now more than the world needs w.h.o. making your health feel world. everyone. a way forward for libya after nearly a decade of conflict an interim government is chosen ahead of elections later this year. alone down in jordan this is out there on live from doha also coming up a landmark ruling from the i.c.c. which could pave the way for investigations into war crimes in the occupied palestinian territories. relief at last president joe biden gets the lead from congress to push forward with his $1.00 trillion dollars stimulus package plus.

a star from the golden age of hollywood christopher plummer dies at the age of 91. i reunited libya has moved one step closer off the delegates from the country's warring factions finally agreed on the leaders of an interim government it's hoped this landmark decision could bring an end to the chaos and conflict that's in gulf libya ever since the toppling of moammar gadhafi almost 10 years ago we'll have more on the specific details of the deal a bit later but 1st trainer reports from tripoli. in what the u.n. is calling a historical vote participants of the libyan political dialogue for voted in a 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 it people are reaching across the divide. you know the guarantee is that what you are doing now will. serve your people libya has been golden conflicts for the last 10 years since an armed revolution toppled longtime leader moammar gadhafi in 2011 and april 2019 just days before a un facilitated national conference warlord khalifa haftar began a 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 retook 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 hope they will be able to make some changes but because it's such a short term i doubt they'll be able to dig. into how much money the only thing we want from this government is for it to bring us elections we want a decision for who holds power to return to the people although hopeful some have doubts that the elections can take place so soon 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 in and to hope for and for now many hope that this new transitional government can leave a reconciliation process and bring about elections now trainer al-jazeera. well more now on exactly what's been decided delegates to un brokered talks chose

a diplomat from the east amounted to men feet to head the presidency council and a businessman from the west abdul hamad baby as prime minister but once the caretaker administration is in place the eastern government based into broke and the un recognized government in the capital tripoli will dissolve ending nearly a decade of division the new 3 member presidential council will be responsible for preparing the nation for general elections in december but the issue of foreign fighters remains a un special representative in libya estimates up to $20000.00 turks russians syrians sudanese and chaldeans are still present a lot of serious diplomatic editor james bays asked the u.n. secretary general antonio but that is how domestic libyan should be about the deal . secretary general if i could ask you to put today's developments in the context of a little 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 transitional authority being put in place or going to be put in place and. it is essential that and i complete the answer that i gave it is essential that all foreign fighters and mercenaries move 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 cooperate with the new or saudis to make peace happen in libya the international criminal court has ruled that it does have

a territorial jurisdiction of a palestine this both as the i.c.c. chief prosecutor is only a submission to the court to investigate alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity by israel and potentially by armed palestinian groups in occupied palestinian territories that includes the gaza strip the occupied west bank and east jerusalem. well in 2019 the i.c.c. as chief prosecutor bensouda said she was satisfied that war crimes have been or are being committed and she asked the court to determine if she had jurisdiction for an investigation prompting the ruling the palestinians who joined the i.c.c. in 2015 have been asking the court to look into israeli military actions in the gaza strip and 2014 they also want israel's construction of illegal settlements in the occupied west bank and east jerusalem investigated. we spoke to dr susan powell from a lock up the palestinian human rights organization she says efforts must be made

to avoid any further delays to the investigation. i think the important thing to know from today the pretrial chamber at creech has never find that day and once the present great combination has been close and back at the end of 2019 past the prosecutor has already moved into the investigation phase so we can see even a meeting that the prosecution or canal and sessions already infected patients things so i think we are starting to see the prosecutor already has fines which have been identified by the office or the prosecution or i am at the fire now taken and ringback i think the one thing that we are concerned surprised about the decision today is back at creech watching for fact that there might be a protracted process and. types of cases that we've seen coming before the court has gone for years and years and years and what we thought went for trackage that kind of picking fights but also where we're not very much in the investigation

stage but you know the presence in a very heightened sense of fast because as far as we're concerned we have since 2009 with the 1st premium rate nomination really pushed the courts to open investigation without risk to 3 years neisha we don't have to wait on shows we have that have to wait on chess and 2015 and 22nd preliminary examination show from and we think waiting all of the time i was preparing the mission pillow at the at the end just 2019 were over a year waiting for at the pretrial chamber to make that decision and we would say we can no longer waste any for their. u.s. president joe biden as congress to back his $1.00 trillion dollar pandemic relief plan the house of representatives has has approved the budget blueprint and democrats want to possibly final version by the end of the month the american

economy is struggling to recover with 10000000 jobs lost at the start of the pandemic still not replaced is a white house correspondent kimberly help that. it's a nearly 2 trillion dollar economic plan designed to rebuild the u.s. economy decimated since back in march due to the spread of code 19 this is about people's lives biden's plan includes direct payments to struggling americans of $1400.00 unemployment benefits would be extended until september $400.00 a week the plan would provide relief to working and middle class americans particularly communities of color disproportionately harmed by the pandemic and i want to say very clearly on this speech very clear at this point it's better economics not only addresses the immediate crisis really it's better for the long term economic health of our nation and our competitiveness. still republicans and

