moving across the east side of the u.s. clear skies and sas type of more snow making its way through the plains. al-jazeera. clo this is the news hour on al-jazeera fully back to the live from our world headquarters in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. growing anger in yanmar after monday's military coup that is a large demonstration in young dawn despite an internet shut down. promise in india broke highways across the country as a

a month long protest against laws they say will destroy their livelihoods couldn't teams also this hour just so weak few weeks right after donald trump state department labeled yemen's who sees terrorists joe biden's administration changes course and beyond the pandemic we take a look at the social impact of prolonged coronavirus restrictions in its. i'm going to go with the sports as england cricket captain jerry roots mashes a double century to put them in control of the 1st test against india. thank you very much for joining us the 1st major street protests have taken place in myanmar 6 days after the military seize control of the government and arrested its civilian leaders hundreds marched in the largest city of a young gone on saturday night against the cool heavily armed police blocked off

main roads this is a shop escalation from earlier demonstration which were launched a limited to banging. pots and pans and online protests and the anger has swelled since army leaders broncs waiter and ensor graham after having shut down access to facebook early in the week on tycoon messages had been trending across the platforms before they were disabled al-jazeera thorne's 3 has more from kuala lumpur. hundreds of people are out on the streets of yangon banks students young and old many addressed and read the color of the national league for democracy party or the n l d. it one november's election by a landslide a result the military has refused to record its citing unsubstantiated allegations of fraud the banners read against military dictatorship. these people are calling for the release of the elected leader aung san suu kyi and others who've been

detained. protests have grown from just banging pots at night in yangon. the civil disobedience movement medical staff went on strike 1st and were joined on friday by lecturers and other government employees didn't have another food i will marry out we don't one does 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. the threat of arrest is going astray and shown to know an economic advisor to own sons eugene was reportedly taken into custody on saturday another key aide when taking who called on the public to oppose the coup was detained on friday on charges of sedition. the attorney for the deposed president when mint says he hasn't been able to contact either of them. as far as i

know they are under house arrest to choose a new private home not one given by the government the movement is not at the president's residence but in a separate home that is what i heard activists are also being held this is the moment that weighing in says her father a former student protest leader was taken away by soldiers it's been 5 days since my father and. the rest. were on monday morning and then we haven't heard anything about ration where they are being held or a health condition all the family members very worried. the military is gradually cutting off the population from one another and the outside world 1st by blocking facebook twitter and instagram and now shutting down the internet u.k. based internet monitoring group says that saturday 2 pm local time internet connectivity in myanmar had fallen to 16 percent of ordinary level. party has

declared itself the sole legitimate representative of the people in a show of defiance about a dozen l.d. m.p.'s convened a symbolic parliamentary session on thursday yangon regional m.p.'s held a swearing in ceremony via. international pressure on myanmar is growing. the un security council has called on the military to release and others who are being detained the us is considering targeted sanctions and in the region malaysian and indonesian leaders have called on the association of southeast asian nations or audience to hold a special meeting. but the generals have been down this road before me on most military leaders were shunned by the west when they ran the country from 962 to 2011 they want to be giving up power so easily florence italy al-jazeera kuala lumpur. joining us now. tokyo is the director of net blogs the group that's monitoring the online crackdown in myanmar he joins us via skype from london very

good to have you with us they settle there you've been monitoring the communication services in myanmar very closely i understand 1st it was specific social media services like facebook and twitter being cut off but now it appears it's the whole internet including more bile and broadband that are being restricted just how bad is it how widespread are these disruptions. in the last few hours the situation has deteriorated rapidly we've seen this kind of modest pro-censorship in will become more and more severe over the days and in the last few hours such day muhly protests really to go we've seen internet connectivity a national scale you fool 16 percent over 11 so we're now looking at simulations to black out it's an information vacuum that will severely limit citizens ability to communicate with each other and also with the outside world is it just the internet

