truth about wakes up the hawk to the united states and as president joe biden embarks on a just past month in the white house to bring you the latest developments escape attempts to repair global relationships february on al-jazeera. optimism in libya after an interim government is chosen selected by delegates from both sides of the conflict. i know i'm maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program president joe biden unveils his plan to help the u.s. economy rebound from the pandemic. russia expels diplomats from 3 european

countries as tensions grow over the imprisonment of kremlin critic alexina valmy. the. voices of opposition grow louder in me and ma where the military takeover is inspired a campaign of disobedience. and a welcome to the program out top story this hour a reunited libya has moved a step closer off to delegates from the country's warring factions agreed on the leaders of an interim government it's hoped it could bring an end to the chaos and conflict that's been the whole mark of the decade since the toppling of mama gadhafi delegates to un brokered talks chose a diplomat from the east muhammad men fee to head the presidency council and a businessman from the west of the hymie debate as prime minister those 2 sides have formed the principal divide in the battle to control libya since 2014 but once

the caretaker administration is in place the eastern government based in tobruk and the un recognized government in the capital tripoli will dissolve and in almost a decade of national division the new 3 member president presidential council will be tossed with preparing the country for general elections next december but the issue of foreign fighters is still that the u.n. special representative in libya estimates up to $20000.00 turks russians syrians sudanese and chaldean fight has are still present in libya. so let's go live now to diplomatic editor james base at the united nations and james this is a country where weapons are abundant and rival counts controlled territory how difficult is the route road ahead well this is obviously an important development we now have a new interim government for libya we have an ambitious timeline to elections this year to take place on the 24th of december but there are many parts one we've been

here before 'd there was a un backed government announced 5 years ago that came to absolutely nothing no unity government as you say we have the foreign fighters and foreign involvement in libya certainly a deadline has passed for all foreign forces to leave libya and they have not left the country so many many challenges ahead the work that's been done here much of it is down to the u.n. acting special representative stephanie williams she held a news conference a short time ago and i asked her what was her biggest worry about what's going to happen in the next 10 months i have to say that i'm not i'm not terribly worried i'm not overly overly worried i think there are a lot of challenges i think that. the new executive will be demeaning those challenges provided that they follow the advice and

recommendations put forward by the libyan political dialogue form to build a government you know competent patriotic libyans who are not there to divide the cake but to share the responsibility in you know the international community needs to come in quickly and decisively behind this new executive. and she says one of the things she'd like is the u.n. security council to come up with a resolution ratifying everything that's taken place here now it's worth telling you the u.n. security council on libya in the past has taken a long time to reach any agreement to toll so don't expect that any time soon but the u.n. security council does probably need to take action soon for the next step because we do have a ceasefire holding in libya but we still have those foreign fighters and what the

u.n. is proposing is a team of monitors to go on the ground initially a small footprint probably no more than 20 but then to build on that to try and secure the cease fire keep the cease fire holding for the rest of the year until those elections give one person one vote in libya thank you very much our diplomatic editor james bays at u.n. . u.s. president joe biden as a congress to pass a $1.00 trillion dollar pandemic relief plan says it's urgently needed as new data on jobs showed how the american economy is still struggling to recover $10000000.00 jobs lost at the start of the pandemic still hasn't been replaced the package would include $1400.00 stimulus checks for many americans it was signed off by the senate early on friday but let's now go back to the house of representatives for a final vote too many people nation have already suffered for too long through this

pandemic an economic crisis and telling them we don't have the money to leave you to suffer to get to full employment soon to vaccinate america after 8 trillion dollars in deficit spending over the past 4 years much of it having gone to the wealthiest people in the country new true nor necessary. we do have to get to full employment. we do have the tools reduce a lot of snow through this country. we just have to choose. his time jack. house correspondent kimberly how can now can really why the sense of urgency about this plan well it has a lot to do with those job numbers that came out of the economic recovery right now in the united states a sluggish it best when you go from a 6.7 percent unemployment rate to

a 6.3 percent unemployment rate in one month that's not exactly a recovery that's kind of a vacillation with a very narrow margin so what they want to see at least the white house wants to see is a big injection of cash as this nearly 2 trillion dollars package that they've been working on with congress in order to get american spending but also it's to ensure the some of the services americans count on remain in place for example there's going to be money for states and local governments so they can pay for 1st responders like firefighters and nurses and teachers and it also is going to allow for a big boost in making sure that the whole vaccination program that will allow businesses to get up and running that will be funded as well what this is also going to do is protect people to make sure that they are going to get kicked out of their homes extending that moratorium on an renter a vixens and as well this is going to make sure that americans get money that they can spend on the things that they need so the hope is that this is

