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economy rebound from the coronavirus pandemic. and the noises of opposition grow louder in me in my way and then it take over has inspired a campaign of disobedience. and i'm leo harding and doha with all of your sports news england's cricket captain hits another century job route passing 100 for the 3rd match in a row to put anyone in a strong position in the 1st test against india. welcome to news our top story a reunited libya might be a step closer after 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.

some conflict that's been the whole mock of the decade since the toppling of wanna gadhafi delegates to un brokered talks shows a diplomat from the east mohammad men feed at the presidency council and a businessman from the west a bill hamid debate as prime minister once the cats ministration is in place the east and government based in tobruk and the un recognized government in the capital tripoli will dissolve ending almost a decade of national division the new 3 member presidential council will be tasked 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 chaldeans are all still present inside libya malik trainer reports now from tripoli in what the u.n. is calling a historical vote participants of the libyan political dialogue for voted in the new transitional government their objective lead libya to parliamentary and

presidential elections in december this is a moment for historic compromise for reaching we've already seen that people are reaching across the divide. you know the guarantee is that what you are doing now who serve your people libya has been golden conflicts for the last 10 years since an armed revolution toppled longtime leader moammar gadhafi in 2011 in april 2019 just days before a un facilitated national conference warlord really for have to begin to military campaign in tripoli with support from egypt russia and the u.a.e. in june 2020 they were forced to retreat towards eastern libya after the u.n. recognized government with turkish support re to western libya. here in tripoli most people are hopeful that this transitional government can make some changes.

the government will have a large task at hand it will not be easy we have they will be able to make some changes but because it's such a short term i doubt they'll be able to do. for funneling to how much money the only thing we want from this government is for it to bring us elections we want the decision for who holds power to return to the people although hope for some have doubts that the elections can take place so the last government was supposed to stay in power for one year but they've been in power for over 5 years we hope they stick to their promise and help the average citizen and provide basic services after years of violence and political divisions most libyans want something to believe and to hope for and for now many hope that this new transitional government can leave a reconciliation process and bring about elections now a trainer al jazeera tripoli. our diplomatic editor james bass asked the u.n.

secretary general if libyans should expect real change this time secretary general if i could ask you to put today's developments in the context of lit libya's recent history it's almost exactly 10 years since the start of the uprising in libya there have been so many false storms for the people of libya do you believe now this is the breakthrough i do believe it is a breakthrough and it is following the successful result of the negotiations of the 5 plus 5 the military the joint military committee that led to a cease fire so now we have a cease fire we have a political agreement about elections we have a new jersey tional started being put in place or going to be put in place and. it is essential that and i are complete. and so that they gave it is essential that all foreign fighters and most alert is moved 1st to tripoli and benghazi and

then leave the country according to the new schedule that was the find and it is essential that everybody corporates with the new or saudis to make peace. in libya well the international criminal court says it has territorial jurisdiction over palestine paving the way for an investigation into alleged war crimes by israel well this includes the gaza strip the occupied west bank and east jerusalem in 2019 the i.c.c. chief prosecutor fattah bensouda said she was satisfied war crimes have have been or are being committed in the west bank including east jerusalem and the gaza strip she asked the court to determine if she had jurisdiction for an investigation which prompted the ruling the palestinians who joined the i.c.c. in 2015 of been asking the court to look into israeli military actions in the gaza strip in 2014 they also want israel's construction of settlements in the occupied

west bank and an excuse to jerusalem and ics of east jerusalem to be investigated. are joined by dr susan powell from the palestinian human rights organization she joins us from cork in ireland so as you were saying this clears the way for the i.c.c. chief prosecutor to move forward with an investigation into alleged war crimes how how quickly might we see an inquiry be opened. but i think the important thing to know from today the pretrial chamber. creech are find that they once the preliminary examination come in close and back at the end of 2019 past the constitution has already moved into the investigation phase so we can see even to me to say that the prosecution cannot move but she is already in investigation so i think we will start to see the prosecutor already has fines which up and identified