or a mobile service is also. to retract the interconnectivity but we do also talk to people on the ground and we've been hearing about. loss of telephony so people can't make calls people are reading cut off especially when they're out and about when they're on the streets they can't share pictures they can share videos when they get back home sometimes and learn works sometimes it doesn't but when it does work social media platforms it looks there's the facebook restriction whatsapp has also been throttled and twitter is also restricted so there are multiple techniques and multiple methods being used to control speech here and it isn't always visible which is why we've been monitoring so closely to try to get word went out right and so how easy is it is it for the military to close down the said this is and again the legally justified doing this. military has always been pulling the strings in some from the other and we've found that they were quite easily able to control internet connectivity itself through

a variety of mechanisms now 1st of all since the internet is in myanmar already aligned with the military so. having them switch off the internet or restrict services isn't such a big deal but there are other providers as well present this tunnel which is a regional international group which doesn't really want to switch people off it's got commitments to its investors to the outside world and operators have been pressured by the military and they have been forced to switch off services and the internet so beyond this we've seen really various forms of restriction make a full range to a suite of restrictions this this week right and that the power of the internet has been very obvious and of course in the military itself as use facebook as we've seen in the past for propaganda people right now who are trying to protest cisco are they able to get around that the bands for instance that can make connect to 2

neighboring networks if they wanted to. so the pins worked this is a method of circumventing censorship working restrictions in the last few days but not recently the kind of research in that we see now is it necessary amenable to this kind of circumvention which means that people aren't able to work around this or shootings anymore so even those privileged few who were able to use those tools are now moved cuts off the neighbor which is really concerning because i spoke to a friend there is week and she said. she said the one thing we're concerned about is being completely cut off from the world and that's the situation that we're starting to look at now right and unfortunately it's not just me and watch who was face a situation this has happened in other countries and it's even happening now with twitter in india under strong pressure from indian authorities to block accounts and posts relating to the pharmacy protests there is there any any recourse for the

social media companies or for the operators operating in this country. will the challenge is really that the people frameworks and always control it with that with horses will always have their way that the end of the day and there's this constant. battle between civil society and private stakeholders versus authorities so. people need to keep pushing back to have their voices heard thank you so much for talking to us about this topic or from net blogs joining us there from london about the online situation in myanmar thank you very much. and as you just heard across the border in india the government has also cut off internet and phone lines after protests around its capital new delhi according to one survey india restricted internet use more than any other nation last year farmers have now ramped up their protests against cultural reforms by blocking roads across the country the months long demonstrations on the outskirts of new delhi have been

mostly peaceful but they turned violent last month when thousands of farmers breach barricades around the city it is it has this update from gaza for. where are the guys who protest site where foreigners continue to occupy this key highway into delhi they've been here for more than 2 months but today we're seeing protesters blocking other highways around the country including in the start and how to punjab and we've seen police detaining protesters in the southern city of. and this is all after pharmacy asked anyone who supports them to block highways for 3 hours in protest against the government's agriculture laws now in response delhi police have deployed $50000.00 police and paramilitary personnel in and around the capital there are extra drones flying other protest signs extra c.c.t.v. cameras they've closed a number of metro stations and they're saying that they're taking all of these precautions after the some of the violent clashes that took place on india's

republic day last week when we saw protesters. breach police barricades and even go to the historic red fortune climb towards just hours after province in that interim addressed the nation from the. in other world news the u.s. state department has to drop its terrorist as ignition for yemen's home fees president biden had highlighted the need to find a diplomatic solution to the war in yemen during his 1st major foreign policy speech these were unable terrorists by the trump administration but humanitarian groups warned this could affect crucial a deliveries some town a big old maisie advocacy manager for the norwegian refugee council she explains how the terrorist designation affects humanitarian work even when there are exemptions. the 1st thing to save this designation was coming at a time when yemen faces an unprecedented set of catastrophe so battered by 6 years of all 60000000 people at risk of starvation one in

