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a glass collapse killed at least 14 dozens of others are feared missing. and millions pushed to poverty in nigeria following corruption and the confiscation of land. israel's prime minister has just arrived at court in west jerusalem for a herring on corruption charges benjamin netanyahu has been charged with bribery fraud and breach of trust in 3 separate cases he denies the crimes and says he's the victim of what he calls an attempted coup let's go straight to harry for that he's standing outside the courtroom in west jerusalem harry talk us through what we're expecting to happen in court today. well the reports that we're already getting from inside the courts are that her netanyahu is

there he's standing near the back of the courtroom talking to his lawyers near some open windows which should be left of because of coronavirus restrictions and can hear clearly the protest behind us here a few 100 or so so meters away these people are here to oppose benjamin netanyahu the heart of the crowds that have been gathering near his house every saturday night for months now he told his own supporters not to come out because of coronavirus fears but as for what's going to happen the question is really will he say something in response to the accusations against him in court that is the object of today's trial is for his lawyer legal team to respond to those accusations that he committed bribery fraud and breach of trust in 3 separate cases the 1st to do accepting lavish gifts from billionaire friends and the other 2 are

trying to allegedly manipulate the israeli media in his favor so the question is whether he will actually say anything in terms of. his own voice during the proceedings themselves but also this is probably more important setting up the shed for the main phase the main evidentiary phase of the trial what we will hear from witnesses whether or not you know in self will after sent through a long 3 day a week sessions potentially impinging on his ability to run the country in the run up to that election on march 23rd will it be before that election or just after some of the key things that we're waiting to hear from today's proceedings ok inherent in this is just meant to mention just weeks before a national election another national elections for israel we can see in the hand some very noisy protests as behind you but how much the israelis as a home care about this trial. well i mean in the for in the 3 previous elections and that's in yahoo has maintained is key support essentially

here is telling his right wing supporters that this is a witch hunt that this is an attempted coup when he came here for the 1st time back in may when he attended the 1st proper day of this trial may last year he laid out an extraordinary leveling of charges against individuals and the entire judicial system so is very much trying to undermine the nature of this this entire prosecution his lawyers have been doing the same thing and also trying to delay and put back and say they need more time to review the various elements of the of the paperwork in the charges against him they say for instance that the attorney general did not give proper written confirmation of his approval for the investigation to go ahead that it was verbal and they're trying to say that there is a problem legally in that aspect as well so as far as that you know is concerned he

has been trying to tell his supporters that this is a politicized action but the main thing is that he remains in charge both in terms of his ability to look after his own security he's been selling himself on his vaccination program as well to try to conduct a covert 19 situation and to some extent obviously the people here bimini opposed on grounds of the of the corruption situation in russia charges against him but a lot of people lot of voters of christ in this process for many months now so the question is whether really moves the election some extent the timing of the main evidentially phase where that comes in the days just ahead of the vote when there could be some very damaging allegations put by witnesses under oath that might be an opportunity for this really to influence the closing up until now it hasn't really ok have a force at the ana west. thanks i will leave it there for the moment will come back to you if and when benjamin netanyahu the israeli prime minister speaks at this

pretrial hearing where he's standing for 3 cases of corruption. now in miramar. in the capsule naypyidaw to break up protests after thousands returned to the streets for a 3rd day of demonstrations. 'd demonstrations are growing increasingly bold in the weeks since the military seize power a civil disobedience campaign has evolved into strikes and protests last monday man was army ousted the democratically elected government and arrested civilian leader aung sun suu kyi. is watching developments closely from bangkok and scott there's news and pictures of water cannon being fired at protesters enabled or just a few short bursts but is it the 1st sign of security pushing back. it is exactly you know we've seen these protests kind of steadily grow in size and

then the civil disobedience become more organized over these last several days you know it really kind of started mid last week after that monday who we saw health care workers be the 1st ones to really kind of organize themselves and then almost every day we've seen a steady increase and we're seeing that again today laura and also another 1st is that they this is the 1st time we've seen any kind of pushback and again it wasn't . too strong from the water cannon we saw in april in the capitol but what was very interesting is it sounds like there are some reports from the ground that there was actually a negotiation with some of the protesters and the police there to stop it to not do it anymore and it looked as though even you know during those couple of burst it really wasn't being that effective anyway so it's very it's yes we have seen this push back for the 1st time but across the country tens of thousands of protesters have come out and onto the streets you know pretty much from all walks of life many