democrats are other able to agree on the details so democrats have cut republicans out of the process the vice president votes in the affirmative in an early friday morning vote vice president connelly harris broke a 5050 tie in the u.s. senate over details of the rescue plan paving the way for democrats who control congress and the white house to pass their legislation into law if i have to choose between getting help right now to americans who are hurting so badly and getting dragged bogged down in a lovely negotiation or compromise in a bill that's that's up to the crisis this is your choice i'm going to help the american people are heard now the relief is badly needed on friday the labor department reported the u.s. had added just 49000 jobs. with covert infections high and businesses shut down millions remain out of work and economic recovery at best is sluggish there's

fear even with economic stimulus checks americans will save instead of spending giving you usually spending a bug every 5 once again better than not getting a and i don't need it but it's just not a solution right it's stop the bleeding it's not. a large stimulus comes with risk there is fear of unintended consequences like inflation and a weakened american dollar but democrats in congress and the white house believe that right now those risks are worth it if americans can get back to work can really help get al-jazeera washington. the diplomatic fallout over russia's treatment of opposition leader alexina valley is intensifying it comes after russia expelled 3 foreign diplomats for joining protests against him being jailed and now in the valley has appeared in court for the 2nd time in

a week he's being accused of defaming a world war 2 veteran under simmons has more for. russia's foreign ministry says the diplomats had attended what it called illegal demonstrations last month in support of alexina valmy thousands of protesters were arrested in a series of rallies the ministry isn't saying how many of the diplomats from germany sweden and poland there expelling. the bench newcomers only hours after an avanti was back in court again on the european union's top diplomat was also in moscow calling for the opposition leaders really. 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 e.u. foreign policy was meeting surrogate lover of russia's foreign minister high on barrels agenda was the plight of no valley who had been poisoned with a nerve agent novacek and received lifesaving treatment in germany last september they have conveyed to minister lavrov i wanted concerned and prayed to rated our appeal to release on the launch of an impartial investigation of the peace. love roth talked of the low points in relations with the e.u. so just pushed on you because it's true that not at their best partly due to the illegitimate restrictions which are introduced by a use under trumped up pretext it's a reference there to eat huge trade in financial sanctions imposed after russia's annexation of crimea in the ukraine conflict in 2014.

breakthrough in the news considering further sanctions against russia over the value of. andrew simmons al-jazeera. lots more to come here now to syria including a 10 day stay in a quarantine hotel that will soon become pulse rate for many visitors to the u.k. the government's accused of not acting quickly enough and is under fire from members of his own party about nepal's prime minister manages to put in a big crowd of supporters in the heat in the heart of the capital money at stake that's. how we got plenty of when she weather forecast across north america at the moment a long line of cloud rise sleet and snow sliding down across the eastern seaboard

and we got this next weather system which is roll its way through as we go on through the next couple of days said. that 1st area of rain states no pushing outs into the open waters when she weather coming back in across the plains heading towards the midwest as we go through saturday and more snow coming off the rockies through the mountain states so that's what's a weather down towards the southeast that will linger there across the panhandle sinking further south was what affect the super bowl as we go on through sunday making its way across tampa but clear weather coming in behind not just by that stage well something of a nor'easter there will bring a fair bit of snow there into the canadian maritimes but hopefully not too bad for new england for the next area snow makes its way across the mountain states as the california here is slushy 5 and dried out see about it so with plenty of sunshine and a fair bit of sunshine say into the caribbean we got some bits and pieces of shabby rain just around the great around to this but more in the way of sunshine than shallow as shallow still in place as we go on through sunday want to see showers by the states into hispania or maybe the odd shower into the east and is going to be

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player. welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here at this hour libya's warring factions have agreed on the leaders of an interim government diplomat from the east will head a presidency council and a businessman from the west will be prime minister those 2 sides have battled to control move it since 2014. the international criminal court says it has territorial jurisdiction of the palestine and the i.c.c. as chief prosecutor has been asking the court mission to investigate alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity by israel and palestinian groups. and u.s. president joe biden has urged congress to pass a $1.00 trillion dollar pandemic when he will outline it's been approved in the house of representatives and democrats are hoping to pass a final version by the end of the month.