2 yemenis cope with 19. the economy getting. yes more people lost their jobs you also basically the. food prices rising at the same time so for humanitarian organizations what we were concerned about is even with exemptions made by the us government disowning provided limited protection of the woods to it would still continue to delay humanitarian aid operations as we never get these new legal risks and complexities but what we were particularly concerned about is what this meant for the private sector. what does this mean for getting food fuel and medicines into the country what we've seen in other contexts is private sector such as banks are risk averse and any uncertainty caused by about this time actions regime and exemptions would

have meant private shipping companies. commercial companies would be reluctant to bring food fuel and medicines into the country so this is really well decision by the u.s. government and a sigh of relief for the yemeni people over $100.00 killed by ice all fighters in 2014 have been made to rest in a funeral service in northwest iraq their remains were found in mass graves last year and identified through d.n.a. testing the religious minority was targeted by ice or because of their faith the u.n. estimates at least 5000 d.s.e. these were murdered and 7000 women and girls abducted and enslaved libya's rival factions have agreed to an interim unity government until elections are held in december there's hope the landmark decision could start fighting that engulfed the country since the toppling of more market afy nearly 10 years ago 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 that people are reaching across the divide. you know the guarantee is that what you are doing now will. serve your people libya has been gold in 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 un

recognized government with turkish support retook western libya. here in tripoli most people are hopeful that this transitional government can make some changes but . the government will have a large task at hand it will not be easy we have the will be able to make some changes because it's such a short term i doubt they'll be able to do. for funneling to have that 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 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 and to hope for and for now many hope that this new transitional government

can leave a reconciliation process and bring about elections now traina al jazeera tripoli well the u.n. secretary general antonio terrace has hailed agreement as a step towards peace. 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. that's more ahead on the news hour including israel objects to an international criminal court ruling that could lead to war imes investigations in the occupied palestinian territory refugees on the move in colombia trekking through one of the world's most dangerous jungles in hope of a better life and n.b.a.

star kevin durant's spends his anger after being removed from the game because of coronavirus falls as coming up in sports with joe. first saturday in union leaders are meeting by video conference for their annual summit they're likely to discuss a range of shared concerns including the covert $1000.00 and them again the struggle to secure an axes also on the agenda growing unrest in the syal region and in central african republic as bringing in our just here is markham webb in nairobi kenya for us so mark i'm a lot of items on the agenda of the summit how much attention 1st will they be on the coronavirus crisis. with one of one of the 3 items on the agenda. we are expecting the african union center for disease control and its vaccine task force report to the african union and this

comes of this summit comes at a time where africa finds itself at the bottom of a grossly on equal distribution of globally with the richest countries snapping up the vast majority of doses available the world's richest countries are expected to have most of their populations vaccinated by some point later this year the world's poorest countries experts say it's going to be at least 3 years away if it ever happens at all many of those countries are in the african continent the african union has been trying to help fight this vaccine shortage the c.d.c. has secured about 670000000 vaccines and about 14. african countries are said they want to participate in this bulk buying scheme but by the middle of this year they're hoping at best to a vaccination on average about 3 percent of the population across the can to continent so that's pretty much going to be health workers frontline health workers and just a few other people i mean this is just pales compared to for example the united

kingdom as one of the fastest running vaccine programs where the government has enough to doses for 6 times its population who will be learning more about this as the summit progress is today and tomorrow and so what can we expect from the african union on the conflicts that are taking some parts of the continent like central african republic of course but also in ethiopia. none of those conflicts are specifically on the agenda is certainly possible that they will be discussed ethiopia is the official host of this summit although it's happening but actually this year it's not happening in ethiopia's capital addis ababa earlier just a couple of months ago when that conflict integrate but we began the chairman south african president opposed to try to intervene and he sent 3 former presidents from across the continent to addis ababa to meet with prime minister to try and start

peace talks and try and deescalate that conflict it didn't succeed they didn't get to meet prime minister they didn't get to meet with the p.l.f. and there were reports of low level fighting continuing right up until now ethiopia the government of ethiopia has made it pretty clear it considers this conflict to be a domestic affair it's not open to any kind of foreign attempts that mediation we would only expect to see the african union raising its voice on this in the event that several of its most powerful members had both a motive and political will to try and try and put pressure on for example to opening up humanitarian access and other things but there's no sign of that just at the moment thank you for that malcolm webb live in nairobi. somalia is full as co-leaders a failed to agree on new elections just hours before the end of the president's term last year they agreed to hold indirect bonum entry and presidential elections

