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of their leader as the internet is shut down nationwide. keeping up the pressure farmers in india refused to back down they're demanding the government scrapped new laws they say threaten their livelihoods closure for some of iraq's minority is edis 6 years after an attack by i saw that saw thousands killed kidnapped or forced to flee their homes. a warning of a difficult on long road ahead in africa's fight against over 90 and the pandemic is a major topic as the continent's leaders begin their annual summit. and i'm lee harvey with all of your sports news england cricket captain joe root smashes a double century to put them in control of the 1st test against india to. go. come to the news hour thousands of people have made him are voicing their anger

and mass protests the 1st in 6 days since the military seize control of the government chance denouncing the arrests of elected officials rang throughout the city of yangon heavily armed police officers have blocked off the demonstrators but further organization of protests online has been halted and that's because of a near total internet blackout the military has blocked access to social networking sites like facebook instagram as well as twitter and the former leader has been under house arrest charged with illegally using and importing communication equipment or economic advisor an australian academic is the latest person to be detained zeros florence louis has more from kuala lumpur. people out on the streets of yangon monks students young and old. many are dressed in red the color of the national league for democracy party or the n.l.

game. and one november's election by a landslide a result of military has refused to record citing unsubstantiated allegations of phone the bad as read against military dictatorship. these people are calling for the release of the elected leader. and others have been detained. protests have grown from just banging pots at night in yangon. for civil disobedience movement medical stuff went on strike 1st and were joined on friday by lecturers and other government employees that are yet another for libel me out we don't want this military coup which unlawfully seize power from our elected government we don't want anyone who steals power and then forms their own government we're no longer going to work with them we want the military coup to fail america from. the threat of arrest israel astray and shawntel an economic advisor to onus on suchi 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 stitching and 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 on some suit choosing her private home not one given by the government and when mental 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 the 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 elegy m.p.'s convened a symbolic parliamentary session on thursday. wearing in ceremony via. international pressure on myanmar is growing. the un security council has called on the military to release all sons hoochie and others who are being detained the u.s. 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 and 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 quadruple. tokers the director of net blocks the group that's monitoring the online crackdown on me and maher she says the internet restrictions are tougher than ever. in the military has always been pulling the strings in some one with 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 some of the internet providers 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 and we generate a national writer 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've been forced to switch off services and the internet so beyond this we've seen really various forms of restriction maybe a full range for suite of research into this this week to the pins worked this is a method of circumventing censorship with your own restrictions in the last few days but more recently the kind of restriction that we're seeing now isn't necessary amenable to this kind of circumvention which means that people aren't able to work around these are shootings anymore so even those privileged few who were able to use those tools are now more cut off than ever which is really concerning because i spoke to a friend larry this 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 the u.s. secretary of state is urging china to join international condemnation of the military in me and mar antony bank can use this 1st call with beijing's top

diplomat to criticize beijing's human rights record blinken said that america will stand up for democratic values engine jang tibet and hong kong he warned that the us would work with allies against any chinese threat to stability in the indo-pacific region including across the taiwan straits. and the u.s. state department plans to drop its terrorist designation for yemen's food thiis president joe biden had highlighted the need to find a diplomatic solution to the war in yemen during his 1st major foreign policy speech the truth these were labeled terrorists by the trumpet ministration but humanitarian groups warned this could affect crucial aid deliveries so it's on a begum is the advocacy manager for the norwegian refugee council she explains how the terror list designation affects humanitarian work even when there are exemptions. the 1st thing to save that this designation was coming at a time when yemen face is unprecedented step of catastrophe so

battered by 6 years of war 16000000 people at risk of starvation one in 2 yemenis cope with 19 also led to the economy with getting more people lost their jobs you also basically have. food prices rising at the same time so for humanitarian organizations what we were concerned about is that even with exemptions made by the u.s. government this only provided limited protection supreme would stick it would still continue to delay humanitarian aid operations as we never gave these new legal rests 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 bags of risk averse and any uncertainty caused by about past actions regime and exemptions would have meant private shipping companies or. commercial companies would be reluctant to bring food fuel and medicines into the country so this is really a decision by the u.s. government and a sigh of relief that the yemeni people. the indian government has 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 agricultural 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 breached barricades around the city elizabeth rodham has this update from ghazi poor. where the protests continue to occupy this key highway

into delhi they have been here for more than 2 months but today we are seeing protesters blocking on the highways around the country including the stodden how to . live seen police detaining protesters in the southern city. and this is all after anyone who supports the. 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 climbed the wall just hours after promising that in the