a big cash injection it will get people moving again in terms of spending their money and it will allow once the virus is under control for business to open open up again so people actually can spend the cash the government's given them at least that's the hope that's the hope and the economists have said that there is room for there to be additional support but the risk is that it could overshoot and that could also be negative consequences. yeah and in some democratic leaning economists that are a little nervous about this saying look it too much too fast could mean inflation the likes we've not seen since a generation it could also mean a weakened american dollar which is something that would really hurt the united states on the global stage so there are some big risks here now joe biden talked about that he's got all kinds of experience he's not just the president he was the vice president for 8 years over seeing with barack obama the economic recovery in

2008 and before that he spent decades on capitol hill where he presided over government budgets annually so he feels confident that he knows what he's doing and he's so he's not only leaning on that experience he's leaning in and saying look at americans trust me but you also have to remember that when he spoke he really spoke for a position of compassion as somebody who has felt pain obviously he's very wealthy obviously he's very privileged in the highest office in the land but at the same time he has had personal tragedy he knows what it's like to grieve so he connects with americans when he says trust me i've got this and the hope is in the economists hope that he's right but certainly it is a big gamble thank you very much from washington can really help thank you can barely. in watching out is there a lie from london to the head on the program a 10 day stay in a quarantine hotel will soon be mandatory for visitors to the u.k.

but the government's accused of not acting quickly enough. i'm nicholas hawk on the edge of senate loom delta find out next why this man drove rich and why life is at risk from climate change. we got the flooding concerns across france of the moment and i'm afraid there is more rain in the forecast this is the same data to the southwest of the country and those flooding waters actually extend into western parts of germany as well to say that area cloud now making its way further and yes there is more wet weather in the wings that's going to notch its way in across by an important hill just pushing up through the bay of biscay over the next couple of days for the north another little area of low pressure and we are dragging in winds from the direction always a cold direction particularly at this time of the year that cold air was coming

right house of russia monist 10 the top temperature in moscow still around 10 celsius on friday make the most of that because it will get significantly cooler as we go on through the next couple of days 8 degrees here on saturday they were down to just one celsius on sunday and monday in london and cold enough into that eastern side if you have russia minus 19 there in moscow by choose day so we are dragging that cold air in this and snow there for scotland northern parts of england which will sink its way further south was here's that next batch of rain making its way across france pushing into germany tends to snow as we go on into sunday some heavy snow there just around the out and turning wet across central parts of the med. will come today from every one of us. even those working quietly behind the scenes. so you can relax enjoy the break in your journey.

and when you leave with a smile we know our day's work is done cantorial it's welcome to our home. to know the. the in. our come back our main story this hour the united libya might be a step closer with an agreement for an interim government a prime minister from the west and the head of the presidency council from the east have been chosen in talks brokered by the united nations. and the us president has

a congress to do more to help the country's economy saying that americans are hurting at this time it came as new figures showed there were fewer new jobs in january than had been hoped as a surge in corona virus infections during those colder months hit the recovery. now the international criminal court says it has territorial jurisdiction over palestine that strengthens the prosecutor's early a submission to the court to investigate alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity by israel and occupy palestinian territories this includes the gaza strip the occupied west bank and east jerusalem high force it joins us live now from west jerusalem how important a moment is this harry. well it's a very significant moment in this what has been up till now a potential full investigation by the i.c.c. of the situation in the occupied palestinian territories it was more than a year ago that. the chief prosecutor of the i.c.c.

judge that in her view there had in all likelihood been war crimes committed both by the israelis and by hamas during the last few years and that it warranted a full investigation what she wanted was the guarantee from the pretrial chamber that there wouldn't be any retrospective attempts to say that this investigation was unwarranted because palestine is not a full state recognized everywhere in all parts around the world and indeed israel is not a signatory to the rome statute which set up the international criminal court and that the key question was whether the palestinian territory could be viewed as a state and as a signatory to the statute for the purposes of this investigation there was a judgment by her last year the prosecutor that it was and that she should be allowed to investigate we would been waiting really for the full judgment of the

panel of judges and now it has come in and it is ruled that yes this investigation can go ahead now this is something that israel has very much opposed through various diplomatic channels most notably with the united states especially the trumpet ministration which last year instituted sanctions against the prosecutor and other members of the i.c.c. that is something that the biden ministration is now it says reexamining but the biden restriction is also against this proceeding and indeed any investigation into american activities in afghanistan the israelis according to one report had drawn up a list of some very senior figures that could be targeted by such investigation one has to. that that would include the prime minister benjamin netanyahu as well as the former army chief now alternate prime minister benny gantz as far as the palestinians are concerned we've had a couple statements one from a senior advisor to mahmoud abbas the president and also from the foreign ministry welcoming this judgment saying that this is