by the officer the prosecution or i'm the 5 he has taken and ringback i think the one thing we are concerned surprised from the decision today in fact pre-charge unprecise that there might be a protracted process and. cases that we've seen coming before the court has gone on for years and years and years it. was we thought it went for trackage that kind just picking a fight but also where we're not very much in the investigation stage. presence and they would be very very concerned with flash because as far as we're concerned we have since 2009 with the 1st premium rates on the nation really push the courts to open investigation without risk kills 3 years neisha we don't have to wait on shows we have that much weight on chess and 2015 and 22nd preliminary some nations or

some and we think wasting all of this time i was preparing the mission so at the at the end just $29.00 teams were over here waiting for at the creature engine but to make the decision and we would say we can no longer waste any press there we must see the chess investigation but i think this is we nice today very important and hopefully nice the prosecution can proceed now with these investigations and science are already there i was saying that we have as a coalition a palestinian right and i think should happen. on the side i've seen your sense of humor nice and out here and we have connectivity 2015 mission house and a pile of documents signed to the office of prosecution or along with the very substantial and communications can you wish why not just go ask you very quickly could you you said there's already been a delay and now the court making the statement about that well there's going to be

now protracted process so there's still some uncertainty over this one of the implications then for a probe i think bernie i think basically is just trying to get there and be putting together the investigation because they with the pretrial chambers before i think we were in a very young jewish and even up until this point because it moves from the preeminent somebody should to the pretrial chamber not arse from one to 3 what you should on the side not say that with each of the court so you cannot that time we were expecting got processed over within $120.00 days and that was on the recommendation of easter and when that didn't happen in quick time to new continued up until today when they finally made the decision over a year later with we try to change these are the types of surveys or the fact that the sentence retracted process means we could be seeing a number here except in 10 years 20 years that we've seen in other cases and before we actually find the country ssion investigation into one of these cases breaking

sent me thinks he's a star so in fact i know and you know i just ask you a report in 2015 by an investigator has said that both israel and palestinian armed groups might have committed crimes during. in recent years when who is likely to face because obviously states can't be charged but tell us more about who is going to face or who is expected to face i.c.c. scrutiny. what we're really looking at here are the high end that's actually so we're talking 5 ministry generals and also officials and her if she so initially so think or to come up with policy from what we're reading nothing out here a very great time into using even the crime part right at the crime against humanity which was which week to the international criminal court and be kind. of a mass grave and its limitations that the secretary o'neill and surprise these

means assigned and they think that the policies are not been implemented even if our caucus if i'm saying say that it's read some of the masterminding the friends of some on on even prior to 2015 and even since 1048 with the mostest statements of understanding people over 7000000 refugees and you know the states and then i think i should return ticket today but what we're looking at are acts which means mission 2050. plus will be prosecuted a very high year for actors and so we're looking at and policy makers politicians very high ranking politicians very high ranking ministry generals and those are the time when the socialist come before an international criminal court well thank you very much sharing your full to this appreciate it susan joining us from coconut and i thank you. still ahead for you on this news hour from london rusher expels diplomats from 3 european countries as tensions grow over the imprisonment of

kremlin critic alexina valli. a 10 day stay in a quarantine hotel will soon be mandatory for visitors to the u.k. the government's accused of not acting quickly enough. australian open champion not joke which suffers defeat in his warm up events and is a city cop defense comes to an end that's coming up early on in sports. u.s. president joe biden as a congress to pass a $1.00 trillion dollar pandemic relief plan he says it's only needed as new dates wrong jobs showed how the american economy is still struggling to recover 10000000 jobs were lost at the start of the pandemic and they've still not been replaced 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 in the 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. true nor necessary we do have the resources to get to full employment. we do have the tools to reduce a lot of suffering in this country. we just have to choose to use so it's time to act. well alan fischer is live for us now from the white house and allan explain the sense of urgency around biden's plan. well they really want to get it done quickly not least because of the job figures that came out in the last few hours that the unemployment rate dropped from 6.7 to 6.3 good news you think not really

