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a new hurdle astra zeneca says its vaccine is showing limited effects against the south african variant of coronavirus and african leaders begin the 2nd day of their virtual summit the official theme is our culture and heritage but most of the attention is on the pandemic i'm joining us now with sports on super bowl sunday the kansas city chiefs have touched down in tampa chasing their 2nd straight title but there are concerns the game may cause a spike in 1000 cases. to. thank you for joining us that would begin with breaking news this news hour indian officials fear up to 150 people are dead after part of an himalayan geisha collapse . sent a torrent of water rushing down a river where a hydroelectric power station and several villages are positioned several

communities have been put on high alert for flooding the incident happened in the far northern region of india or to recount stage you can see it's a very mountainous area in this particular part it's nearly 2 kilometers above sea level one of the rivers affected the ganga river which supports a major hydroelectric dam project upstream there is a smaller dam but further down is a much larger top of on vishnu god power plant there also multiple villages along the path of the river and his prime minister narendra modi has tweeted say he is closely monitoring the situation in order a cond and that the nation stands with everyone in the states and are praying for everyone's safety while he says he's been in close contact with the disaster response forces who are coordinating relief operations let's bring in our india correspondent elizabeth ronna who joins us on the line liz i know you're on your

way to the disaster area tell us about the latest you're hearing on the situation for us there. fall is the latest we're hearing is that a glacial burst in the state of cons chumley district has triggered this avalanche and massive flooding along the i like nanda and the legal angles as this happened on saturday morning it's called the emergency evacuation of thousands of people from the surrounding areas it's damaged holland and the nearby it is she going up and. we're also hearing from local officials actually from the window to better and border collies force hundreds of who have been deployed to the area to help with the rescue operations that 3 bodies have been recovered so far and a local official has told indian media that a 100 to 160 people may have been killed in the flash flood. the border patrol official has also told indian media that they fear that they will be casualties because some water bodies flooded and destroyed many homes on the riverbank we can

see pictures of this massive flood of water of debris goes into the building that was never that i kind of disaster response force have also said that more than 150 laborers working at that issue got the power plant which would find flaws the missing representative of the power plant told us off the fault that they weren't able to contact those people at the project's side there are also a number of ongoing wrote road and rail projects in the area and that's all she's really worried about the safety of the label is working on those projects and the pictures that we're seeing right now i acquired shocking tell us a bit more about the region the area where this happened i understand that it's a region that's prone to heavy flooding how difficult will it be for rescue crews to reach these affected area and rescue the people who might be choppy i mean it is an incredibly mountainous region but because it's one that used to

flooding at least disaster response is well equipped to access. those areas if they can just leave the theater i would say that the district administration police department disaster management hundreds of personnel have been deployed already. as well as the state and police for the police we have national staff to respond told teams are being rushed from the capital there at the. teams a force helicopters and in the lurch has also been sounded for all of the downstream the 6 again because of the geography of the flood making its way downstream including to busy cities like a suitcase and hundreds or have people there have all been warned against physically that one of the world's largest gathering in fact a hindu festival called the cool it's been taking place in what is well over the last few weeks so authorities are dealing with a lot more people and how to draw than they would normally be and that the people from all over india travel there to date and the ganges river and so this is

something that apologies will have to. really keep a close eye on me very worrying at least thank you very much for that update of course we'll bring you the very latest on this breaking news story from northern india as and more information becomes available meanwhile a magnitude 6.3 earthquake has struck the southern philippines civil defense officials in the deval del sol region report is strong trem is but they have been no immediate reports of casualties or damage to buildings. in other world news tens of thousands of people are defying police orders and rallying in myanmar's largest city as anger grows over a military coup rounds in young going are risking a less calling for deposed leader entente switchy to be freed she's been charged with violating import export laws such as internet access was quassia restored according to the monitor net blogs yangon has spread to multiple cities in the 6 days since the takeover took place they began in the city of mandalay on thursday

before spreading to die we on friday on saturday they merged in the country's largest city of young gone with 2 more cities joining on sunday florence we is following developments in myanmar for us from malaysia's capital kuala lumpur floor and so more protests more defiance tell us 1st about what's been happening this sunday. well it's the 2nd successive day of street demonstrations in yangon and we're seeing an even bigger crowd than on sundays in the protests have sprung up in different parts of the city in downtown gang gone in the small and narrow streets and even people who want taking part in the protests off at their support to show their support by cheering by clapping hands people honk their cars now we're also hearing reports that gunshots were heard in the town of mia wadi which is near the thai border reports say that. armed police in uniform charged at

