough there to the extent that i thought of returning back to ethiopia but i was told by those arriving that it was still not safe to return and that the fighting is ongoing so i agreed to be transferred here the camp which opened in early january now hosts more than $13000.00 if you are refugees they fled their homes because of fighting between the government and the regional to great people's liberation front it started in early november and has left the region with little to no way to communicate aid agencies see humanitarian access to many parts of to grey have also been restricted to need but camp is the 2nd open to host the refugees who've been relocated from other camps that were closer to the sudan border. refugees continue to arrive there with lesser numbers for the start of the conflict reception centers were served as caps and assault and battery for not meant to be camps because for the safety of the refugees to be at least 50 kilometers away from the international border so we're

working to bring those still they're here to be able to give them protection and services more than 60000 have arrived in sudan since the start of the conflict government says this is a law enforcement operation its soldiers captured the to green capital in december most of the refugees here have been in camps for nearly 3 months now arriving just days after the start of the ethiopian government offensive into grey of those arrived more recently but the rise in the number of refugees coming to sudan despite some reporting that if the soldiers have made it difficult to cross the border is an indication that the conflict integrate is not over and with the continuing flow of refugees aid organizations say their appeal for funding to respond to the situation is only have met. concrete and presently a few which are required around $147000000.00 us dollars. be able to at least. 100000 refugees

it doesn't mean that we have already 100000 refugees there nor that they will arrive all of them but we need to be fair them for that. one refugees are expected here in the coming days and weeks while many say they prefer to meet but camp to the reception centers they were at earlier they say what they really want is the ability to return home morgan al-jazeera to lead but camp out of state 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 saying a couple 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 longtime activist and fierce critic of hezbollah there has been no claim of responsibility but his family has reached its verdict have the minority 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 the summation. 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 bar 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 as well like killer. because of who look man was the most this in the world below and then look man hailed from the same sect as hezbollah shia islam he lived in the group stronghold and was killed in the group's heartland. for more than a year 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. protestors were attacked by hezbollah supporters and journalists have been harassed . journalists. and whenever i express my socks on the sector.

i am like i was trained. with ortiz or promising an investigation but his family like many others say there's no need for one in a country where there's rarely been accountability. beirut a belgian court has convicted an iranian diplomat for attempted terrorism and sentenced him to 20 years in prison. aside he was found guilty of plotting to bomb an opposition rally outside paris and $2183.00 of his accomplices were also given jail terms and was stripped of their belgian citizenship the 1st time the european union states has charged an iranian official with terrorism offenses. pharmaceutical giant johnson and johnson has asked u.s. regulators for emergency with rise ocean for the world's 1st single dose coronavirus vaccine the process could take several weeks and if approved will be the 3rd vaccine to be authorized for use in the united states self to find the

biotech and. medical tran the u.k. is been launched to save giving people different coronavirus vaccines for their 1st and 2nd dose or offer the same protection the study will mix the astra zeneca and pfizer ban take jabs mix vaccine doses have words for diseases not like it both an h p v. if you have somebody who's turning up for a vaccine having received. after their 1st dose and their local surgery doesn't have any and the has vaccine begun obviously would be a great advantage if you can just go and have them on that day so it can be at that local level but even. regionally if there was a problem fx in 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 2000000 people in cuba's capital have now will be on the nightly curfew starting friday kiba has been struggling with

a rising number of infections there at the highest level since the pandemic began. portugal has begun vaccinating essential workers as anger grows over a slow start to the inoculation program the health ministry says deaths the new infections in are falling after a surge in recent weeks. now thousands of migrating birds in indian administered kashmir going hungry because of an intense cold spell about travel from as far as siberia in the winter a climate change and urban growth are disrupting their nesting areas elizabeth per annum has the story. it is a welcome sight and sound every winter hundreds of thousands of migratory birds filled the skies of india administered kashmir 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 becoming less welcoming.

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 peri greens. this winter temperatures have dropped to minus 10 degrees celsius wildlife officials were forced to break the ice on the wetlands before scattering paddy grain they were they boats out on to the lakes to cover as much ground as possible without us or we work really hard to get our birds as these days the water surface at hope you search for uses you have to make a feeding you spread the green and try our best so that these words don't stop. around half a 1000000 migratory birds have visited the whole wetlands since the vendor but their numbers have declined in recent decades years of climate change and urban development to being blamed itself has shrunk from nearly $900.00 square kilometers

of 969212 point 8 today but the 10 security situation in the area has made it difficult to address environmental issues in the media bally region not as much for its natural beauty as the decade long battle against indian elizabeth parata al-jazeera new delhi. this is al-jazeera and these are your top stories 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 spoke about the coup in myanmar and russia's treatment of opposition figures his promise to restore america's leadership in the world and repair alliances that were fractured during the trump is a murderer.