that's because a lot of people have just left the job market they don't see the prospect of the economy getting up anytime soon so they don't see the point in looking for what the u.s. economy created 49000 jobs in the last month and again you might think women that's quite good isn't it but no it isn't because normally they get 105000 jobs at least a month being created that's where they need to be that's the baseline so you can see they're well well under where they need to be performing so joe biden says look we need this 1.9 trillion we've got to go big we've got to spend a lot of money he's talking about $1400.00 checks for everyone across the united states that qualifies he's talking about more money for vaccination programs more money for schools more money for personal protection gear more money to local authorities to make sure that they can keep people like firemen and police officers and also people in local hospitals they can still be employed he sees 1900000 as

a don't payment essential in the future of the u.s. economy that he was involved in the bailout as it was called then 8 years ago of course when barack obama came into office actually 12 years ago and at that point there was a feeling that the obama white house didn't spend enough and trying to restart the economy and so joe biden doesn't want to make that mistake again so that is why he is very keen to get this push through it would be the middle of march probably before it goes through but certainly it's pointing in the direction that it's going to split on party lines with the democrats pushing it through the republicans opposing it for various reasons but it's almost certainly going to go through because of course the democrats not only have the votes they have the white house right so as you say it's been met with opposition by republicans in congress pal and what in their what are the risks of the stimulus plan a vest signs. of course the question is will it work and we don't know that's the

honest answer we don't know and we have lot of summers who is barack obama's chief financial guy years ago he's put out an op ed piece in one of the newspapers today saying look if you put too much money into the economy at the moment it won't work there's the possibility that you're weaken the dollar that you'll drive up inflation that essentially you're pouring money into a corner me that's on fire no that question was directed to some of the economic team at a briefing here at the white house just a couple of hours ago they say look we don't know where of what could happen janet yellen who used to be the head of the federal reserve the biggest bank in the u.s. the important central bank here in the u.s. is no the treasury secretary so she's well aware of those issues but they think that 1 point one trillion is what is needed and perhaps even more later in the year that republicans are worried about the whole fight that this is building up the deficit the democrats see that you weren't worried about that when you were passing

tax cuts for the wealthy this is for ordinary american families this is what we need to concentrate on so there is the possibility that it will work but joe biden does of wanted to feel for lack of ambition which is why he's pushing through this $1.00 trillion almost 2 trillion dollar relief package that he believes will help calm but the worst effects of the economy that have been impacted by corporate and will also help the country get back on its feet a lot quicker they're saying that if they don't take this action with the come employment rate that we're looking at it could be 10 years before the u.s. is back to full employment they don't want to do that that is why joe biden is pushing this so hard so much in these early days thanks very much from the white house and fresh air thank you allan. now the british medical journal has published a scathing editorial on the global covert 19 response likening it to mud the article says the actions of some politicians amount to a 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 suggests that the remit of institutions like the international criminal court could be broadened to cover state failings in the event of a pandemic come on see is the executive director and says some leaders of 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 is duty bound for scientists the media for the public to push for those with inquiries to reduce deaths in future and the 3rd root is long that is 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. or there's growing concern variants of the coronavirus could

cause deadly surges around the world even as countries begin their vaccination rollouts german officials are saying that the very 1st discovered here in the u.k. now accounts for most 6 percent of cases in the country variance 1st found in south africa in brazil have also been detected of course and one in 5 new coronavirus cases in denmark is said to be the british variant prompting experts to say knock down restrictions is still necessary and scientists in the united states are saying that while corona virus infections appear to be stabilising the number of cases the british variant those cases are actually accelerating in the 3rd week of january almost 600 cases recorded every week. let's now speak to doc to erik thing he is an epidemiologist at an adjunct senior fellow at the federation of american scientists he joins us on skype from washington can you tell us why scientists and now why

