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hello i'm adrian forgive this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up votes are being counted out the libyan leader's constant ballots on a new interim government to run the whole country. into these heroes out a new covert 19 test but there are questions over its accuracy. and we meet refugees who are still fleeing ethiopia's trouble to a greater region into neighboring sudan. 4 years on the donald trump america withdrew from the international stage but now u.s. president joe biden has unveiled a new foreign policy strategy promising to restore u.s. leadership and repair alliances in his 1st major speech on his international priorities biden addressed the detention of russian opposition leader alexina valmy the rejoining of the paris climate accords and he's announced that he's ending

american support for the saudi led war in the m. and a state department correspondent who was on jordan reports. u.s. president joe biden delivered his 1st foreign policy speech at the state department and mate news on the long running war in yemen where saudi and rocky forces have allegedly targeted civilians with the 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 mark 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 at that considerably to that war now the u.s. is saying i will no longer continue to this war i will not she will it 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 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 rosalynn jordan al-jazeera washington was a lot to take in here but this hour we'll focus on biden's comments on yemen and russia we have alexander got 4 in moscow and the habit of yemen's capital sanaa well the conflict in yemen resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of people

including civilians and created the world's worst humanitarian crisis in his speech biden said that he wanted to move away from involvement in the conflict to focus instead on the suffering of the yemeni people and we've got some reaction from saudi arabia and the u.a.e. riyadh has responded by saying that it supports a political solution the kingdom also welcomed by its commitment to defend its territorial integrity it's come under attack from missiles fired across the border from yemen saudis form a coalition part of the u.a.e. says that it's eager to see an end to the war from which it says it's already withdrawn while the hooty say they won't be deceived by statements of the real peace will only come when the aggression ends so let's go live to saddam hamad is that how to tell us more about the hooty reaction to by his comments. yes they have received such remarks with different feelings and mixed rear reactions the

houthi center of fishel mohamed al hope he says that the these remarks couldn't be . couldn't make a difference in yemen less the saudi war and also the blockade is the saudi war is what he describes saudi war is ended and also the blockade is lifted he asserted that there are more important issues that the that should be implemented by the new administration. there also the the other senior official the the head of the negotiating team has described that the. leaders are also an important issue that's of the yemenis many many millions of yemenis have pinpointed to the poverty line so this situation is really difficult and many hope that the new administration will bring to yemen peace and security mammadov our tribe reporting live from santa many thanks indeed let's go live out of moscow alexandra got fires there for us

responding to president biden's comments russia has said that it won't tolerate any u.s. ultimatums what else has it been saying. well indeed the response of russia to the bidens comment was negative that the spokesperson of the russian president president wasn't what it meant it was call of said that this is aggressive on constructional of victoria he said that russia is not going to accept any ultimatum overtones and it's not going to be mentored now this goes in line what they have been saying in response to similar calls before and that is they're not going to accept meddling in what they call their domestic affairs and that they're not going to accept being lectured because this is how the seeds they're saying this case about the violin is about the russian law it's a criminal case it is not a political case and thus other countries should basically mind their own business

meanwhile the ears foreign minister is in moscow at the moment it's time when russia says relations between the 2 are at a low what's he been doing that. well in terms of what i came to day and met russian the minister of foreign affairs said again and nonviolent was one of the points and the mr burrell called the human the low point of strained relations so this meeting was about not of course only about this case but it was about and attempts to find new channels of communications to try to corporator in the spheres in areas where it is possible both widow and lover of basically agree that the relations are very bad it is point they started becoming bad in 2014 after the crimean action and they regularly went worst from there this summer when it was poisoned now mr burrell said that he asked

for release of the vialli and also investigation into his poisoning here in russia on the other hand the russian minister and this is again what they keep on repeating that's their position they think that the relations between e.u. and russia became so marred with problems because of e.u. because of as a lover of food it fictious reason coming unilaterally from from the e.u. still both ministers said that there are options for cooperation and the as but i'll put it wall of silence is not one of them and xander good for life for us in moscow many thanks indeed aleksandra. delegates in libya's transition talks are voting to select a new interim government it's the final day of the u.s. led libyan political dialogue forum in geneva of the country's ongoing peace process candidates are running for prime minister of roles in

a new presidency council members of the transitional government won't be allowed to stand in national elections later this year in a moment ago we heard from the top envoy stephanie williams speaking after the votes were counted let's have a listen. thank you home very much for your. serious dedicated to her to the nation in this process. no single lists has reached the required threshold for the 1st round of editing which was 68 percent. so we will now go to a 2nd round of road between the 3rd and the 4th but if those are the most we're prime ministerial candidate i'm going honey bee.