address the nation from the. un to more head on the al jazeera news hour including bursts all former u.s. presidents have access to intelligence briefings by president joe biden says former president donald trump should be kept out of the loop. i am here in our daughter's northwest. what transpired in poor communities villages for ransom have killed hundreds in the past one year. and n.b.a. star kevin durant's his anger after being removed from a game because of coronavirus rules stories coming up a little later within the sport. but 1st african union leaders have been meeting by video conference for their annual summit so they're likely to discuss a range of shared concerns including the covert $1000.00 pandemic on the struggle to secure vaccines the outgoing chairman cyril ramaphosa says the continent has

been devastated by the virus and still faces a long and difficult road before the pandemic is defeated welcome what is following the summit from nairobi. expecting the african center for disease control and also the a used vaccine task force to report to the african union to update them on progress in this summit comes at a moment where the african continent finds itself at the bottom of a lot of the grossly on equal allocation the distribution of covert 19 vaccines around the world experts estimate that the richest countries would have vaccinated most of their populations at some point later this year and that the world's poorest countries many of which are in this continent will not vaccinate the same amount of their population till maybe 3 years from now or possibly never till the african union's task force has been trying to collectively buy vaccines on behalf

of other countries is aiming to get about 600000000 vaccines or about half the number of people living in the continent 1300000000 is the total population that pales in comparison for example to the u.k. which has one of the fastest moving vaccine programs the government there is for about 6 doses for every member of its population the african union is trying to trying to address this trying to collectively buy those vaccines some african countries have signed up to participate in the game but we'll hear more about it in the summit later today and tomorrow as well. but i'll see to refine the info for who's a senior atlantic fellow for healthy equity a george washington university he's joining us from abuja nigeria thanks so much for speaking to us on al-jazeera so like malcolm was saying the coronavirus pandemic and getting the vaccines to those who want the vaccines in the continent is a top priority right now for the african union do you expect to see any progress on this issue as a result of the summit. yes absolutely thank you for having me daryn i

think we also need to give credit to the african union to buy the prism of water. because the by the selfishness on the part of western nations who by not i've been able to pass. through his leadership the continent has at least gotten some level of commitment. from the khobar facility about $700000000.00 the as well as the africa back into the shah back in the bathroom and beyond those other body beyond those of commitment however. well we are back in about $90000000.00 doses by the end of this month of beginning of march from the combustibility and apart from those commitments there are also some all the. things that the african union has done on the present course as shoppers because last year if you can

remember 1 what conditions also said or didn't. was not protective equipment some of the commodities could be one thing in another the result of that the african union that of the african medical supply platform so help with coordinate in airports across the continent follow district on commodities and through the african medical supplies for. african countries can preorder for boston and also. look for 'd parts of the district and coach and equipment or goes back and rate the example you're talking about the level of commitment but do you expect any sort of operational constraint sir perhaps lack of preparedness by some countries when it comes to the vaccine rollout. so i'm sure we're going to have some telling you but to be honest i think african countries are much more prepared than western countries because i mean we been doing this for whole long i mean we just.

do our job last year you know it's about the polar transmission so all of the investments are going into polio eradication for instance big output african countries in the battle. to really rule out the back and when they arrive on the continent compared to in the u.s. for instance if you're going to get it right you know industry this week in a neutral about the you yourself have said that you don't anticipate countries on the continent achieve herd immunity until i believe you said late 2022 or possibly into the year 2023 which isn't in fact later than other regions in the world what are you basing that statement on. so i'm busy a bit on the on the on the commitments are being made by for or for the cook a bit back and because even the commitment from ability by the sound we get that britain is just going to mean as about 20 percent of the company and that's to be

sometime late 2022. so going forward for acquired t.v. herd immunity to 70 percent is to take off into 23 and beyond to do that and that's why i think for me as somebody who is passionate about helping with the i really don't understand why which our western nations have picked in the decisions that they have because ultimately even if you end the bus they think it will reach everybody return to shaun's as long there are people enough to come up with this that you have that risk because this is a pandemic that does not respect bottles that can cross our. borders you know because people will because they're probably one thing or the other so it's not your concern to me and i hope that. through all the platforms that the african union has for instance through the back and cannot then possibility probably africa as bought an import bank setting aside about $4000000000.00 to support but the