a group of protesters and gunshots were fired now it's not immediately clear if there are any injuries but so far the protests in yangon have been allowed to go on peacefully even though there has been very heavy police presence it has been quite difficult getting information out of myanmar because there was a near total internet shutdown that started on saturday afternoon it's only been partially restored just a couple of hours ago as you say so far the protests have remained largely peaceful but we know of course that the military nan ma is a history of violently cracking down on protests but the people appear to be defiant this time around why do you think this is. absolutely now we've heard reports say that the demonstrators have talked about how this damage coming out to demonstrate is more than just for themselves the doing it for future generations now myanmar was under military rule from 962 to 2011 so

that's nearly 50 years and during that time the economy was crippled the education system the health care system was left in shambles you know people have been saying that they don't want to return to those times that has the myanmar military had in the past put down uprisings very brutally very violent back in 1988 and again in 2007 busting really large protests these are the largest protests since the last ones in 2007 now another reason i think why people are so angry this time is because they've had about 10 years of a slow transition to democracy and in the last november elections people came out to vote overwhelmingly for own son sushi's party the national league for democracy i mean it won about 80 percent of elected seats so people are extremely angry that the vote has been taken away and that's why i think this fight the fear that history will repeat itself despite the fear of

a violent crackdown by the military again they want to make their voices heard they want their vote to be restored to them thank you very much for that florence 3 live there from kuala lumpur with the latest on the situation in myanmar. the corona virus pandemic now and astra zeneca says it's working to adapt its goal $1000.00 vaccine against a very in 1st and then to fight in south africa after a trial showed it might be less effective the study shows a vaccine has significantly reduced efficacy against a mutation according to a report in the financial times the trial is small and has not been peer reviewed the south african variant is among a number of mutations causing concern because of their higher rates of spread and potential to resist vaccines dr. sun jaya semenya is an associate professor of infectious diseases at the australian national university says other vaccines have also shown reduce impact on variants so it is very sparse information at the moment

for example they didn't actually give a figure of vaccine africa say we also know that it's very young people so the impacts on severe disease unlikely to be known because the fear is is very unlikely in young people we know from the other vaccines that are around but do in our buys are know that x. johnson and johnson that they also have shown refused impact against the south african strain although they are effective against the south african strain so this would be consistent with what we have seen with those other vaccines you always knew that viruses mutate that happens all the time but when we talk about a new strain we're talking about communication that affects the way the virus behaves in humans and really we thought that a corona virus seems to be a tape quite slowly maybe 5 times slower than influenza so in a sense that we were seeing strains at this point of the outbreak was kind of a surprise and i suspect it just reflects the fact that we've seen so many cases

worldwide of kovac and it's allowed the virus to replicate replicate hundreds of millions of times and we've seen the strains of march. israel has started lifting its strictest coronavirus lockdown restrictions some businesses are able to reopen including takeaway food services and headdress says the month long lockdown was the 3rd time the country has shut shops and kept people home for an extended period and ban on air travel remains in place fossett has more from western mostly what we're seeing as all 7 am on sunday is an ability to travel outside of one kilometer radius from one's home go to other people's homes go to bed and breakfasts as a nuclear family still no word yet on how they will reopen the education system but some of the most restrictive parts of the lockdown are being eased and as you say a lot of it does depend on whether they can maintain at least the

within bounds the effects on the hospital admissions and severe cases stemming from a more relaxed approach because of the vaccines certainly they're going out of this lockdown at a far higher rate of infection far higher positivity rate than the previous 2 in fact the positivity rate according to the wine that you cite has risen during this lockdown so there's certainly no real indorsement in terms of the infection rate coming down the relaxing the measures but there is at least the opportunity because of a vaccination program to try to do so and so israel is not just a test bed in terms of the sort of medical efficacy and effect of this is of this vaccine which obviously pfizer is using it for but also it's a bit of a test bed to see even at this relatively early stage in israel is far more advanced than other countries in terms of its vaccination program whether there will be enough of an effect to allow the restrictions to be relaxed even at

a high rate of infection. are lots more ahead on the sound is here news hour including a potential path to peace libya's military factions welcome a show of unity from the country's political rivals the u.s. announces a new immigration policy that said dramatic break from the trump administrations and in sports with joe manchester united are denied by late goal in the race for the for merely title. let's return to our top story this hour on the breaking news out of india where 250 people are feared dead in the northern water a can state after a himalayan glaciers partially broke up causing flooding joining us now is a she she die reddy who is the former vice chairman of india's national disaster management authorities via skype from hyderabad thank you very much sir for speaking to us tell us 1st what you think could have set off this i mean were there

any prior warnings that part of this glacier was going to break apart well i doubt it's not a clue look at this point of time because this is winter in india and this is a time when you know the temperatures. keeps or accumulating and most people all are. though if you mean for reform has caused this. must have been some kind of foreclosure goes to sometime shortly. local authorities and any even national authorities have said that it's a glacier that broke broke apart indeed this is a region that's prone to flooding but the event that triggered this massive disaster appears to have been the glacial. well i talked to i talked with comics boots i talked to people who were that it hit me oh well you know the b.