read about this concept of ray combination and how that's different from a simple mutation. right thanks for having me we commission is not just like this. where there are more like typos when you're writing gigs and it's really how many she means whole sections of the genome what between buyers and there actually is much lends itself to a much faster variance own game arisen and potentially much more worst of both worlds come scenarios in which there are many many bad mutations quiet once. all together that is not good we didn't know how much common it was but now we think it's becoming quite common source code we were just speaking about the prevalence of the u.k. variant of the corona virus and how it's accounting for

a greater number of cases in other countries including the united states it is this recall the nation perhaps already happening. well we're not sure but we do know that it is there is a lot of mutations rising there are tons of these suddenly new mutations whether it's the brazil one or south africa one which may both elude vaccines partially partially in the british one it doesn't the common b $117.00 does not seem to be affected that much but it's just this week we discovered that the the $117.00 is also quired the bad mutation for a for that scene in south africa and the one that's basically responsible for all that that scene will worries and be infection worries and so now this new version is being seen u.k.

among the already contagious b 170 and that gives huge worries that with millions of people infected this will continue to be a problem and the underbelly is that while the regular string is gone down there it's the $117.00 is taking over the world and will to likely take over denmark by the end of february and then likely take over the u.s. by the end of march or early april so we're going to have a brand new dominant strain that's running around it's 50 percent more contagious not spent but so far we're hearing that it shouldn't affect the efficacy of vaccines it can has that been established with certainty though so it will still work for vaccines but there's some evidence that there's $4117.00 there could be about a 10 percent drop racine astra zeneca just reported it's still avocations but it's

possibly a few points lower than optimal and for the other sound out of the one to be $51.00 we've seen so many vaccine examples in which it's 90 or even percent elsewhere but the percent in south africa because of that strain there so it's not complete invasion but it's definitely a somewhat of a attenuation. and what is why is recon been ation then the next level risk why is it a dangerous step up from the simple me taishan is what what does it allow the virus to do inside the human body right if you're co infected with 2 different viruses say one is deadly or one is more contagious and maybe another one has some inner body you are in fact seen you feeding properties i agree combination of allows them to swap sheens swat. are nearly so they're

a potentially worse the both worlds can arise quickly as opposed to just random mutations where you know monkeys typing on a keyboard will take a long time until your own lucky but with recombination you can get unlucky very quickly and with millions and millions of cases swirling around the chance of that happening is more more because mutations breed mutations in the virus this is a very smart very efficient virus that is determined to survive it's absolutely life finds a way of saying oh all right thank you very much thank you appreciate it dr eric 5 holding taking time out from a very busy schedule thank you. all travelers arriving to the u.k. from the list of crime virus hotspot countries will have to quarantine for 10 days

but the british government's been criticized for only bringing in a measure announced last month on feb 15th the so-called red list of countries includes much of latin america southern africa and the u.a.e. thousands of hotel rooms in a sea an airport and being books and arrivals will have to foot the bill it's designed to stop the spread of mutant virus strains which could endanger the country's so far successful vaccination program. and the numbers at london's heathrow airport says the government's handling is that somehow tally is also disappointed. we know precious little about the details of this current 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 country to 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 variance 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 where 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. and watching the news hour live from london much more still at. what is national security. china tightens its grip on hong kong this time through the city's children. and we build up to the super bowl as tom brady aims for yet

another title as coming out with in sports. 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 . flooding waters actually extend into western parts of germany as well in say that area of cloud now making its way further west and yes there is more wet weather in the wings that's going to not just weigh in across spain and portugal just pushing up through the bay of biscay over the next couple of days for the north another little area of low pressure we are dragging in winds form and direction always a cold direction particularly at this time of the year that cold air is coming right house of russia i'm on. 10 the top temperature in moscow still around 10 celsius on friday make the most of that because it will get significantly colder 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 of europe 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 there is 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 that just around the out and turning wet across central parts of the met. what should americans be thinking and doing right now it should be a bad idea they don't care about their work is all they care about is making money china is not going to be left out of the pot calling for them to go to defense budget to be high the bottom line on u.s.