walks of life so it's interesting to see how things have steadily ratcheted up as you said more but also how things have become much more organized too as these protests have marched on do you feel to get the feelings come up that there is a sense of momentum that these protests as will be out on the streets for a long time. absolutely now i quite honestly you know we started talking to our contacts on the streets there in young dawn this morning monday morning after those big big numbers we saw over the weekend you know the comparison to the saffron revolution back in 2007 they were saying you know this is much much bigger so we all kind of thought monday morning people are going to maybe get back to work but absolutely not we have seen many many thousands of people pour out so yes there is clearly some momentum going and again as you kind of click through the last 7 days since this is all really kind of started that momentum and the size and the organization has has clicked up almost every single day ok scott

will be there for the moment many thanks for the updates from bangkok. now rescue cure crews in northern india are trying to reach survivors after part of a himalayan glass there collapsed at least 14 people have died in around 170 a missing. water rushing down a valley to hydroelectric power plants was swept away and people were forced to evacuate their villages as reports from us in the mountainous states of. a wall of water dust and rock rules down to a river in northern india the bridges and dams in its path damaged or destroyed. a portion of the number is said to have broken off sending the torrent surging down the mountain and through now a valleys but no people living on the ganga and several nearby tributaries who want to move to safety immediately so what does it do to them when the i've never seen

anything like what i saw at the ritchie gang a power plant about 50 to 100 people were running for their lives they could not be saved and they were engulfed by the river. rescue teams and the military quickly arrived at the area where dozens of people were working on major hydro power projects like the top of one vishnu god plant which was under construction all this scramble to reach at least one block tunnel where people were trapped inside. here at least some good news but several workers pulled from the rubble. in these difficult times the modi government is standing shoulder to shoulder with the people of that account the disaster management team is along with other security forces are already there the indian air force is also on alert it is our priority to minimize the loss of life and property to the people and restore normalcy here. in the himalayas as prone to flash floods and landslides in june

23rd record rainfall caused devastating floods that claimed close to 6000 lives. that disaster has dubbed the himalayan tsunami because of the torrents of water which buried homes and swept away buildings roads and bridges. and vall mentum experts have criticized the construction of power projects in the area pointing to its fragile ecosystem and the damage caused by the 2013 floods it seems like the pot plant which was right in the office this disaster today was actually in less than 15 megawatt hydro plant the question is should we be compromising the integrity of the malia for such a small projects more questions will no doubt be raised after this latest disaster from now rescue teams say they'll work through the night to find people believed to be trapped in tunnels and under debris elizabeth al-jazeera rishikesh with that

archive. on al-jazeera president biden says he won't lift sanctions on iran unless it returns to its nuclear deal commitments. the u.s. should make the 1st move. and so she. claims victory in presidential election polls suggest the race is heading for a runoff in april. so today was an orange day for many places in central southern europe orange because it's full of sour and dust which fell on the slopes these are 1st the white ski slopes in the pyrenees but 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 syria caught 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 line of snow is always where you get the temperature contrast and that is quite a contrast daytime highs of minus 30 in say to warsaw are significantly cold and the contrast is our grow. but 13 says a big difference here and with that east of the screaming when it's nasty conditions in the low countries and to be honest on the east side of england and scotland as well so whilst a significant snows probably going to be across northern poland and maybe belarus places like london a couple of days or role weather with snow fall and even when the snow stops for the $72.00 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.

radicalism is on the rise across the globe and we're told it's everywhere we're told we're supposed to be highly suspicious of everybody and everything but our government policies aimed at tackling radicalisation in fact pushing youngsters to the fringes of society the impact is you don't belong and there is so much we can try before you say ok that's me rethinking radicalization part of the radicalized youth series on al-jazeera. or. hello again you're watching al-jazeera has reminder of our top stories this hour

israel's prime minister has arrived in court for a hearing on charges of bribery fraud and breach of trust and when he denies the crimes and says he's the victim of what he calls an attempted coup. police at miramar use water cannon to try and break up protests thousands of returned to the streets for a 3rd day of demonstrations last monday the army took over the government in a rest of the country's civilian leader aung sun suu kyi. and rescue operations have resumed in northern india to find around 170 people missing after himalayan glass collapsed at least 14 bodies have been recovered glasses that water rushing down a valley. south africa has suspended plans to vaccinate all frontline health workers with the astra zeneca job after a trial showed it might be less effective against the more contagious variant of the country's recent surge of covert 19 africa will offer vaccines up by johnson and johnson and finds a in the coming weeks last week south africa has received 1000000 doses of the