. own department and. you know raincoats i mean it will cost to the creature and this is certainly not the time manipulation really because we can understand if it is you know it will last i'm going to talk i'm open to it even mean senate bill a sure it was sort of post at the time but not all of what i believe. is unlikely i mean that is my understanding and this is the information that i am ok some of the experts that i. so the videos that are being shared on social media as certainly very scary and shocking and i understand there's a hydropower projects near one of the affected drivers a small a dam as well just how bad do you think this could could be right now i mean that the picture is still unclear are you expecting the number of casualties to go up. i don't mean it didn't mean that in

a situation like this i meant oh all along we do very well on you do sykes people on air and you know certain rights so it was a little bit well and you'd be let go you know a lot like situation and be if you are on the idol project. even when it is certainly the level it's really been much more than anyone would have anticipated and it's in your body quite a surprise people who are they don't shoot for or want to be the aggregations you know the ip project. really well certainly what i mean that you've got the effect it didn't carry piece. who i didn't get a lot of people well i'm on are you know the authorities that they were to make. an assessment fire you know how it actually and just how difficult it would be for the authorities for the rescue close to reach these areas tell us a bit more about this region way it happened it's

a very mountainous region i understand. yes it's among the most recent i don't know you know i foster and the experience during the the. big. 13 was to be the flight and the carrying piece. that difficult and it's going well it is going to work for me you are told so it's going to be it's not going to be very easy but i think the government will be a natural disaster response force and the other local. i don't agree forces are working together the. people the forces into the nearest location and and. i hope they'll be able to. get to but you know all along the route it may not be easy to. reach people out right

immediately thank you so much for talking to us and sharing your experience with that. in the past thank you especially that reddy former vice chairman of the national disaster management authority in hyderabad there. at the african union summit 9 african leaders are meeting for the 2nd day in the final day in fact of their virtual. pandemic is dominating the agenda mass vaccinations have begun in other parts of the world has been slow on the african continent leaders are also discussing political and humanitarian issues including border disputes send displaced people malcolm webb is in nairobi monitoring what's happening in forests marcum so a lot of attention on the coronavirus crisis at this summit just how bad the situation across the continent and what steps can we expect the organization to take. most african countries appear to have more lightly than other parts of the world in particular europe us countries in

asia some in south america this is in a context where many countries in this continent have a lot less testing some cases no testing it's all a lot less health care generally southern africa according to the available data appears to be worth it south africa which has some of the best health care and some of the most extensive testing in the countries currently suffering a 2nd wave and is also the origin of a new variant which is proving more deadly and turns out that some of the available vaccines may be less effective against that variant as well other countries such as burundi and tanzania have very little or no official response at all of the situation there in terms of its spread in this impact is largely on known but one thing that darted li has been devastating for many millions of people across the continent is the economic fallout caused by restrictions border closures and the global economic downturn that's been caused by the pandemic lots of people in the

informal sector as well as formal sectors of lost work lost incomes things to do with resource extraction tourism and so on those sectors have been hit really hard and the certainly not much that the african union can do about that until the global economy recovers and of course is the the question of vaccines and when african countries will be able to roll out their see what it what is the african union doing to secure enough vaccines for the continent's population. this summit comes at a time when the african continent continent finds itself at the bottom of the ladder of grossly on the vaccine distribution across the world with the richest countries snapping up multiple doses for each member of their population. in many african countries or most of the no vaccinations it's all so far the african union has tried to to assist this by setting up a task force is meant to buy vaccines think about 680000000 doses and 16 of the