a historic day for criminal accountability and saying that the rights to justice by the palestinian people can now be pursued thank you very much for lestrange them high for set. diplomatic furious russia's treatment of alexina valmy is intensifying its after russia expelled 3 foreign diplomats for joining protests against his arrest meanwhile the opposition leader in self as appeared in court again the 2nd time in a week is accused of defaming a world war 2 veteran andersen's has more. russia's foreign ministry says the diplomats had attended what he called illegal demonstrations last month in support of alexei navalny thousands of protesters were arrested in a series of rallies as the ministry isn't saying how many of the diplomats from germany sweden and poland they're expelling. but the action comes only hours after an avanti was back in court again and the european union's top diplomat was also in

moscow calling for the opposition leader's release only 3 days after being jailed on a separate charge of ali is accused of defamation he called kremlin supporters appearing in a video corrupt stooges the prosecution say he insulted a 95 year old man one of russia's revered world war 2 veterans told the court singling out a war veteran was a p.r. stunt to discredit him and he was disgusted by it in the kremlin burrill the head of the foreign policy was meeting survey lavrov russia's foreign minister are on barrels agenda was the plight of not only who had been poisoned with a nerve agent novacek and received the lifesaving treatment in germany last september they have conveyed to minister lavrov our deep concern and retreated our appeal to

release on to launch of an impartial investigation of the peace. lab roth talked of the low points in relations with the e.u. so just pushed on you because it's true that they're not at their best partly due to the illegitimate restrictions which are introduced by a use under trumped up pretext of a reference there to e.u. trade and financial sanctions imposed after russia's annexation of crimea in the ukraine conflict in 2040. breakthrough is considering further sanctions against russia over the value of. andrew symonds. well in the leaders and not just those his diplomats were expelled or quick to hit back at russia there is dominic cain has more on that story from berlin. the view in berlin the view in paris as has been made very clear by angela merkel and

emmanuel mccaw on friday afternoon is will they have reacted if not angrily but strongly to the expulsion of 3 diplomats e.u. diplomats one of them german from moscow on the basis of what the russian government has said was inappropriate behavior for diplomats of the german government angela merkel saying that she believed it was totally unjustified for the russian government to take the action it did and emmanuel mcconnell speaking in a digital conference with angle americal the 2 had been meeting in a digital format as part of a franco german security council mr merkel made very clear in his opinion he had condemned firmly everything that had happened in the process that mr novelli found himself in from the moment he was poisoned back in august to now where he finds himself in a prison serving a freshly imposed prison sentence and so you have to view what's the use reaction

to what has happened on friday through that prism remember that the 2 leaders merkel and mccann have been perhaps the most strongly spoken in condemning what has happened to mr nardelli and the way that the situation has evolved over the course of the past few months and so on that basis the explains the sort of language we're hearing now coming both from paris and from berlin. twitter and instagram appear to have been blocked in me in my day off to facebook was also taken down it's the latest move to conserve power by the military leadership 5 days after the coup in the past few hours the un's envoy to the country used to call it the deputy military chief to condemn their actions and to call for the release of detainees including the civilian leader unsung suchi but even without leaders civil disobedience movements espousing up across the country scott hi there reports. more and more people across myanmar coming out and speaking out against monday's

military coup civil disobedience movements have grown in size and numbers more emerging every day since health care workers were the 1st to come out earlier in the week of going on strike. there waving the red flag of unsung suchi is party the n l d and they have adopted the 3 finger salute made popular by the thai anti-government protesters. the movement has now spread to the major cities across myanmar including a gathering of teachers on the young university of education campus it was another for a lot of money out we don't want this military coup which unlawfully seize power from our elected government we don't want anyone who steals power and then forms their own government we're no longer going to work with them we want the military coup to fail america from october of 88 generation is a pro-democracy group born out of a violent army crackdown on protests in 1988 it issued a statement encouraging and congratulating the civil action this week but also said

that it's time to organize some of the chip inlays a former 88 generation member and political prisoner he now lives in thailand distil everyone have a full and everyone have this they are a call many a call we can call net and content easily also we can't easily share our opening our thinking and information so this time very. different with a lot of previous the most recent. a point not lost on me and mars military which has blocked facebook and some messaging applications at least until sunday. more than coming out in numbers to be seen and heard organizers are calling for boycotts a business is tied to me and mars military japanese beverage maker kiran has already scrapped a 1700000000 dollar joint venture with an army own it's got harder al-jazeera. travelers arriving to u.k. from a list of coronavirus hotspot countries will have to quarantine for 10 days but the