but that deal of broke down after disagreements between the president and regional leaders. is monitoring the situation for us in somalia also in nairobi kenya mohammed so why did the talks break down and where does this leave the electoral process. well it leaves the electoral process in limbo. and a period of political uncertainty once again and no one is brave enough to predict what happens from here on in the main issue that was contentious the. talks in town over the summer have been central somalia was who should manage elections in the province of good or which happens to be president mohamed apply for a module home province and he says he wants to manage the election of 17 members of parliament in the town of got behind me which also happens to be all hometown

something that was. outright rejected by the government the regional government in jubilant whose face is. and that is how the talks collapsed on from do some of the president went straight to mogadishu where he briefed column and saying that he was not to blame for the intransigence on the collapse of the talks and is ted blame the regional government of google which is ted was. of but blocking of the government of kenya something kenya has always denied now president mohammed apply for much of monday to end on monday just hours from now and the presidential candidates from the opposition including to hama president list one former prime minister saying they will not allow an extension of even one more hour and a prisoner mamedov life her mother should live off this as soon as monday it is over

ok thank you very much for that monica. in nairobi. people in tunisia are holding a mass demonstration to mark the one year anniversary of the anniversary of the death of a prominent left wing activist thousands of people join the rally at the same place in tunis where 8 years ago politicians shot rebel aide was killed they're calling for the truth about political assassinations to be revealed they're also condemning the spread of hate speech and violence. in chile protesters have burned down several government buildings in the southern town of bangor preen after a police killing of a street juggler video released on social media shows police officers approaching the artist so we've ordered his identity they fired several shots at the man who seemed to be holding machetes and media say these were props for his performance. in colombia hundreds of migrants and refugees are resuming their journey to the

united states after being stranded for weeks because of the coronavirus pandemic but to get to the u.s. border there have to 1st cross one of the most dangerous jungles in the world laura bird manly has asked henri stranded on this beach for weeks in makeshift homes hundreds of refugees have finally be given the green light by authorities to leave colombia's seaside town of nick oakley the town which neighbors part of a has closed its borders last march to prevent the spread of crude a virus. the people's desperation to lead is evident. migration authority says the group is mostly made up of patients but includes some from cuba and africa they're all looking to make a better life themselves in the u.s. . who trip will take them across the caribbean go straight to caprica from them the trip becomes the sleeve dangerous moment at the moment we have to cross the

panama and from panama if we can continue to mexico. but it means 1st getting through the daring gap one of the most impenetrable jungles in the americas it stretches for most 100 kilometers connecting colombia upon him of not only do they have to pick their way through dense vegetation and extreme humidity but it's also an area known for drug and people smuggling gangs. in the jungle we have to walk for almost a week so we have to carry water food as well and in the jungle they are wild animals so we have to carry machetes for safety these dangerous parts have become the only way north for thousands of people over the past few years not all of them survive most year colombia deported about 3800 people mostly from haiti local officials say there must be a better solution. all we want all the authorities all the governments

that in one way or another to deal with this migratory dynamic to concentrate their efforts towards the search for a solution to this problem that afflicts us not only in colombia in a cockley but in the world in general these people say they're scared of what lies ahead a low they're risking their lives but having already fled poverty conflict or persecution many see little choice but to push on. al-jazeera try fighters are battling a wildfire in argentina's patagonia it's burning the arab or so on and has already destroyed more than $10000.00 hectares of the what it mountainous region as a driest the country has seen since 1905 causing an extensive and prolonged drought well let's get an update on the world weather now his attitude foxx. however the weather is looking good for the start of the tennis in melbourne the as we go on into next week we have got so west of weather now in the process of pulling away

from the southeastern corner of australia sweater weather further north as well just up around the gulf of carpentaria pushing up into the cape york peninsula and then we've seen some useful rain just around that western side of us just pushing down towards perth we've had the bushfires the winds didn't really help but we are looking at wetter weather coming in to dampen those bushfires now so that is good news is cool though for the start of the tennis temperatures at around 18 or 19 celsius by monday as we go on through the week it will warm up nicely so we see some proper tennis weather grassy setting in northern parts will still see some showers some showers there over towards the eastern side of queensland so what's the weather grassy pushing towards new zealand but ahead of that is fine and dry $29.00 celsius and crushed not too bad here not too bad too across japan at the moment but i'm afraid we do have more wintry weather coming in over the next couple of days when it's going back around to more and more they are northwesterly direction more snow coming into that western side of honshu into hokkaido sinking