55 member countries have signed up to participate in this scene which in this scheme which some health care activists across described as barely a drop in the ocean now the world's richest countries expect most of their populations vaccinated by some point later this year experts estimate that by the middle of this year maybe 3 percent of people enough there will have been vaccinated that basically just frontline health care workers and a few other people and they estimate that it could take up to 3 years or in many cases never at all for vaccines to actually reach the world's poorest countries malcolm thank you for that malcolm when we live in nairobi. libya's military factions have welcomed the decision to form an interim government that could help reunite the country it comes a day after the rival administrations in the east and west agreed on who will run the country until new elections in december has more from tripoli. libya's rival military committees have been meeting in the city of sorts for the last 3

days the meetings facilitated by the u.n. have played a critical role in the success of this week's talks in switzerland a nationwide ceasefire was agreed last october in geneva which stipulated that all foreign fighters should leave the country within 3 months but the fighters have failed to withdraw by the january 24th deadline and the deal also called for the main roads between eastern and western libya to reopen a member of the joint military committee says that will happen once they remove land mines from the area. we agreed on it being the road between east and west i mean agreed to start the process of clearing mind through the specialist teams will start their work confetti the 10th and on february 25th the u.n. security council has requested the secretary general to establish and deploy a team to libya to monitor the cease fire essential that all foreign fighters and mercenaries move 1st to tripoli and benghazi and then leave the country according

to the new schedule that was the find and it is essential that everybody cooperate with the new us oddities to make peace happen in libya according to the u.n. support mission there are more than 20000 foreign fighters in libya with an estimated 2000 russian mercenaries moscow was one of warlord fully 4 have to his biggest supporters in his 14 month failed military campaign to take control of the capital tripoli the u.s. africa command has said russia flew 4th generation jet fighters into libya with neither have to use forces nor private military companies having the ability to arm operate and sustain the jets without states the port the jets are believed to be based in the air base in central libya really sad that more than. great to send a letter to the security council demanding that countries that have mercenaries and

forces on the ground must be removed immediately on friday libya's rival factions agreed to form a new transitional government that will lead the country until elections in december libya's new unified government has received international praise and support but the road ahead is filled with many challenges forcing foreign fighters out of the country will perhaps be the most daunting task but without doing that it could be difficult to hold a nationwide election come december now traina al-jazeera tripoli. al jazeera journalist mahmud hussein has been released after more than 4 years in prison in egypt he was arrested in $26.00 scene one visiting relatives in cairo but was never formally charged with a crime or put on trial by bronco perhaps more. home at last and the joyful welcome for mahmoud hussein after years in prison. multiple organizations campaigned for his release and say could open the door for other

journalists wrongly held in egypt but news release can be a step too. loosening of the repression in egypt there are dozens more journalists in egypt in jail there has been a mass crackdown closing of. sharon. i think to really did help but we hope it will be a stepping stone. mahmoud was detained in december 26th seen after traveling him to cairo from his base and to her he was accused of incitement broadcasting false news and receiving foreign funds to defame state institutions allegations he and al jazeera have repeatedly rejected al-jazeera media networks acting director general welcome to mummies truly after a vigorous campaign for his freedom throughout his detention a statement said while he was incarcerated mahmud had become

a symbol of press freedom across the globe on the day of his release al-jazeera course for freedom of all journalists who were unjustly imprisoned all around the world while being held at the tora maximum security jail in cairo my mood was kept in solitary confinement for long periods and did not receive proper treatment when he broke his arm. i mean not to the family and friends there are other words that won't be easy to hear. mom it's father died just over a year ago before witnessing his son's release. and still ahead on the news hour a closed chapter on academic freedom why teachers and students in the philippines say the cancellation of a decades old agreement could put students at risk anti-government protests like this have become a regular occurrence in haiti will attempt why they can be about to ask an $8.10

and says well number one and 1st off the a 2021 on the eve of the australian open that's coming up in sports to stay with us . saturday was an orange day for many places in central southern your orange because it's full of sour and dust which fell on the slopes these last 1st few white ski slopes in the pyrenees ness sand fell on what should be a white surface and it made its way up to the alpine results as well or brought out was quite a good blow out throughout coach in this here which is a developing center of low pressure winter and once that gets up against the real cold still existing in northern europe you get a lot of snow is always where you get the temperature contrast and that is quite a contrast daytime highs of minus 30 in nice and minus 8 to warsaw significantly

cold and the contrast zagreb 13 says a big difference here and with that east of the screaming when it's gnostic conditions in the low countries and to be honest on the eastern side of england and scotland as well so also significant snows probably going to be across northern poland and maybe belarus places like london a couple of days or. the weather was snow falling and even when the snow starts folding 72 degrees in the breeze now south of all this things are rather quiet and wall of the sun palermo's at 20 and there is wind and rain running across spain portugal and maybe the far north of africa. oman has a rich history but also plays an important diplomatic role in the gulf region today al-jazeera world discovers its empire stretched from the arabian peninsula to east africa built on great sea power. the problem existed in the office of piracy.