british government's been criticised only brain a measure announced last month on february 15th the so-called red list of countries includes much of latin america southern africa and the u.a.e. thousands of hotel rooms nearest see an ad ports of being books and arrivals will half of that have to foot the bill it's designed to stop the spread of the mutant virus strains which could endanger the country's so far successful vaccination program again barbara is at london's heathrow airport and says the government's handling has left some hotel he is disappointed. we know precious little about the details of this corn team hotel scheme apart from the obvious fact that it's going to be a big challenge to get it in place by the deadline of february the 15th so 10 days for the government to convince hotel groups to get on board and to make rooms available the government's trying to block books thousands of rooms across the countries at airports like here at heathrow and around the u.k.

as well as sea ports on friday the head of one london hotel group said that it wouldn't be enough time to implement the covered 19 safety procedures necessary on thursday just hours before the announcement the head of the u.k.'s biggest airport hotel group said that they had been left in the dark about how the scheme would operate that was a week after prime minister boris johnson said that the scheme would be coming in and many people are asking why the delay the opposition labor party have accused the government of risking lives with its failure to act more quickly pointing out that the announcement came 50 days after the south african variant of the virus was 1st known about the government of course saying that these measures are necessary because of new variants many of the countries on the list of 33 the so-called red

list are in south america and southern africa let's not forget that there was a variant also from brazil that's worrying scientists here possibly more easily transmitted and more resistant to vaccines which the government has been so doing so well on so there's a big challenge we don't know exactly how many rooms will be available arrivals by u.k. residents from those countries well they'll have to stay in a hotel for 10 days at their own cost around $110.00 per night. that will be mandatory but many people are saying we shouldn't be all right was the government saying that that would be unfeasible and it would unfairly hit people from low risk countries. the british medical journal has published a scathing editorial on the global cover 19 response likening it to mudder the article says the actions of some politicians amount of premeditated and reckless indifference to human life it criticizes them for willfully neglecting scientific

advice when it contradicts their own ideology the author says leaders must be held to account for the 2000000 worldwide coronavirus deaths and suggest that the remit of institutions like the international criminal court should be broadened to cover state failings in pandemics welcome on a bus is the b.m.j. executive editor he says some leaders have failed to protect the public and they must face serious sanctions. we know that people in the u.k. and elsewhere are considering legal action against governments against leaders so that would be in terms of negligence criminal negligence but also misconduct in public office that's a very hard thing to actually take to court and then prove but people are people are trying to do that realistically there are 3 ways number one is to vote the leader out and we saw that rustles happen to donald trump that could happen to

other leaders who have implemented policies that have led to a large number of deaths the 2nd is to push for public inquiries and if you look around the world there's been very few public inquiry simply because those least leaders have resisted inquiries because they don't want to be held accountable so it is duty bound for scientists the media for the public to push for those with inquiries to reduce deaths in future and the 3rd route is long and this again difficult but it goes back to international accountability because if one country doesn't have the right policies that can affect every people everywhere else in the world so there's a there's an onus on the international community to create mechanisms such as via the international criminal court to consider charges brought it in terms of crimes against humanity and extending its current remit to consider those against sovereign governments mangrove forests are crucial to protecting our planet but

scientists warn they might be lost forever in just 3 decades and with them some of the world's rarest species nicholas had visits animals sent a saleem delta well as a race to save one such ecosystem. with the rising ocean comes a tide of human waste suffocating senegal's coastline tangled plastic bottles the remains of an old t.v. set a shoe and diapers mangled in fishing nets everyday items brought by the atlantic choking the sea selling mangrove susser who are cleaning up who will to get out of the mangrove in the burning in when there is 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 dump site and the black. periodical each month and

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 plants filtering out pollutants burying them in settlements 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 all of that rising temperatures and the rising ocean is altering this precious ecosystem slowly

killing the animals and the mangrove itself. this is what is to come environmentalist if we don't do enough to stop the pollution and clean up our oceans. because hawk al-jazeera the delta senegal more information on our web site al jazeera dot com get lots of comments and analysis there as well. quick recap of the main stories now united libya has moved possibly a step closer with an agreement for an interim government a prime minister from the west of the country and the head of a presidency council from the east have been chosen in talks brokered by the united nations but it's not clear if that up they'll be able to overcome military divisions on the ground country's been split.