a little further south which is we go on into monday turning cooler in the process tokyo with a high then of 9 degrees. thank you everton still ahead on the al-jazeera news hour when you get the point to get. in. 1000 patients in south africa turn to a controversial dr get a desperate bid to trace the virus. only 2 years older than mugabe were the real normal. oscar winning actor christopher palmer best known for his role in the sound of music has died at the age of 91 and in sports calls top player hits the wayward shot and a volunteer feels the effects of being hit by one of the most powerful golf that's in the game that's coming up to stay with us. oh man has a rich history but also plays an important diplomatic role in the gulf region today

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the ear of the in. there watching al-jazeera live from doha with me fully back to our reminder of our top stories the 1st major street protests have taken place in myanmar 6 days after the military seize control of the government and have rested its civilian leaders hundreds marched in the largest city of young gone on saturday angry about a coup. promising in india ramping up their protests against agricultural the films by grokking bolds across the country they say the government is using repressive measures to clamp down on their demonstrations and the u.s. state department is to drop its terrorist designation for yemen's who sees this comes after president biden had highlighted the need to find

a diplomatic solution to the war in yemen during his 1st major foreign policy speech. the international criminal court has ruled it does have territorial jurisdiction in the occupied palestinian territory this bolsters the i.c.c. chief prosecutor's effort to investigate suspected walker arms by israel and potentially by palestinian armed groups that includes the gaza strip the occupied west bank and east jerusalem and the biden administration says it objects to the i.c.c. decision why these are any prime minister benjamin netanyahu is accusing the international criminal court of anti-semitism. for free. this is pure anti-semitism. the court established to prevent to trust cities like the nazi holocaust against the jewish people is not targeting the one state of the jewish people 1st it outrageously things that when jews live in our homeland this

is a war crime and 2nd it claims that when democratic israel defends itself against terrorists who murder our children rocket our cities we're committing another war crime yet the i.c.c. refuses to investigate brutal dictatorships like iran and syria who commit horrific atrocities almost daily as prime minister of israel i assure you we will fight this perversion of justice with all our might and earlier we spoke to suzanne power from a palestinian human rights organization she says any further delays to the investigation should be avoided. i think the important thing to know from today the pretrial chamber. preacher has never find that the once the preliminary examination has been close and back at the end of 2019 past the prosecution 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 infected patients 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'm at the fire he has taken and ringback i think the one thing that we are concerned surprised from the decision today in fact preach watching for fact that there might be a protracted process. and. types of cases that we've seen coming before the court has gone on for years and years and years and once we thought it went for trackage that kind just picking fights but also where we are now and very much in the investigation stage. presence in a very high concerns with class because as far as we're concerned we have since 2009 with the 1st premium rate nomination really pushed the courts to open investigation when that was killed 3 years neisha we don't have to wait on shows we have that have to wait on chess and 2015 hours for the 2nd preliminary examination

show from and we think waiting all of the time i would preliminary examination pro at the at the end just 2019 were over a year waiting for at the pretrial chain but you make the decision and we would say we can no longer waste any for their. no the nigeria now where tanks by armed groups in the northwest have worsened and already high level of poverty in the region 2020 was one of the region's most violent years with more than a 1000 people killed in raids on communities algis there is a major history for some so what a way for struggling to rebuild. mahmoud mahmoud subways what's left of his $2000000.00 investment for 7 years he says he walked hard to get his $150.00 ekta from running then one night men arrived and left it in ruins we came in to the farm after the harvest of the year carted almost all the products

that we have included the i mean most the she gains everything including machines and even seats ordinary things that we kept for for that application with were taken away by them. after that he says they torched the farm reducing the orchard and the b. section. he may have lost his farm but not the parson and definitely something he starting a small 110 kilometers away from the relative safety of our city. well there are thousands of others here in sokoto state who can either go back to their farms to have the capital to start a new government have raided cattle robbed families and kidnapped hundreds for run some that some families are forced to borrow or even sell of their assets to pay. economy say attacks like these are accelerating poverty at a rate never seen before in nigeria it takes