tribes wars rebellion empire and colonize ation. oman history power and influence on al-jazeera when the news breaks the next few days our personal security forces have been deployed heavy in hot water like this one when people need to be. demands have to be fulfilled by the government and then if all the families leave too but if other farmers stay out of state al-jazeera has teams on the ground this is the insurrection that president trump is accused of killing to bring my own room wound documentaries and lightnings. the e.u. .

you're watching the news hour on al-jazeera with me for a reminder of our main stories up to 150 people are feared dead in india after part of the himalayan glaciers collapse it sent a torrent to water rushing down 2 rivers into trucks state evacuations are underway and the army has been deployed to help. internet access has been partially restored in myanmar thousands of people are risking arrest to attend protests against the military coup and subsequent crackdown for a 2nd day and astra zeneca says it's working to adopt its covert 1000 vaccine against ovarian 1st identified in south africa a new study shows its efficacy could be significantly reduced by the mutation it's based on a small trial. by the united states has ended a controversial asylum agreement with several latin american countries the deal was

made by the trumpet ministration to curb the number of migrants able to apply for asylum it meant migrants arriving in the us were often sent back to central america to apply for refugee status there joe biden's newly appointed secretary of state anthony blinken says we've notified the government of al salvador guatemala and honduras that the united states is taking this action as efforts so as cooperative mutually respectful approach to managing my gratian but blinken goes on to say to be clear these actions do not mean that the u.s. border is open. to details from washington. this is more of a photo op or a political win that the trump ministration had used to tout its forceful policies against the asylum seekers but really when this was implemented it made not much sense to begin with because in essence it's taking asylum seekers from one of these central american countries and is shuffling them back and forth with to the other

countries involved after they've been rejected after seeking asylum at the u.s. border but what made little sense in that matter was that none of these countries are really safer than the other which is why these policies were criticized by humanitarians as deliberately putting vulnerable people back in danger by then ending these agreements now really changes nothing on the ground because there's still no decision unbutton his ministry has part of what to do with the sounds of asylum seekers who are waiting at the southern border who are in mexico as you'll recall biden has pledged to undo all of trump's conservative border policies but there still has been no decision about how to resolve them and what is the other option but what is assured is that there are thousands of migrants who are

now journeying north and are now at the u.s. border and they're growing by the day and this is putting an immense strain on the border and pressing for quick solution from the biden ministration as even in the 1st few days of his time in office already a new border crisis is there confronting him. in a major reform of cuba's state's dominated economy the government says it will allow private businesses to operate in most industries in the past small businesses can only participate in 127 and sanctioned activities and that's now been expanded to 2 with 2 more than 2000 the companies caribbean island is trying to recover from an economic slump brought on by tough u.s. sanctions and a pandemic philip brenner is a professor at the american university in washington d.c. says economic reforms have been e is in the making 10 years ago when they designated a list of private enterprises but those who are were limited to things like

being a shoemaker well being repairing bicycles and restaurants now obviously opens it up to a more professional children's and the significance is twofold one it expands the possibilities for small businesses private entrepreneurs currently it is about 15 percent of the population who work for non state and the prices and this could expand that much for 3040 percent of the ocean which changes everything a bit much less reliance on the state the 2nd is that the state needs to reduce its . employment because it's running out of money they've now changed their economic system so that was going to be a single currency and that's going to result in raising the. wages of state employees and the state can't afford that and so this is a way of helping people we have the state local and state private jobs for

a much broader range of people especially rationals wires architects people who provides services to business. the killing of a street performer in chile has triggered more protests against police violence a 27 year old guy was shot dead in a southern town on friday after officers say he was resisting a routine identity check emily soon reports. anger in the chilean capital over the police shooting of a young street performer police used water cannon as hundreds took to the streets in santiago to the bank pots and charge that officers the protesters wanted to show solidarity with 27 year old francisco martinez romero who was shot dead by police on friday officers say they opened fire because the juggler refused to cooperate in a routine search the government held an emergency meeting well

a judge has ordered an investigation into the shooting with element but we always regret that an operation of these characteristics result in the death of a person as a government we want to guarantee that all measures will be taken to ensure the justice system and the prosecutor's office can investigate exactly what happened in the fall for justice came after demonstrators that several public buildings on fire in the normally sleepy town of. residence a police brutality must come to an end you know gregory fell in love with the bomb i believe that the protocols and the actions of the police must be reviewed yes it's not the 1st time or the 2nd order 3rd time before you begin to be fearful we must have justice because something like this cannot go unpunished it cannot be always wash their hands saying it was in self-defense no things cannot stay this way it cannot. mass anti-government protests since 29 team have put chile's police force under intense scrutiny with local and international watchdogs alleging