not travelers arriving to the u.k. from corona virus hotspots will now have to quarantine for 10 days the so-called red list of countries including most of latin america southern africa and the u.a.e. thousands of hotel rooms now see an airport something booked and arrivals will have to foot the bill as designed to stop the spread of new take to virus strains that involve has more from london's heathrow airport. 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 country at airports like here at heathrow and around the u.k. as well as seaports 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 arrivals 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 coverage $1000.00 response likening it to murder it says the actions of some politicians amount to premeditated and reckless indifference to human life the authors call for leaders to be held to account for the 2000000 deaths worldwide they say the scope of institutions like the international criminal court could be broadened to cover state failings during demick people have been forced to camp outdoors in peru to secure oxygen supplies

for relatives sick with coronavirus supplies are running low as the country deals with a 2nd wave of infections many peruvian families say their relatives have died because they couldn't get oxygen refills or couldn't afford them in some cases the price for refilling an oxygen tank has increased 6 fold. hong kong has issued sweeping new rules for schools children as young as 6 to be taught about the controversial new security law imposed by mainland china books that are claimed to endanger national security will also be removed from libraries the government censors meant to give children a clear identity to the part of reports now from hong kong. 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 after probating politicians in china state media 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 laws imposed by beijing in july until recently the targets 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 plus in the past the people can express themselves freely. among each of fraid of any consequence but now the situation change i think it really affects the 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 worn teachers there's no room for debate or compromise when it comes to national security there we go palin hong kong pakistan's prime minister says he's ready to talk to his indian counterpart about kashmir while also lashing out at his neighbors policies in the disputed region imran khan accuse narendra modi of having a government which sponsors hatred against islam rallies were held in pakistani administered kashmir to mark kashmir solidarity day tensions been high since india revoked the autonomy of the region in august 29 team both countries claim the region. a digital crackdown by me on mars minute on protesters organizing online is intensifying after facebook now twitter and instagram a block for users in the country. but that hasn't deterred a growing number of people from joining likely protests for the 5th straight day they are part of

a growing civilian disobedience movement against me and mass general who seized power in monday's military coup people are demanding the release of the deposed civilian leader unsanctioned chief and several others a close aide and sina and in the party leader wynton was also arrested on friday. in nepal tens of thousands of supporters of the prime minister only had gathered in the capital katmandu against anti-government protesters. after he dissolved parliament in december a move many say was unconstitutional. the reports now from. a fashionable shopping street in downtown london was turned into a political arena for the day thousands of supporters of prime minister keep the factions of the governing nepal communist party came to be. in support many arrived from outlying districts. if the party called work together it's best to go for

a fresh electoral mandate which we support all he was elected prime minister in february 2018 after his party won the legislative elections he then formed a governing coalition with support from former maoist rebels becoming the 1st prime minister to be elected under the newly adopted constitution and in 2015 the ball is in a political crisis as partisan politics and infighting within the ruling communist party has caused a major both factions one led by prime minister. and the other by former prime minister. appear headed for a showdown as they step up the political rhetoric and try to win support in their particular favor of the opposing faction of the governing party and opposition parties have been holding protests against that's after he dissolved parliament in december and announced new elections to be held in april and they say the prime minister's move is undemocratic and the constitution. or the decision to

dissolve parliament is a constitutional we are protesting against this regressive. actions have also galvanized civil society protests he's moving unconstitutional because this new constitution we have 2007. drew does not make this kind of provision in which he can just come and dissolve parliament just like that there are certain procedures he should have followed before the parliament could have been dissolved only the latest in the series of moves that have been happening in this country since 2010 soviet against all those moves. since both factions claim to control the governing party the issue is being disputed at the election commission whether m.p.'s return to work or the country goes to elections it's the people who will likely be affected after giving the government demanded to lead for 5 years by a comfortable majority of. the time. and oscar winner

christopher plummer has died at the age of 91 he was best known for his role as captain von trapp opposite julie andrews in the 1965 blockbuster the sound of music al-jazeera as christensen to me looks back on his 6 decades in film television and on stage for. christopher plummer was a classically trained actor in his native canada on broadway and on the london stage. the sadness. the comedy and tragedy the world came to know him as captain von trapp and one of the highest grossing movies of all time the sound of music. the. more you see. the film's success caught him by

surprise here are words of a sudden we're very famous. none of us really realize there were. no words and of course of course of everybody stuart so i was were disappointed that the part i was playing it was. rather boring are for and are tried so hard to america remender sternberg rude very difficult when i had roles in more than $200.00 films including the royal hunt of the sun the last station and the insider so what do you think i don't plan to spend the end of my days wandering in the wilderness of national public radio. he won the best supporting actor oscar and the british film academy award for beginners in 2012 at the age of 82 playing a man who discovers his true sexual identity and old age only 2 years older than me dolly would be the real normal. in the years since plummer remained active on

the big screen stepping in to replace kevin spacey in the 2017 film all the money in the world after spacey was dropped from the movie as a result plummer then aged 88 became the oldest oscar nominee for his role as j. paul getty he's survived by his wife elaine and daughter the actor amanda plummer. time for a quick check of the headlines here on the al-jazeera libya's warring factions have agreed on the leaders of an interim government a diplomat from the east will head a presidency council and a businessman from the west will be prime minister those 2 sides a battle to control libya since 2014 well u.n. secretary general antonio ted as held a deal as a reason for optimism i do believe it is a breakthrough and it is following.