a very long time for them to. be able to be where they are overnight you know destructions might have won in a very short time but it takes a lot of time to recover these other also abuse although to take care of themselves and also to bail some of their family members who are been kidnapped by these kind of. page that is going on the bureau of statistics says 3 of nigeria's 10 most poorest states are in the northwest region blighted by these attacks the poverty level averages a staggering 85 percent the attacks are also affecting the delivery of services as revenues for that affects the capacity of a leader to govern well to think well to plan well secondly resources ways we know all of the situation in the country in particular in the north and it's ok to state this is a very limited and there are competing demands there's

a little you have security which is a question of funding so it drains the little resources that you have that ordinarily should deploy for development in addressing them famine which supports our farmers suppose our economy is haven't some challenges because farmers on their farm land i've been reluctant traders in markets across the region say cells are down because people cannot afford items as basic as food. the nigerian militaries and ground offensive in the region has not stopped the attacks on poor rural communities they're most severe in 4 states of the northwest but check on boundaries with. experts warned that unless they're stopped the entire region risks descending into onic how many agrees. to. police in

chad have gas has hundreds of people protest and president nomination for a 6 term in office he's been officially named his party's candidate for april's election debbie has been in power for 30 years. trying to introduce a monarchy. has more from senegal. police fired tear gas against protesters demonstrating against the nomination of president idriss deby who will be running for 6 mandate in the upcoming presidential election that's taking place on the 11th of april and protest erupted in different neighborhoods of the capital in germany these were protests led by the opposition but also by human rights activists their plan was to march towards the presidential palace before police fired tear gas arrested some of them some sought refuge even inside the u.s. embassy meanwhile the president was at the party headquarters accepting this nomination now he's been in power for the last 30 years thanks in part to the

presence of french forces of the former colonial power. the headquarters of the block an operation for its a hell region based in the capital of chad now they intervened twice though inside the country to protect president debi from attempts to overthrow him now during this period of over 30 years it has to be has a mouse enormous amount of wealth he's placed some members of his family in key position in government meanwhile 13000000 people living in live. on less than $2.00 a day in a country that's rich in oil that human rights groups accuse the president and his government of not only amassing wealth and corruption but also quassia dissent and this again is happening and appears just months before the presidential election.

the coronavirus pandemic now in south africa has allowed the use of a controversial drug to treat covered 1000 patients are met 10 has grown into popularity but its unregulated use has raised concerns about its sale on the black market. for some johannesburg. ciro who doesn't want to use her real name was diagnosed with copd 19 and ammonia in january she was admitted to hospital when she could not breathe properly and without the hospital's knowledge began using a drug called ivermectin organize. i would make them for me and then i had to be basically smuggled into the hospital which i felt and so on traffic was. this is something that's going to help people something there are people who need something that people are. feeling as a criminal. for you to try and save your loved one you know at that point.

when you get the point of death you would do in syria is so convinced the drug saved her life she also gave it to a parents who'd also tested positive for covert 19 they all use the drug without medical supervision ivermectin is not registered in south africa for human consumption until now it's been used to treat animals for things like parasites but its popularity and illegal use has for south africa's health products with already to allow what it's calling controlled use of the medicine and in this way monitor its use think about it it's an 8 page form which you have to pull in on line each time you have a patient it takes an hour to fill in the form the requirements to use ivermectin have since been relaxed now doctors can use the drug uncovered 1000 patients while they wait for approval. but they are concerned that regulations and delays will only theel the black market rather than control the drugs use this is the 2nd

police bust of ivermectin tablets being smuggled into south africa in recent weeks here more than 300000 tablets were brought in illegally from abroad authorities are worried the un regulated you survive the mix and could lead to an overdose and say there's no clear evidence the drug works the biggest concern is the highest use and the fact that there's been a. track. and. i am not. overdosing on the drug can cause blindness neurological effects and liver damage globally at least 5 countries want to use ivermectin to treat code that 19 including india and argentina south africa plans to begin clinical trials on the effectiveness of ivermectin to treat covert 19 but that may be of little interest to those desperate to get their hands on the drug which they