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welcome back you're watching the news our live from london on main stories united libya might be a step closer with an agreement for an interim government a prime minister from the west in the head of the presidency council from the east have been chosen in talks brokered by the united nations. international criminal court says it has territorial jurisdiction over palestine it strengthens the prosecutor's earlier submission to the court to investigate alleged war crimes in territories occupied by israel since 967. and the us president is urged congress to do more to help the country's economy recover saying americans are hurting it came as new figures showed there were fewer new jobs in the month of january than it been hoped as a surgeon corona virus infections in the colder months slowed any economic rebound . now twitter and instagram appear to have been blocked in may and

a 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 a call with the deputy military chief to condemn their actions and to call for the release of detainees including civilian leader. but even without leaders civil disobedience movements sprouting up across the country scott heil has our report. 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 a going on strike. there waving the red flag of unsung suchi his 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 everyone said

another for example many are 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 and that are 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 disturb everyone have a full and everyone have us they also share a call many a call we can call net and content easily also we can easily share our opening our thinking and information so this time very. different with. the previous demonstration a point not lost on myanmar as 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 and business is tied to me and mars militaire japanese beverage maker kiran has already scrapped a 1700000000 dollar joint venture with an army own brewing scott hardware al-jazeera that sounds speak with wayne in a campaign's officer at the campaign u.k. she's also the daughter of a one of the generation student leaders who was taken by the me and nonmilitary on monday joins us on skype from london can i stop by asking you if you've had any news on on your father. no it's been 5 days since my father and i were activists were arrested early hour on monday morning and through then we haven't heard anything about their situation where they are being held or a health condition all the family members

a very worried about them tell me about your conversations with him before he was arrested. he knew you know the coup was going to happen and there were a lot of room in circulating about the crew but he was very outspoken about he was a you know even to reckon with crude it's ridiculous race we should be finding a democratic solution rather than the military using bullying tactics to describe democracy or what we have in the country. tell us about what happened in 1808 because this there was a pro-democracy uprising that was violently crushed by the military it was a while ago but the memory of of that chapter will be fresh in the minds of many people particularly people who are thinking about protesting now yes so

this time around well what i find very encouraging is a lot of the younger people are involved people in there you know in their twenty's even teenagers they they might have heard about 988 uprising but they they didn't see my that so you actually see the military coup taking over the country and moving the leaders that they elected is anger a lot of people on the street a lot of their people in the country and i think in the coming you know with the restrictions of the social media i think we will see more and more protest on the streets and i hope that it doesn't escalate. and but of course it's reassuring to know that the international community is what ching but we need them to do more than just monitoring the situation it's interesting you say you're expecting that will be more unrest on the streets because of course the whole point of blocking

online media sites shutting down facebook and instagram is to is to prevent protests and it's to prevent the opposition from organizing themselves but from what you're saying it's going to have the complete opposite effect so people have been using the social media as a platform to organize and courage and to raise awareness about what's going on in the country so by bending the social media the military is taking away the freedom of expression in the country so it will anger and it will frustrate a lot of people. but will they not also find it difficult to because this was a civil disobedience we've seen so far has been a very decentralized kind of leaderless movement if you like with medics and government hospitals and i think teachers involved in as you say many young people if social media is shut down or blocked is that prevent its ability to grow and

expand so when the 988 uprising happen and we didn't have social media and in 2007 revolution we didn't have social media and even with the you know if they banned the twitter and instagram today but even before that we will see a student younger generation of student me to organizing protest in mandalay and a young girl in a different part of the countries those. you don't need you don't need the social media social media to organize there are other tools and people are more creative this time when you are you you are well aware of what happened in 1000 a taking office or your father now has been arrested you must be worried about the military responding with extreme violence if this movement continues. that's why i feel reassured that the international community is watching and monitoring but we