excessive use of force and human rights violations. it's always been like this in the last couple of decades because the police institution has never really been reforms there's a lot of human rights violations a lot of repression. news going on in the shanty towns near the capital in. the poor neighborhoods which we never hear of well those living and mourn the death of the young street performer but many are hopeful it will bring what they say is the much needed police accountability sue al jazeera. haiti's constitution says a new president's term begins on february 7th everyone agrees on that but not on which year presence of an envoy says he still has another year in office but as far as the opposition is concerned his time is up on sunday that a symbol reports on the political crisis. clashes between the opposition and security forces right next to the presidential palace. it's become

a regular occurrence on the streets of port au prince. protesters continue to demand presidential in more he steps down. gives us. it's a strike against kidnapping against hunger in the country and we are sending a clear message to the president to respect the constitution earlier this week transport unions and other workers went on a 2 day strike denouncing institutional violence and an alarming grice in kidnappings human rights groups say at least a 1000 people were kidnapped in 2020 when someone is going up. the person must go to the street and asked for given security doesn't reason why we organize 2 days of look up to show. that we accept this situation you know but as soon as the look of finish the kidnapping restored quickly. haiti's opposition says it's time

for moyes to go they say he's mandate ends this sunday but moyes does a greece he says his 5 year term began when he was sworn in in 2017 and that he still has one year in power but members of the opposition say maurice term began in 2016 in the wake of chaotic elections. and while the political crisis deepens haiti's economy continues to deteriorate. economies like. says urgent action is needed. the amount of people going hungry in the country has doubled it's gone from $2000000.00 to $4000000.00 people the currency is devalued and there's an inflation rate close to 25 percent. to complicate matters legislative elections were postponed when parliamentary terms expired this past year preston moyes has been ruling haiti by decree the u.s. and the organization of american states have urged new legislative elections to

restore the balance of power maurice is proposing a referendum in april to reform the constitution. last week we held a major meeting with all interviews including the un the provisional electoral council the advisory committee the government the police chief the prime minister we had a big talk about security issues elections and the referendum we were clear with all these people on april 25th because it will be a victory for us. but the opposition says it's another excuse to hold onto power and that's why they vow to continue pressuring the government on the streets . ecuadorians will be voting in an election later held under the shadow of a severe economic and political crisis 16 presidential candidates are on the ballot but the main races between a former banker and economists are latin america it's a new scene yemen has more on what's at stake. ecuadorans are struggling with it

unprecedented economic crisis the question for many is who to blame their current centrist president leonine moreno or his socialist predecessor rafael correa. that may be the key to sunday's presidential elections like the current president taxidriver in the n.o.p. backing is confined to a wheelchair he backed moreno in the last election hoping the poor would get a better break but things have gone from bad to worse since the government implemented dramatic belt tightening measures imposed by the i.m.f. now be back in plans to vote for the return of left wing populism the zinc because the say that korea stalled and many other things but in fact he did lots of public works projects while the current government hasn't got anything except persecutor boards. there's 16 official presidential candidates but the most significant one

isn't even on the ballot at least not in person oh no nothing no one about that instead 35 year old economist and this and else is representing his former boss via korea who is living in belgium where he moved before in ecuador in court sentenced him to 8 years in prison on corruption charges at ows is leading in the polls promising to bring back the days of heavy social spending while campaigning with photos of his mentor grass' they'd be no question about the election outcome if he had been allowed to run. if i'd been a comment that there's no dealt with when by a landslide they destroyed the country persecuted me and my are lies. and slandered us i had to return to politics and defend the legacy our honor and the country. it's that prospect that frightens people like luis and read out his car parts business went from boom to bust under korea he hopes ecuadorans will vote for

a centrist banker and businessman d.m. or last saw of the creating opportunities party. them along at all we made the mistake of giving korea too much power and he did what he pleased as though he owned the country he didn't take advantage of the years of bonanza when oil prices were sky high they stole all the money. now trailing a 3rd place in the polls ecologist yacoob it is offering a middle ground between populist socialism and a mainstream free market economy but whoever wins will have more than the economy to deal with. according to a recent poll when it could dorian's when asked whether toward the country would be in 5 years 80 percent chance of the same or worse than that so the governability may be the key problem. and unless that perception can be reversed through elections many warned it may be the preamble to social upheaval