and. it's the 4th list so now what i would like is to give you $82.00 and i want to break. if you could be back here active pm we will conduct its 2nd round of. u.n. envoy stephanie williams speaking after the votes were counted in geneva let's go live to libya for some analysis and a serious amount of training is that what do you make of what you just heard. these talks have been going on for a week throughout the week we've seen candidates for the presidential council and for the prime minister positions. pretty much given their their their rundown on their vision and their roadmap to securing elections now this government this unity government is is meant to be a caretaker government until elections can take place in december 24th later this

year so as you just heard the 1st round of votes took place and those and the votes are on the list no single list was able to take a 60 percent majority so now we're waiting for after a 2 hour break we will see another round of votes take place and this will be among the 2. the 2 lists that received the highest votes in in 2 hours of all take place and we'll see whoever receives over 50 percent so 50 percent plus one means that they will they will be the new executive authority in libya of course the list consists of a presidential council that's a head and 2 deputies as well as a prime minister in the the list that received the most votes as. he's the eastern based. speaker for the parliament in the east the prime minister

is. he will be running against. the 2nd. highest list which was. need to beta and so in a few hours we will likely see we will see a new government be announced in geneva are at banneker many thanks i was there as medic trainer there reporting live from tripoli. the weather next here on al-jazeera then sweeping new rules bring beijing's controversial national security law into hong kong schools and i'm nicholas hawk on the edge of senegal seat is selling delta find out next why there's mangrove rich and wildlife is at risk from climate change. it's time for the perfect. sponsored point qatar airways

however we've got warm weather in the forecast for japan over the next couple of days but still a little bit of snow to get out of the way 1st we will see winds coming in from over westy direction so a milder direction but it will drive a few snow showers into that western side of honshu maybe also into whole kata telecare getting up to around 15 celsius on saturday and warmest still as we go on into sunday winds of just switched around a little bit picking up a bit of a northerly feed them just drop a few showers into the northwest of the country sheltered by the mountains tokyo not too bad with that pleasant sunshine 18 celsius losey try to across the korean peninsula they want to choose showers for the eastern side of the peninsula both in china generally dry still a few showers there to central parts of china the sunshine down towards the south there bit of sunshine into india over the next day or so we got some showers returning to sri lanka the northeast the winds just stayed in those showers down across the bow have been gold into the eastern side of sri lanka tending to peter

out as we go on through sunday further north of this generates dry shabby rain making its way across the poland clearing through got some shabby rain pushing in across northern parts of the middle east over the next couple of days it will be heavy at times with the threat of flooding with some snow. support qatar airways frank assessments you've got colleagues on the ground in the canaries what is the situation there's only one doctor and one nurse for $2200.00 people informed opinions how big does foreign policy figure in the early stages of a bomb in the situation he comes into office with a huge amount of foreign policy experience in-depth analysis of the day global headlines how will a place like it live get a back seat when there's no money at all the rest of rich countries are fighting for an inside story on al-jazeera.

hello again this is al jazeera let's remind you the main news this hour u.s. president joe biden says that he's ending american support for the saudi led war in yemen including a ban on the sale of specific weapons saudi arabia has responded by saying that it supports a political solution. the european union's foreign policy chief has appealed for alexina his release to be seen with his russian counterpart in moscow choice of ball met with sergei lavrov the 1st high level e.u. visits to russia since 2017 delegates in libya's transitional talks of voting select a new interim government it's the final day of the u.s. led libyan political dialogue forum in geneva part of the country's ongoing peace

process. hong kong is imposing sweeping new rules for schools china as children as young as 6 will be taught about the controversial national security law imposed by mainland china students will also learn about tough penalties for antigovernment offenses they'll be taught how to sing china's national anthem and they also learn about the police of the people's liberation army of a serious to the degree of the pollen reports from hong kong. the hong kong university campus this was one of the main campuses or particularly institutions which had pushed the ideals of democracy many of the students here were approached him ocracy activist at one point the umbrella movement of 24000 started here and the and suing pro-democracy and protest movements also was very much supported by students from here there not questions about what happens now from the age of 6 now

teachers will be forced to warn students about sedition secession collusion with foreign powers students and teachers will be encouraged to report anything that they deem as encouraging national security books will be removed reading material material a notice board seen as an danger in national security and once again that's a very very way they get topic and very which has a very wide remit so it's not exactly clear exactly what could danger that national security but also if you are sinatra and the teachers' union here the spokesperson had said they had expected some kind of reform in hong kong but not this drastic reform of the education system this basically allows the government to micromanage what happens in the classroom policing what happens during this questions in the classroom during children studies and big brings it in line with the communist control classrooms of mainland china. the protests across panama

a neighboring countries as demonstrators push back against monday's military coup that's also one of the posed me to aung san suu kyi she's close aides was arrested when 10 is a senior and l.d. party figure out a former political prisoner who spent decades campaigning against military rule teaches university students youth groups and medical workers are all part of a growing movement of protests against the military rule about 60 added to neighboring countries is it may have laws embassy in thailand overnight surrounded by demonstrators chanting and banging pots and calling for the coup to end but all sense or cheese at a party remains defiant though it won a landslide election in november elected representatives were supposed to start work on monday instead though many remain under house arrest under schapelle 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. since representatives from the end of the party are all elected civilian representatives we can call 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 erased no matter what. around 70 gathered on thursday and signed their oaths of office hundreds of lawmakers were detained for a period after monday's military coup. a team on t.v. no longer 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. protests that history in mind people are sticking