astra zeneca job it was due to start vaccinating people in the next few days. meanwhile the chinese government says it's aiming to vaccinate 50000000 people as the new new year travel rush begins warned that few large numbers of people are expected to leave the chinese capital to travel home for the new year health experts say as many as half a 1000000000 will have to receive a job to reach the so-called herd immunity status katrina you reports from beijing . every day crowds of workers are being bussed into this beijing museum to receive covert 19 tax nations the chinese government aims to vaccinate $50000000.00 people by the middle of this month. after vaccinating workers will move to ordinary people we asked mate it will take about half a year to finish beijing's population. security guards delivery and transport

workers are among those instructed to receive the jobs 2 to 3000 people are not at this beijing vaccinations and every day the chinese government has prioritized certain industries the 1st phase of its mass vaccination rollout and so many of the people who come here it's their employer who has organized that business but experts say china needs to speed up its vaccination rollout and a lack of widespread infection means a slower development of herd immunity among the population which may not be achieved at a late 2022. vaccine a 50000000 people by mid february. but it doesn't mean much is only one 3rd pace of total population maybe only after $500000000.00 inoculated will see the difference china afford to relax there are also fears beijing want to have enough doses for its $1400000000.00 population china has promised $10000000.00 doses to kovacs an international alliance distributing vaccines to developing countries it's also

exporting about $400000000000.00 to countries such as brazil and indonesia and donating millions more to allies including pakistan. the discovery of a counterfeit vaccine in the southern province of jugs earlier this month has also undermined confidence in vaccine safety authorities say all fake doses have been tracked down. the chinese government attaches great importance to serve god in the security of the vaccines and will continue to crack down on vaccine related crimes the government is also under pressure to roll that vaccines out of the national people's congress the nation's largest leaders gathering in march to preparations for the 2022 winter olympics in beijing has high hopes for the olympics and its vaccines will help improve its international image in the wake of the penn demick. but questions about china's role the outbreak remain unanswered

its borders are still closed and its people await their turn to receive a vaccine katrina new al-jazeera teaching. and another reversal of donald trump's foreign policy as u.s. president joe biden's administration plans to rejoin the un human rights council earlier this week biden vowed to end stripes isolationist policies and declared diplomacy is back trump pulled out of the human rights council in 2018 calling as a hypocritical organization hostile towards israel. or president biden says he will not lift sanctions to get iran back to the negotiating table and it's been suggested the move would only happen if to stops and rich iranian former president withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal that led to iran rolling back its commitments. in washington d.c. she says biden has bipartisan support on his decision. the white house official told al-jazeera today that president biden quote certainly will not be removing

these sanctions from iran just to get iran back to the negotiating table and republicans are supporting president biden in not lifting these u.s. sanctions 1st senator lindsey graham saying that it must be 1st iran that changes its behavior so certainly the stalemate continues even as we know that the background of all of this is that the by the administration wants to renegotiate the nuclear deal that had been cancelled by trump biden's national security advisor jake sullivan has criticized the policy saying that they only aggravated the tensions between iran and the u.s. escalating this nuclear crisis in his words and president biden has said that this is his hope is to return to diplomacy how that happens though of course is still to be determined. the united nations special envoy to gammon is visiting

a wrong for the 1st time to discuss the war. visit comes off the u.s. revoked its terrorist designation for who the rebels the group is backed by this month the u.s. halted that support for saudi arabia the saudi arabia led military campaign in yemen a promise to help defend its borders. a socialist economist andres our ows has topped the poll in the 1st round of ecuador's presidential elections he will be facing a runoff and april. despite the pandemic ecuadorians flocked to polling stations in record numbers on sunday to choose a new president early results indicate 36 year old socialist economist and that is the front runner with more than 31 percent of the vote but he won't be able to avoid a runoff in april even though the final results are yet to be announced claimed victory minutes after the polls closed this is public but i don't think i need

a quick tour in peoples have solutions now there are many changes that must be made urgently and we were ready to work for a country to work from home and after this resoundingly victory people have given us but his main rival conservative x. banker guillermo last so who is running going to free market platform insists the contest is far from over. what i can tell you is that there will be a 2nd round and we will be in the 2nd round. another candidate ecologists paris who offers a middle ground between populist socialism and a mainstream free market economy could also end up a surprise 2nd after an unexpected strong result. the vote was largely seen as a referendum on the government's handling of an economic crisis that sparked violent protests in 2019. mostly unknown to ecuadorians was handpicked by former president of