a widespread then what ecuador has already experienced to see in human 0. hundreds of people have defied curfews in georgia's capital tbilisi demanding the easing of coronavirus restrictions protesters say the 2nd lock down is having a major economic impact restaurant owners say their businesses will collapse if the government does not allow them to fully open georgia's had more than a quarter of a 1000000 cases and 3000 deaths. so don is warning its national security will be threatened dave ethiopia goes ahead with the 2nd phase of feeling its blue nile dam sudan's water minister says it will also put the lives of half of the country's population at risk so don in ethiopia fear the mega dam will diverse too much of the water they rely on while ethiopia says a project is vital to its economic future talks held last month to resolve the dispute failed to make any headway. now to the philippines where teachers and

students are angry at a decision to allow military forces to enter the top state university critics call the move an attack on academic freedom jermain island again has a story from melinda manila. if art is a reflection of society then this display of work by filipino artists email can be seen as a portrayal of young people struggle for academic freedom in the philippines time called. our barricade he created it to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the beginning put you in february 1971 activists march to the university joining marshall law and declared it liberated from state forces the incident ended in a violent scene which. and now similar battle lines are drawn once again the military has and did a decade's old agreement with the university of the philippines to keep state forces out of its campuses across the coaching the military says the university has

been a haven of recruitment for communist rebels the new people's army and the military have been fighting for more than 50 years the conflict is described as the world's oldest existing communist insurgency hope that we will. be militarized not in new york no only you. remember. what resources. for other universities have also been accused of encouraging dissent in a joint statement to the military their heads say such allegations are irresponsible and without proof critics say the military is the zisha and to cancel its accord with the university of the philippines is deeply disturbing it could soon mean that soldiers in civilian clothes could join students in rallies and that the atmosphere of freedom and campuses would soon be replaced by fear.

of the man who thought of buying him in. length all heroes. across the country student activists are up in arms to unfairly targeting so far and it's because. so. much of tom's work has been focused on the legacy of the martial law era when young people were under siege and turned to art as a means of expression and defense he says recent events are a reminder that those times of trouble and conflict could be returned to the dog an al-jazeera manila. are still ahead in sports have been 18th birthday present for christiana rinaldo as he scores again for japan does

a day after turning 36. february on al-jazeera under strict accents to iran's nuclear program is about to end will u.s. president joe biden overturn trump sanctions and help rebuild relations al-jazeera sansom to the journey to the heart of what it means to be a true supporter of the political game the us has the highest covered 1000 count in the wound the new administration has promised to turn that around we'll have extensive coverage the big picture reveals how the perfect storm of events in 2020 exposed the truth about wakes up the hawk to the united states and this president joe biden embarks on his 1st month in the white house we'll bring you the latest developments escape attempts to repair global relationships february on al-jazeera frank assessments you go colleagues on the ground in the canaries what is the

situation there's only one doctor and one nurse for $2200.00 people and in-depth analysis of the dates global headlines. inside story on al-jazeera. over. time just wants his job thank you very much it is super bowl sunday and the kansas city chiefs are chasing this 2nd straight title against the tampa bay buccaneers jeter the pandemic the chiefs opted to spend super bowl week at heart even before flying to tampa and this was them arriving on saturday on a limited number of fans will be allowed inside the stadium but health experts are worried about another spike in 1000 cases and he got reports. and camp out

word got out of. the super bowl is by far the biggest sporting and television event in the united states last year's final attracted over 100000000 viewers but as the tampa bay buccaneers and kansas city chiefs prepared to meet on sunday this will be a game like no other tampa's raymond james stadium is the venue it's also a testing site for code 19 in a state that's lost close to 30000 people to the virus in a bid to keep the game safe the stadium will only be a 3rd full with strict protocols and social distancing as you pass through security screening your tickets will be scanned and you will be provided with a safety kit which includes a and $95.00 mask and a hand sanitizer health experts say the national football league's measures are acceptable under the circumstances that more concerned with what happens in areas outside their control it's the pre-game post-game and for those people who aren't

at the game the during game celebrations where we expect folks to get together in private and public venues and that's where the risk is especially since we now have 3 new strains of the disease that have made landfall in the states there will of course be the much anticipated celebrity filled multimillion dollar ads but also a recognition of the sacrifice made by u.s. healthcare workers $7500.00 free tickets have been allocated to vaccinated frontline staff mostly from florida just so exciting i kinda don't even believe it you know it's like a fairy tale almost it's amazing and we're very grateful all this is a far cry from previous super bowls where host cities reap huge economic benefits last year's game in miami generated more than $500000000.00 for the local economy tampa's mess says the goal is to have fans arrive healthy and leave healthy umask mandates now in place but health experts warn there could be a spike uncovered 1000 cases following the game the super bowl was never going to

be canceled all anyone can do is make the best and hopefully the safest of a bad situation to gallacher al-jazeera miami florida. heavy weight boxing champion leon spinks has died at the age of 67 if famously shocked mohammed ali to win the title in 1978 in his 8 fight as a professional springs also won olympic gold at the 1976 games in montreal for the last 5 years he'd been battling prostate and other cancers. to football now much the united missed the chance to draw level with manchester city at the top of the premier league they were held to a $33.00 draw at home by everton dominic calvert low in school the equaliser in the 5th minutes of stoppage time united are 2 points behind city who have 2 games in hand city play live point later on sunday. over in italy the day after his $36.00 birthday christan or an alto school for ventas as they beat roma to no it's his