money factor on the continent i hope that would help cause bigger wouldn't you know this is the fear all right we'll leave it there thank you so much for speaking to us from a pleasure thank you. now south africa has allowed the use of a controversial drug to treat covered 100 patients ever match and has become popular but its unregulated use has raised concerns about its sale on the black market family similar reports from johannesburg. ciro who doesn't want to use her real name was diagnosed with covert 1000 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 smuggled into the hospital which i felt and so on traffic with. the fam thing that's going to help people and something

that people who need something that people. seen as a criminal. for you would. save your loved one you know at that point. we knew at the point of death we would do in syria is so convinced the drugs 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 dorothy 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 and covert 1000 patients while

they wait for approval. but they are concerned that regulations and delays will only fuel 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 i'm regulated use of either mix and could lead to an overdose and say there's no clear evidence the drug works be just. honest and the fact that there's been. what. 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 clothes at 19 including india and argentina south africa plans to begin

clinical trials on the effectiveness of ivermectin to treat the 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 janice berg somalia's political leaders have failed to agree on new elections just days before the end of the president's term last year they agreed to hold indirect parliamentary and presidential elections but that deal broke down after disagreements between the president and regional leaders mohamed the doe's monitoring the story from kenya he says somalia has now entered a period of political instability. the contentious issues include who should manage the election of about 17 members of parliament in the ghetto region which is the president's home or region he wants to do that himself the president of jubilant instruction in case my ahmed rather the outrightly refuse that and then

there is the deployment of troops to the ghetto region along the border with kenya the government in mogadishu says that they have deployed those forces to try and protect the border with kenya after diplomatic spat between kenya and the cutting of the prometric relations with nairobi and the president of the region is saying no that is not what the president wants is trying to use up his power in the region and wants them replaced with african union peacekeepers are missed on the president . and another issue is the composition of the electoral commission which opposition candidates including former president at least one former prime minister say that they it is tough with civil servants and members of the national security agency and they want that reconstituted again now all these leave some money in limbo on monday the president's mandate will expire and the opposition countries are saying they will not allow an extension of the president's mandate they would

not want any extension whatsoever of the president from those some rap where that meeting has collapsed is heading directly to a parliament where he's going to ask members of parliament to extend his mandate and they might do that because extending the prison mandate mystic standing there on monday to. police in chad have fired tear gas as hundreds of people protested against president idriss deby his nomination for a 6th term in office he's been officially named his governing party's candidate for april's alexion has been in power for more than 30 years opposition parties accuse him of trying to introduce a monarchy they say it's time for debbie to step aside and are putting forward a unity candidate nicholas because 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 protesters are up in different neighborhood 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 even while 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 has the headquarters of the block an operation for its held region based in the capital of chad danger being twice though inside the country to protect president debbie from attempts to overthrow him now during this period of over 30 years it has to be has the mouse enormous amount of wealth he's placed some members of his family in key positions

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. tunis ins are holding a mass demonstration marking the anniversary of the death of a prominent left wing activists the rally is taking place at the place where 8 years ago politicians should be laid was killed thousands have gathered in tunis they're calling for the truth about political assassinations to be revealed and rejecting restrictions on freedoms i'm condemning the spread of hate speech and violence. coming up on the news hour on al-jazeera right after the break how the current a virus pandemic is causing a sharp increase in the number of italians facing economic hardship. i'm the

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. but. how if the weather looks pretty unsettled across a good part of the middle east over the next couple of days lots of wet weather now pushing through the levant seizing across iraq into iran some heavy rain there over the mountains or really turns to snow as well and that cloud in right not too far from us here in casa sunday is the warmer day 26 celsius for the winds coming in from over a southerly direction but as this system makes its way further eastwards the winds will switch from will have a northerly push now winds temperatures at around 22 celsius could catch

a spot or 2 of rain not too much to speak of at least here on the other side of the gulf with that what's the weather will fizzle out as a pushes across iran want to see showers around the southern end of the red sea so yemen could catch a shower at sea just around the gulf of aden but not too much wet in the way of wetter weather around the horn of africa somalia generally is going to stay dry and father be some showers still unusually wet facade into parts of tanzania west or whether they're just coming across just around the rif ali some heavy showers too right through the southern parts of democratic republic of congo eastern areas of angola seeing some heavy rain we'll see some wet weather for a time also affecting a good part of botswana should gradually turn a little brighter for south africa. but . since its inception in. 961 the kuwait fund has been supporting people's livelihoods in over 100 countries by funding projects

in an array of sectors. ranging from infrastructure to health and education. these initiatives ultimately help to eradicate poverty. and promote sustainable development. as a weapon of war leaves the very deepest skull those. scars so rule that the victims men and women can barely talk about it. they are the only witnesses who can help bring about justice al-jazeera fall as human rights campaigners in libya investigating right since the 2011 revolution. libya unspeakable crime on al-jazeera.