believe saves lives i mean al-jazeera johannesburg. and in its sleeve has been a 3 fold increase in the number of people seeking food handouts in role because of the pandemic also of those needing assistance have lost their jobs are gone bankrupt during lockdowns in the last 12 months stephanie decker reports on the italian capital. the sun has barely come up and this winter morning still has that cold feel of night and yet people lined up here before the church gates opened no one wants to talk to us many don't want to be filmed most are italian but we're told demand for food parcels has gone up 3 fold since $1000.00 started to sorel more. there are many impoverished many who had work a family home living in normal conditions you know rome lived on tourism small businesses that went bankrupt so amount of streets you also find these new italian . rita is one of them her husband was recently taken into hospital and her 25 year

old daughter lost her job a few months ago she has a widowed son and she would go and help with his housework while he was working on babies and for the children with outdated ma there and him alone so it's normal that i want to help she hasn't been able to visit for more than 2 months now coronavirus means maintaining distance from her family but it also means real economic hardship she says it's now impossible to find work and that feels like losing all dignity is staggering. it's really a humiliating to receive handouts when you worked all your life even with the pain and sweat on your hands you come back home at night you are tired but you know you'll hern that money like these no now i really understand poverty the marginalised people are those who live on the street in the cold. this church tries to help those people to 12 homeless men come here to sleep we're told half of

them lost their jobs during the pandemic others had tough lives even before the virus struck ilia agreed to talk to us on camera he describes the job situation as terrible. very difficult. for a man over my age. but i also had 1000 has affected his life. before in this quarter we will be able going site somewhere no nothing no work to stay i mean they can't have us in the day we leave in the morning gotta 70th to it we're outside all day with the cold is really tough the coronavirus has impacted everyone in one way or another and here as the lights are about to be turned down for the night perhaps a few hours of warmth of comfort but little else before having to face another day on the streets stephanie decker al-jazeera rome. and still ahead on the news hour

in sports. i'm andy richardson at the club world cup in qatar where a new approach to protecting players from concussion injuries is being child for the 1st time. the only u.s. president to be impeached twice acquitted the 1st time but will donald trump make it out on scathed a 2nd time he faces charges of inciting insurrection and a possible disqualification from future public office we'll bring you the latest developments from capitol hill trump on trial on al-jazeera. even recent history can become ops cute 3 intrepid photojournalists returned to the at the center of peru's civil war and track down the brave characters that they had captured through their lenses 30 years earlier. imagine a rising challenge to the official history that denies indigenous peoples

contribution to the peace process witness seeing again on a jersey. from the favelas of caracas to the battlefields around most of our job is to get to the truth and the power people through knowledge. time now for sports history polly thank you very much in an cricketers are in control of the 1st test against india in chennai they reached 5558 at the close of play on day 2 captain jerry root resumed on 128 and reached a double century by hitting a 6 were displaying in his 100th test match and it's the 3rd match in

a row that he's hit 150 will all eventually out for $218.00 having spent 9 hours at the crease and stokes also made $82.00 and says the team isn't all of their skipper course prize you round out with. the 6 to bring up the double. yeah he's in phenomenal for. just making things at very very easy and the way they play spades well dominates. is incredible to watch not to well i don't think it happening but it's been a place that in the way that he does it's got he's got an answer and options for everything us. yeah it's just a delight to watch the. european champions behind munich heading to the club world cup on the back of another victory in the german bundesliga on a snowy night in berlin that was a rare missed penalty from their goal scoring machine profit leavened up against

her to berlin but kingsley kerman's deflected shot secured by an 5th win and in league win in a row to put them 10 points clear they now had to warmer conditions here in qatar to play the pub world cup semifinal against africa's africa's champions actually. the club world cup is being used to test a new approach to protect players from concussion teams will be allowed to make an additional substitution if a player has a head injury and he ritchson reports. the last thing any player wants is to get taken off during a game particularly during its ornaments like the club world cup but when it comes to concussion football authorities are aiming to change attitudes concussion is often called the hidden injury because people don't limp or bleed or it goes unnoticed often doctors it cuts are sports or sports medicine hospital say educating players about the risks of concussion is a key part of their job in an english premier league game late last year