a failed korea which mediately pushed him to the front of the fields of candidates despite being an exile in belgium were removed before and they could dorian court sentenced him to 8 years in prison for corruption his political influence still looms large in deeply divided dorian's. there's concern in tension fear of being infected with the virus and the instability we're experiencing in the country i'm worried about the candidate that will be elected at ows is promising if elected to make $1000000000.00 us dollars in direct cash payments to families affected by that and then make an a return to the socialist policies promoted by his mentor but most analysts agree on is that whoever wins will have to prove he can offer real solutions to a country on edge i listen to. a police officer has been detained in china over the fatal shooting of a street performer relatives and friends have gathered in the capital santiago for

the wake of francisco. he was killed by police on friday and his death has triggered large protests against police brutality. more than 20 people have been arrested in haiti for an alleged plot amid a dispute over the president's term limits says the group that includes a supreme court judge under senior police official had been planning for months to kill him position says his 5 year term expired on sunday but moyes says he's got another year as president on our upper low reports. on the other day of protests in port au prince opposition supporters continue their calls for the resignation of president xi. because they had to do was simply we cannot accept that job now moyes violates the constitution of the country we demand that the constitution be respected. but instead of responding to the opposition president

moyes told reporters his political rivals had plotted to overthrow his government and have him killed. thank you to all my security guards thank god their plan didn't work out security personnel will explain in detail what happened yesterday the security of the national palace arrested more than 20 people who had one goal and that was to leave the country without may images on social media showed the rest of the opposition members including a supreme court judge in ideas should be a judges court in the uk the less than 48 hours ago he's been captured along with an inspector general of police who are planning to arrest the president and take into patchy at the same time they plan to invade the palace to install a provisional president who already had his speech prepared in this case we can all speak of immunity. the arrest come on the day that opposition leaders see the president's mandate in office was supposed to end well everything i'm hearing from

haiti and just gathering the strands is that this is actually an attack against the opposition parties kind of an excuse to round up opponents the people who have been arrested are a number of prominent voices in critiquing his regime so to me it seems like the story is a cover for something very different. tensions in haiti remain high as opposition leaders have vowed to continue to put pressure on the movies and have called for more demonstrations miller palo alto. sudan's prime minister abdullah ham dock has dissolved his cabinet he is expected to announce a new government later on monday that will include ministers from rebel groups that signed a peace deal last october to donna's transitioning to democratic rule under a $21000.00 power sharing deal between the military and civilian leaders. a scramble for scarce land in nigeria is pushing millions of people into poverty that's according to activists and 2018 nigeria over to india as the country with

the largest number of people living in extreme poverty experts say it's largely because of corruption land confiscations and how resources a distributed but it just reports from been in kebbi. in 7 years was literally has 4 to please 16 court cases of land being taken and justly but lost most of them. the lawyer an activist says the poor are up against the powerful who have the resources to manipulate the judiciary. where local traditionally. used area court judges succeeded in the land from peace sent hundreds who are not in apart from that form and that ended in abject poverty in a min. equally among the politicians he says many landowners and witnesses are

being intimidated into silence. across nigeria there is a huge demand for land for housing projects and industrial units in many cases developers used force to encroach upon farmland and evict poor farmers from the. what and i use of chose to sell 2 or 3 forms rather than lose them or the one of. the rich people invade our villages and use their enormous amounts of money to convince a region coerce poor villages to sell them land as a result many of now lost their source of livelihood and become destitute. nigeria's population grows by 3 percent each year the same rate as i've been a zation but as the rich and powerful nigerians buy up more land experts here that the government and the poor may soon struggle to find enough for agriculture and development experts say even protected forest land is being targeted they say the elite are enabled by with close and corruption the line used. allows

people to. parcels of land which then are fence off so that poor people are increasingly being pushed to the margins ones who fence of the land the push of who are these poor people poor farmers poor hard those who are increasingly being pushed would imagine of safety as. is constant. developers economics that the odds favor the rich but say most often it's the poor who approach biased sauce. very serious or. money. so that as a challenge you really is a challenge for. well i says to lance you know is that you. personally is the. all or us group really serious

we develop. life. i mean. activists warn that unless the government puts an end to unrestrained and sometimes illegal acquisitions nigeria could soon face conflicts bigger than those the country is kind of plea deal with but it reset. button in keeping. the without a 0 these are our top stories as ron's prime minister has pleaded not guilty to corruption charges and minutes now has a pair and a west jerusalem court for herring and says he's the victim of what he calls an attempted coup by force that is outside the court and west jerusalem. the object of today's trial is for his noise legal team to read.