following on the top stories al-jazeera is our 1st major street protests have taken place in myanmar 6 days after the military seized control of the government thousands rallied in the largest city yang on against the coup in the crackdown that followed. farmers in india ramping up their protest against agricultural reforms by blocking roads across the country they say the government is using her press of measures to clamp down on their protests. over $100.00 is edis killed by isis fighters and 2014 have been laid to rest in a funeral service in northwest iraq very remains were found in mass graves last year and identified through d.n.a. testing the religious minority was targeted by eisel because of their faith the

u.n. estimates at least 5000 years these were murdered and 7000 women and girls abducted and in slaves where you see these are one of iraq's largest religious minorities around 400000 lived in northern iraq before i saw a law and its violent attack against them in sin joran 2014 the un has called it a genocide the armed group targeted them because of their religious sect which is a mix of several ancient middle eastern religions hundreds of thousands are still displaced and of the estimated $7000.00 women and girls sold into slavery or forced marriage $3000.00 remain missing that speak to william ward the who is the founder of how mugabe that's a human rights organization that works to improve minority rights in iraq is joining us from baghdad thanks so much for joining us on al-jazeera you've recently been to a camp where you. are living because they continue to be displaced today tell us

what the situation is like for them and what you saw. it's thank you very much so there is about more than 250000 years e.d.'s in the camps in the hong about sr succeeds comes in in g. and also the situation in sydney. is not very well secured people they skip 2 or 13 months ago if it was good to flex off people return to the city john but because of the conflict regional conflict and internal conflict they are scared to. even the so i think of the government is too close. to will try to tear into their homeland but still the situation you know in specially is in john. is very.

quick to call on people late there is no trust of the security situation as an angel as we are encouraging people and we have. to help them quarter to 10 me but the still there is people they don't like to attend because. because of the feel of the situation are now. and i saw a sleaze napthine imminent threat to they is edis nowadays what is their biggest concern. as especially. since. the infrastructure is not well done it nees many things to be there and also that the us is sold is these they don't have all of the 90 bars this is one of they can say. to. 2 sisters and to

that of the conciliation between years these and that villages are not villages in the night but the. days e this especially but beyond all these religious alone being seen john are all the salt you know that. both the houses there is many hundreds of houses destroyed completely the people when they come back they cannot see their houses where they could shoot again they cannot stay. in there again in the camps in science in general also with the health situation and could do patients situation as little as all we have a nation there is there is no here we have a nation for that hospitals clinical on even the schools and what about. this some of the the the atrocities that were committed by i saw are recognized by

the international community as crimes against humanity as well as war crimes how can justice be given to the us the community. they need they need they need. compensation indeed and also they have his unit that you need to at it's where king for that that held the globalization with. n.g.o.s and ikea n.g.o.s as little nothing on the ground happened but that is a process that is closest to compensate the all of those you see these legally and also maybe by other. tools. especially how to how to vote on compensate and also there was no new law to protect those sort of life out. of life but this is

also one of the kind of compensation for their rights ok william i want to thank you so much for speaking to us from baghdad thank you very much. president joe biden as against his predecessor donald trump receiving intelligence briefings speaking in an interview on american network c.b.s. biden said the trump simply can't be trusted to keep the information confidential. should former president trump still receive intelligence briefings. i think not. why not. because of his rabid behavior unrelated to the insurrection i mean you've called him an axis tensional prat you've called him dangerous you called him back last. you know i have i believe in what your worst fear if he continues to get these intelligence briefings. i'd rather not

speculate out loud i just think of thirds no need for him to have the intelligence fusion what value is giving him an intel was appreciated what impact does he have at all other than the fact he might slip and say something let's bring in high to joe castor she's joining us from washington d.c. so heidi just 1st talk us through the role of these briefings. these briefings are a courtesy that's extended from the new president to the old and it's something that's happened for every former living us president in the modern era they serve 2 purposes one is to fulfill this matter of convention as a courtesy and the 2nd is to have the former president informed in case they are one day called upon for advice from the current sitting president now the concern about bob about trump getting these continued intelligence briefings they can be summed up not only by what biden just said but also in an op ed written by one of