a head to head collision left will play a role him in as with a fractured skull but arsenal's david luis played on for a further 40 minutes the club insists he did pass an on pitch medical check if you get a 2nd bang to the head before the 1st one is healed then it causes havoc in the brain and that can be it can be fatal we focus on the performance as picked as things because of somebodies brain is not functioning 100 percent it can affect your judgment on the field your reaction time and so on so you won't perform well most probably for the 1st time at a fee for tournament concussion substitutes a big trial here at the club world cup in qatar it means even if its aim is used up all of its allowed replacements an additional substitute can be brought on if a player is struggling with a head injury a similar system is already used in rugby a key difference in that sport is the use of temporary replacements giving medical staff longer to assess a player before deciding if they're fit to continue. providing temporary because

a substitute allows for medical teams to take a player off in the quiet confines of a treatment room or the dressing room and assess them over a period of at least 10 minutes i have a permanent substitute what you're going to be doing with that nothing will change that initial assessment is still going to be on the pitch in the heat of battle and the clarity house so ultimately still can make that decision about whether or not to take a player off or be on a permanent basis without giving people an opportunity to make that assessment in the right environment fifa say the system being used at this tournament is on trial only and more research is needed before any permanent changes to the laws are approved and he reaches an al-jazeera doha where just a day away now from the super bowl in kansas city chiefs assistant coach brit reed has been involved in a car crash which injured 2 young children one seriously read as the son of chase head coach andy reid the accident happened post to the team's training complex in missouri and he's reported to have told police he consumes 2 to 3 drinks reid will

not coach in the super bowl as the chiefs chase their 2nd straight championship against the tampa bay buccaneers over brooklyn the nets forward kevin durant was pulled out mid game on friday because he'd been in contact with a positive case durant was left out of the starting line up against the toronto raptors was then told he was able to play while the other person underwent further testing but after the positive result was confirmed to rant was taken off in the 3rd quarter was left frustrated a to tweeting free me. there was i think a negative test there was an inconclusive turns i think you had it all up it was misleading for a moment and not why he was allowed to play it continued to test drive me and the more data and the last test was positive so like i was the final straw a little of out of the game he's going negative you know so i don't understand what the problem is. there was a case

a game should have been postponed i feel like if we talk about a contract concentration he was on all of us your guess is as good as mine i would have said hey if he's. anything for a contact raising money would there it with all of us on the court. to tell us now russia will face italy the a.t.p. cup final in melbourne on sunday dental medvedev put his country through to decider with a tense victory over germany's alex on disparate it's very who is nursing a lower back injury was broken at 55 in the deciding set medvedev ceiling victory. while the material from the dow sat out spain's semifinal tie with italy with a sore back you could only watch and sidelines us but tell you bet a teeny and roberta battista. entertaining trick shots but ultimately was the italian who sealed a 6375 when to put his country through to the final against russia.

american golfers and to shout flea holds the lead at the halfway stage of the phoenix open while the before rolled in an eagle part of the 50 he sits at 12 under par shot at steve stricker and bradley. it was a good day for one volunteer at the saudi international tournament who was at the wrong end of a drive by world number one dustin johnson lucky man was floored by the shots he's likely to have quite the bruise on his shoulder but up matt seemed ok as he was able to walk away. all right those are useful for now we'll have more for you later bowling thank you very much for that the oscar winning actor christopher plummer has died at the age of 91 he was best known for his role as captain von trapp opposite julianna joe's in the 1965 blockbuster the sound of music christian salome looks back on his 6 decades in film television and stage. christopher plummer was a classically trained actor in his native canada on broadway and on the london

stage. fragments. birth to comedy. and tragedy the world came to know him as captain von trapp in one of the higher. movies of all time the sound of music. and the ball. the. film's success caught him by surprise here are words of a sudden you're very famous. none of us really realize it would. go word and of course of course of everybody stuart so i was were disappointed that the part i was playing it was rather boring or and i tried so hard to america a mentor stream for group 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 in old age only 2 years older than me dollywood oblivion or my life. 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 survived by his wife elaine and daughter the actor amanda plummer.

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