need them to do more than issuing a letter or statement of condemnation because they are in the position to help the country and of course we want human rights and people inside the country are risking their lives for human rights and democracy but we can't have those human rights or democracy without the help from the international community and we need their support so we have been calling for a wide range of international action including sanctions against the military owned companies and military owned businesses but of course we also need to tool with like diplomatic pressure arms embargo which is very important that we also need those who we need to use every tool we have and international community help and support is vital and it's time for them to do action rather than issuing

a statement of condemnation thank you appreciate you speaking to us campaigned off her bombing campaign u.k. why then thank you. the diplomatic fury of russia's treatment of alexina volley is intensifying its after russia expel 3 foreign diplomats for joining protests against his arrest meanwhile the opposition leader himself is appeared in court again the 2nd time in a week he's accused of defaming a world war 2 veteran anders simmons has more i russia's foreign ministry says the diplomats had attended what he called illegal demonstrations last month in support of alexina valmy thousands of protesters were arrested in a series of rattlers 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 leaders really. only 3 days off to 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'd sell to 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 ali on barrels agenda was the plight of not only who had been poisoned with a nerve agent novacek and received life saving 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 investigation of

a case by shooting. lab roth talked of the low points in relations with the e.u. so just pushed on you because it is 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. there were no breakthrough is considering further sanctions against russia over the valley of. andrew simmons . leaders and not just those whose diplomats were expelled back at rush hour this hour there is dominic cain has more on that from the german capital ballen. 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. hong kong has issued sweeping new rules for schools children as young as 6 years old will be taught about national security and certain books could be removed from libraries government says it's meant to give children a clear identity to be a part and reports from hong kong. mess down what is national security it's one of hong kong's biggest moves to overhaul its education system with teaching material that includes animation to help younger children the new national security education curriculum brings hong kong classrooms in line with the communist

controlled schools of mainland china teachers will be forced to teach students as young as 6 about secession subversion and foreign interference we are talking about helping students to develop a sense of national identity being. a national citizen and. they have to develop our standards of taking up give us a possibility to protect our country. authorities here have come under pressure to make changes to education have to probe ageing politicians and china's state media playing teachers and the curriculum for the month long antigovernment protests of 2019 the majority of the frontline protesters were university and high school students the prolonged demonstrations were also the basis for the wide ranging national security law imposed by beijing in july until recently the target of the law had been opposition leaders protesters and activists but now it's set to

influence academics. teachers of subjects such as biology geography general studies and even music will need to incorporate national security and topics taught in class in the past the people can express themselves for freely due to money just straight of any consequence but now the situation changed i think it really are fucked. quality and also the nature of education critics say the move will impact any kind of open discourse in educational institutions from primary to universities it is not just what is being taught in the classrooms that will be monitored teachers and students are encouraged to report material deemed dangerous to national security and even posters on notice boards and library books will come under scrutiny hong kong's education system already places enormous pressure on students whose future is dictated by a number of milestone exams many fear the added constraints could take

a toll but the government has warned teachers there's no room for debate or compromise when it comes to national security there we go palin hong kong christopher plummer the actor best known for playing captain von trapp in the sound of music has died at the age of 91 canadian star achieve global fame after his iconic role opposite julie andrews passed away peacefully at his home in connecticut palmer was in more than 100 films and acted well into his lady is becoming the oldest actor to win an oscar in 2012. so loud for you on the program. and went downhill pretty fast for this job is stay out. of it we'll have much more on that at a. time

now for the sport with. thank you mary i'm let's start with cricket and the star performance from england's captain during day one of the 1st test against india and china playing and his 100th test joe root had a century for the 3rd game in a row following up on the 2 he scored against sri lanka last month he was still there at stumps on $128.00 including 14 boundaries and a 6 england looking strong on to $63.00 for 3 this was india's 1st home series since the pandemic started over the course of like ribs. always got