trump's former intelligence prefers that was published in the washington post in january and in it she lists to make concerns that make trump different than his predecessors one being that he has a stated agenda to remain as part of american politics possibly running another time and she is concerned that he could use or twist this intelligence to meet his agenda what she has been accused of doing while in the white house and then the 2nd difference between shrub and his of the other former u.s. presidents is that he has business holdings and investors and lenders who are foreigners and the concern there is that he is particularly vulnerable to what this former intelligence officer says are bad actors with ill intent because of his conflicts and interests so how easy are they to cancel. well they're pretty easy because the former presidents have to make

a request to the current president for these briefings to occur there is no indication actually that trump has made this request in fact there's been reporting that even in the oval office his attention often wander during these briefings and that he didn't didn't enjoy them very much. it is up to biden himself unilaterally if he wants to cancel these briefings he didn't go as far as to say that specifically in the interview so it certainly appears to be moving in that direction which again would be the 1st time in the modern era that these briefings are canceled to a former president and there's nothing that trump could really do about it all right it's heidi thank you so much for that update from washington hundreds of migrants and refugees in colombia are resuming their journey to the united states after being stranded for weeks because of a pandemic but to get to the u.s. border they will 1st have to cross one of the most dangerous jungles in the world

laura berman molly reports stranded on this beach for weeks in makeshift. 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 is evident. the migration authority says the group is mostly made up of patients but includes cuba and africa they're all looking to make a better life for themselves in the u.s. . who trip would take them across the caribbean go straight to caprica from there the trip becomes in the sea both dangerous. 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 almost 100 kilometers connecting colombia and panama 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 him doing last about it 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. colombia deported about 3800 people mostly from haiti local officials say there must be a better solution. we want. to tease 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 cookie but in the world in general these people say they're scared of what lies ahead and they're risking their lives but having already fled poverty conflict or persecution many seedless who choice but to push on. al-jazeera. china as drug regulator has given conditional approval to a 2nd locally made covered 1000 vaccine for use by the general public the current of act job has been used in china's vaccination program for people in high risk groups since july its effectiveness in clinical trials around the world varies from between 50 to 91 percent since their beijing based company behind the vaccine expects to be able to produce more than a 1000000000 doses a year. charities in rome have seen a 3 fold increase in the number of italians seeking food handouts because of the coronavirus most of those in need have lost their jobs or gone bankrupt in the last

year stephanie decker reports in 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 sonal more. there are many impoverished many who had work a family home living in normal conditions you know lived on tourism small businesses that went bankrupt so mound astri's 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. 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 meant taining 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 starting with a community where 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 heard that money like days no now i really understand the marginalised people or 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 is terrible. is very difficult. for

a man over my age. before i ask him how could 1000 has affected his life. before in this quarter we would be able going site somewhere no nothing no work to stay i mean they can't have us in the day we live in the modern go to 70 of it where 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. attacks by armed groups northwest nigeria have worsened an 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 rural communities i did research reports from

sokoto where farmers are struggling to rebuilt. 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 the men arrived and left it in ruins we came into the farm after they have a strong. cottage almost all the products that we have clues it be i mean most of the she gains everything including the machines and even seats or you know receipts that we kept for fire that if she would wear taken away by them. after that he says they torched the farm reducing the orchard and the beast. he may have lost his farm but not the passion and definitely something he starting a small 110 kilometers away from the relative safety of the city.

but there are thousands of others here in sokoto state who can either go back to their farms no have the capital to start a new official say big 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. economists 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 as are also obvious although to take care of themselves and also to bail some of their family members who are been kidnapped by this 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 wise we know all of the situation in the country in particular in the north and is sort of a state this is a very limited and there are competing demands there suddenly you have security which is a question of funding. so it drains the little resources that you have that ordinarily should deploy for development they dress in farming 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 the check on boundaries with. experts warned that unless they're stopped the entire region risks descending into onic how many agrees. to. still ahead on al-jazeera a coach in the upcoming super bowl is under investigation after a car accident we'll have details coming up in just a moment. the philippine this biting to restore faith in dogs saying. that the body can we deny any wrongdoing. why when a student to guides on al-jazeera. the only u.s. president to be impeached twice acquitted the 1st time but will donald trump make