23rd goal in $24.00 appearances and moves the defending champions above roma into 3rd place still 5 points behind the leaders into milan. thanks. more details are emerging from buying munich's much delayed arrival to a fee for club world cup in qatar european champions landed in doha on saturday 9 hours later than planned of to spending the night stuck on a plane on the tarmac in berlin a snowstorm delayed their departure after their win over her to berlin and that they fell foul of local rules banning flights from taking off after midnight or by and only have a short time to recover those they face african champions are actually in the semifinals on monday before that south american title holders pomade us open their campaign against mexico's teeth rays in a few hours time made as other favorites but they've also had a whirlwind few days just over a week ago they were crowned copula but there is champions before flying to cats

are. who beat south korean team all sun in the opening match of the competition have been following their rivals closely. start. but by doing door we know palmyra some brazilian football perfectly i don't think there's anything we don't know about them i was more worried we were going to play the south korean team in mexico brazilian football is easy to watch whenever you want a day before the australian open defending champion of a joke which has reignited his feud with nick carious the australian player called joke of rich a tour over his list of demands to ease quarantine rules he has a quality to beat any player really in the world in the past. off the court. you know i don't have much respect for him to be honest and that's this well i'll close it i really don't have any any further comments for him than he's he's on comments for me or for for anything else russia have clinched tennis is a.t.p.

cup title after beating it's only in the final in melbourne while not before daniel medvedev improved his winning streak to 14 matches as he clinched his country's 2 no victory he meant a a better teenie 6462 teammate andre replay of had beaten fabio fognini earlier but rather a both russians are in the world's top 10 and could meet his rivals at the quarter final stage at the australian open which begins on monday. when wins world number one ash barty enters our home grand slam in fine form to the australians been playing in her 1st tournament in almost a year after opting out of international travel because of the current a virus pandemic but she beat 2 time grand slam champion got binyam good with her in straight sets in the yarra valley classic on sunday and herself a trophy of wooden one bats. i'm just lashing a double century against india the england cricket captain joe root has been impressing in the field too he took this spectacular one handed catch to get rid of

. on day 3 of the 1st test to. hit 73 but india are 20245 way behind england's 1st innings total of 578 this bad news though for england's rugby team in the 1st game of their 6 nations title defense they were beaten at home by scotland for the 1st time since 190311 points to 6. lead into the final round of goals phoenix open in arizona both players are 18 under par but space carded 10 birdies on saturday in a career best round of 61 the 3 time major champion capped off the sensational round with a birdie putts at the 17th hole. and adventuring grandfather has completed a record breaking atlantic voyage 70 year old british frank ruf well has become the oldest person to row across the ocean heat it took him $56.00 days to make the nearly 5000 kilometer journey from the canary islands in a boat he called never too old all right that is

a useful and out as but folly never till thank you so much show for that asset for this news hour i do say was that on al-jazeera more news would come out coming out shortly stay with us. when all that seems to matter is the headline there is always 2 sides to a story when narratives and counter narratives of just curiosity the leader on the one hand the enemy is over neither on the other hand the listening post strips away the spin what kind of reporting if you can see on the ground misinformation is right place better the bias people believe things because they want to believe them

done covers the uncomfortable truths do you think they did enough to scrutinize the case for war the listing posts on. the philippine despising to restore by saying. that the night any wrong. one when he stood next to gates on al-jazeera. is only change because. believe in a post that has become. a way to make a political my city around the state representative they put them so. it's to make the changes something that we. should have taken this long. we have the disc culture to slosh to create new areas we have to change this culture and one of the fortunate ones an establishment type but all the people that

majority of these legal research talk about are just good hardworking people that want to live the american dream like our ancestors these are him to refugees are terrified that they may be forced to return to being more. up to 150 people feared dead in northern india as a himalayan glad to see a bright support leashing a torrent of water through a narrow valley. hello again on come all sons of maria here in doha this is the world news from al-jazeera gunshots have been heard at a rally in me and moderates tens of thousands of people protest for a 2nd day against the military coup.