a little schools need to be. going to do. it with. over and pakistan and south africa are neck and neck on the 2nd day of their 2nd test match the host began the day on $148.00 for 3 south africa fast bowler north took 5 wickets and that meant that pakistan were restricted to $272.00 all out but the home team's bowlers got stuck into the tourists taking 2 wickets captain quenton de kock and batsman. at the at the crease at the close of play south africa one of 6 for 4. the draw for the australian open has finally happened after a coded scare delayed it by a day more than 500 players and officials were forced back into quarantine on

thursday because a hotel staff member tested positive after the draw went ahead novak djokovic found out that he will begin his title defense against jeremy sharkey on monday and serena williams pulled out of her warm up event with a shoulder injury that's after winning her match on friday she's aiming for a record equalling 24th grand slam title in melbourne but has a tricky draw in the same half as world number 2 simona halep and u.s. open champion naomi osaka the super bowl is just 2 days away where the tampa bay buccaneers will take on the kansas city chiefs tom brady seems pretty relaxed as he looks for yet another victory in the sport's biggest game david stokes has a story. tom brady has seen it all before at 43 years old the n.f.l.'s biggest star is getting ready for his 10th super bowl he won 6 of them with the new england patriots but this time he's back with a new team the tampa bay buccaneers is just try to show you know on sunday you know

get your get your body you know mentally physically in a good place to go out there and compete and get ready for a great game tampa not only have brady but you also have home advantage the 1st time in super bowl history that a team has competed in their own stadium normally you jump on a plane or you're either a another team's facility or a college facility and getting accustomed to that the 1st few days different meeting rooms so that has been huge for us the kansas city chiefs i mean to win the super bowl for the 2nd year running they've got their own star quarterback patrick now holmes but one of the key many protected him last year is not there this time they're on divin a todd defs quit the team and instead used his medical degree to join the front line battle against 19 idea of the day when you look at 2020 there is there's bigger the bigger issue yet there are bigger issues and playing football and that's why and you know they it's tough but i feel like my job is here to feel like i got

to contribute to the greater fight that there is going on right now roughly $20000.00 fans will be allowed into the game on sunday but the majority will be watching at home and the n.f.l. is urging them to do so responsibly we want our fans to be safe. they need to be smart they need to wear their p.p.d. they need to be some gathering in small groups one thing that might also look at it different is the famous super bowl halftime show but this year's performer the weekend isn't giving much away what we built this stage in the stadium but i'm not going to tell you nothing else because you have to watch on sunday the stage is set for one of the biggest events in world sport brady aiming for a 7th title against more homes 18 years and $45.00 days is junior they've met 4 times before and it's locked at 2 to david stokes al-jazeera. well unlike the super bowl there won't be any fans at rugby's $22016.00 nations which kicks off on

saturday with old foes england and scotland meeting up in the cut a cup while the 2 nations played each other in the 1st half ever rugby international test 150 years ago england are the current 6 nations champions but the last time they hosted scotland the teams played out a thrilling $38.00 all draw their players get an opportunity to play in the story game the 150th time the calcutta cups being played full and the going to be ready for it. and you know we know scotland's going to be out for a bit so. it should be a great occasion what we do know is that sense of all the soviet union because it is a hole that you. want to take. it becomes more of a neutral venue. but you've got to make sure you play. i don't like. on the european golf tour new zealand's ryan fox is the co-leader at the halfway

stage of the saudi international foxes 10 under par after $36.00 holes the kiwi carded a 2nd straight 5 under par $65.00 round to sit ahead of players like sergio garcia phil mickelson and world number one dustin johnson in the world of skiing italy was top of the podium in the men's world cup downhill in germany paris is the reigning super g. world champion and clocked in at one minute 33 seconds to beat the current leader it was the 16th wind of his career in this discipline but then things went downhill fast for his german competitor joseph crashed out after he lost control fortunately the barriers did do their job and 1st all was able to walk away from the incident relatively unharmed but obviously a little shaken up that is brutal well that's it for me in doha back to you maria thanks very much liane. at seventies album back in a couple of minutes with a full bonus and for you at 2200 g.m.t.

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