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following on top of the sports news here is leo thank you daryn let's start with some more cricket in england are in control of the 1st test against india and should i they've reached 555 for 8 at the close of play on day 2 captain joe root resumed on 128 and reached a double century by hitting a 6 route as plain in his one huh. test and it's the 3rd match in a row that he's hit a $150.00 or more he was eventually out for to a team having spent 9 hours at the crease ben stokes scored $82.00 and says the team are in on their skipper. course prizing run down with. the suits to bring up a double. yeah he's in phenomenal for. just making things look very very easy and the way they play spins well dominate spin. is incredible to watch not to well i don't think is happening but it's been a. place been in the way that he does need to stop he's got an answer i'm not sure

and for everything us though and i've been. just a delight to watch him go. well pakistan are on top again south africa in their 2nd test and roll pindi after the 3rd day of play the tourist resumed play on 106 for 4 house and ali helped himself to 5 wickets as south africa were all out for just 201 that gave pakistan a lead of $71.00 and even though the south africans bowled quite well to try and restrict the hosts the pakistanis were 12946200 runs ahead at stumps. european champions barren munich have arrived here in qatar ahead of the club world cup on the back of yet another victory in the german bundesliga on a snowy night in berlin there was a rare missed penalty from their goal scoring machine robert lewandowski against heard that from when the kings the commons and deflected shot secured by iran's 5th

league win in a row to put them 10 points clear will have significantly warmer conditions here in qatar to play the club world cup semifinal against africa's champions. the club world cup is testing a new approach to protect players from getting concussions now teams will actually be allowed to make an additional substitution if a player has a head injury and he richardson has that story from joe. 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 cats are spitz our 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 wolves play around him with a fractured skull but arsenal started luis played on for a further 40 minutes the club insist he did pass and 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 aspect of 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 are being trolled 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 here in at least 10 minutes i have a poem to substitute what you're going to be doing with that nothing would change that initial assessment is still going to be on the pitch in the heat of battle and the glare who knows so intimately still can make that decision about whether or not to take a player all obeyed on a permanent basis without giving people an opportunity to make that assessment in the right environment. 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 go home. well the super bowl is just one day away but a kansas city chiefs assistant coach is now under investigation after being involved in a car accident that injured 2 children britt reed is the son of the chiefs head coach andy reid the accident happened close to the team's training complex in

missouri and he's reported to have told police that he had consumed quote 2 to 3 drinks read well now not coach in the super bowl as the chiefs chase their 2nd straight championship title against the tampa bay buccaneers over in brooklyn nets forward kevin durant's was pulled out mid game on friday because he was exposed to covert 19 durant was left out of the starting line up against the trotter raptors but was then told he was safe to play but by the 3rd quarter he was taken out again and moved into quarantine after the game he simply tweeted free me. there was i think negative test there was an inconclusive terms i think you had it all up it was misleading from already and that's why he was allowed to play it continued to terms johnny and the more down to the last test was positive so like i was the final straw that a lot of the game may have been 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 the post your guess is as good as mine i would have said hey if he's. babysitting for contact crazy well he would have it with all of us on the court world number one to us and johnson is 18 holes away from victory at the saudi international after taking the lead after the 3rd round johnson birdied the last 2 holes on saturday to shoot a 4 under par 66 the american is 2 shots ahead on 13 under overall he won this tournament in 2019 and is trying to do it again on sunday. it's a great shot to tennis and russia will face italy and the a.t.p. cup final in melbourne on sunday to neil medvedev put his country through to the decider with a tense victory over germany's alexander's fare of vera of who is nursing a lower back injury was broken at 55 in the deciding set with the debt ceiling victory. already that's it for me had you back over to drain earlier thank you so

much we will see you later on i believe thanks so much and thanks for watching the news hour on al-jazeera we're back in just a moment on the other side of the break we'll have more news coming for you and all the latest headlines of the day see in a minute but. it's america's worst kept secrets cracked open in the time of the pandemic exposed in the time of trump through the turmoil of 2020 the big picture traces a century of racial injustice to reveal how philanthropy politics and economics

preserve structural inequality keep the white a supreme and black in its place the race for america part one on i just. this underwater treasure is a risk of disappearing juice a coral bleaching caused by rising temperatures. great. strain the eric eric egypt's. tourism industry based this we lose it instantly if we have another bleaching event of these matters. if this continues they just will be the opportunity for the girls to recover but. scientists of calling for strong climate policy from the government to reduce emissions without this situation are in the get worse. it's one of the most recognized sites around the world saying for support from far and wide. but for the

families back home it's more than just a football club and they want to polish it should be left for. politics and. the passion and the politics of liverpool f.c. the defiance giant. part of the fans who make football series on al-jazeera. for the 1st time since monday's crew in myanmar large numbers of protesters take to the streets. are watching al-jazeera life from a headquarters and. also coming up a warning of

a difficult a long road ahead in africa's fight against cover 19 pandemic is a major topic as the cause.