to red ribbons and 3 finger salutes originally from the hunger games film franchise that was popularized by pro-democracy protests in neighboring thailand all calling to end the dictatorship thanks then at 8 pm the sound heard round yang gone for a 3rd night in a row and local culture it said that banging pots and pans can drive evil from a home. there are a lot of people who we are going to be the most people across the country out 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. is rolling out a new breath test for covert 19 passengers a railway stations bus terminals being screened with the result 6 years within 20

minutes of someone else health experts to test accuracy jessica washington reports from jakarta. this is the early morning rush at san wanted to cut his busiest stations these passengers are among the 1st to try indonesia's new coping 19 breathalyzer think it may be. compared to the antigen rapid test in the p.c.r. test this test is a lot cheaper and more simple. the scientists behind the genoese device say it can smell good 19 on the brain in just 2 minutes without getting a negative result these passengers can't board the train the devices will be used at public sites around the country but scientists warn it shouldn't replace testing was easy in this geno's a screening tool if someone has a positive result should be confirmed with a p.c. if they test negative there's no need to. the test costs around $1.00 u.s. dollar much cheaper than a p.c.r.

test which can cost up to $100.00 at some hospitals but some epidemiologists say this is yet another misguided step by indonesian authorities some health experts are critical of this new method of testing they say in tunisia as health care is in crisis and the country is stuck in a relentless 1st wave of covert 19 cases they recommend the government focuses on increasing the k.c. are testing rather than rolling out cheaper and less accurate options we have to. create the capacity for p.c.'s are they still or if not just just to prove the car but you can for it be this and this. indonesia conducts around $40000.00 p.c.l. tests each day and has a test positivity rate of almost 30 percent last week the country supposed a 1000000 confirmed cases but experts fear the real number is much higher more than

a year into the pandemic some health workers feel the government has let them down on 2 fronts by failing to invest in more testing and by not having strict code 900 restrictions in place for what i thought i don't really know why the testing is still lacking in indonesia it's so important and we're still seeing people travelling and gathering at the stations if it continues this way covert 1000 will stay here even next year. 10 of doctor needs patients have died and she fears the situation will worsen as overwhelmed hospitals are forced to reject patients the health ministry did not respond to our request for an interview jessica washington al-jazeera jakarta restaurant owners in mexico city have protested against increased restrictions as cases. cafes and restaurants been told to close out toward dining areas eating indoors was already

banned they say the put them out of business and the best off can survive without the usual tips the city is offering tax cuts to owners of one of subsidies to employees. 3 months off the start of the ethiopian government offensive in the northern tier gray region refugees a still arriving in neighboring sudan aid organizations say that many are left stranded are they able to return to their homes sudar hosts more than 60000 refugees in the states of cassella and got a reef from where there was head of morgan reports. it's the 3rd day of waiting for linda mcmahon and to be rich is that at this refugee camp in sudan it's the she wants to be able to save her own shelter the camp known as the maid's bunk. it's her 2nd new 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 refugees 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 him in a terran access to many parts of to grey have also been restricted to made by camp is the 2nd open to host the refugees who've been relocated from other camps that were closer to the sudan if you'll be a border. refugees continue to arrive there with lesser numbers the start of the culvert reception centers were serviced caps and assault and battery for not meant to be camps because for the safety of the refugees a camp has 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 the

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 others 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 into gray 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. and presently a few which are required around $147000000.00 us dollars. be able to assist. 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 for fair then planning for that. are expected here in the coming days and weeks while many say they prefer to mate 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. with more than 35 percent of the world's mangroves already destroyed a study by the journal of american science found that if a missions continue unabated the forests could disappear in 30 years al-jazeera as nicholas hawk reports now from senegal where one such ecosystem is on the threat. with the rising ocean comes a tide of human waste suffocating senate gulf coast line tangled plastic bottles the remains of an old t.v. set a shoe and diapers mangled in fishing nets every day items brought by the atlantic choking the sea selamat grew. out of the mangrove and the burning in wood

there's just so much to do joining this cleanup effort is the minister of petroleum and energy in what some may see as a public relations stunt senegal has just started the construction of a commercial port and steps are underway to start offshore extraction of oil and gas already a quarter of the mangrove has been destroyed from the existing pollution part of it was turned into the capital's dumpsites. periodical each month young people come to take the waste and the plastic to the factories nearby that today in senegal process it to produce power. seeped in brackish water the trees store salt in their leaves trapped carbon emissions like no other plant filtering out pollutants bearing them instead emits this rain forest by the ocean acts as a natural embankment deep in this maze live the endangered atlantic humpback dolphin and the western reef heron the stagnant murky water is filled with malaria

transmitting mosquitoes and snakes to make it dangerous for human habitation. up until now plants and rare species of animals thrived in this environment because it is so inhospitable to humans but climate change is changing and. this is what is to come more of an environmentalist if we don't do enough to stop the pollution and clean up our oceans. nicholas hawke al-jazeera the scene is telling delta senegal. hello this is al jazeera adrian from going with you here in doha the headlines this hour u.s. president joe biden says that he's ending american support for the saudi led for in yemen including a ban on the sale of specific weapons saudi arabia has responded by saying it supports.