and this is your stock of. the passion and the politics of the little f. c. the defiance joint. part of the fans who make football series on al-jazeera. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu pleads not guilty to corruption charges just weeks ahead of elections. hello than or a car that says al jazeera live from doha also coming up south africa suspends its coronavirus vaccination program a week after receiving a 1000000 doses of the astra zeneca job. police fire water cannon the thousands

protesting against the coup in the capital. and search and rescue efforts in northern india after a glass or collapse killed at least 14 dozens of others are feared missing. israel's prime minister has pleaded not guilty to corruption charges in the past hour benjamin netanyahu has appeared in court 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's called an attempted coup on that scale live to how the force that he was outside the court in occupied east jerusalem and her the proceedings are well underway now and what's been happening so far. well yes it pretty interesting stuff going on inside the prime minister of this. well benjamin

netanyahu for the 1st time. in courts to the charges essentially pleading not guilty what he actually says was that he confirmed the written submission by his lawyers and his name and he then sat through about 20 minutes or so the legal argument before what extraordinarily just getting up saying thank you to the court and leaving as the trial carried on those out of the pretrial grandstanding that we saw last time around in may last year when he gave a lengthy speech attacking the judiciary the judiciary some of the senior legal of patients who've been in charge of this investigation against him he kept quiet he went into the court he confirms that his lawyers case was that he had no case to answer and that he left early in the proceedings as for the proceedings themselves we've been hearing the key legal argument by you know who's trial team and they are saying that because in their argument the attorney general did not sign an official

enough document authorizing various aspects of the investigation to diversity geisha itself was an illegal one so far the judges don't seem to have had much time for that argument they've been pressing him on that and saying that there is in fact a memo that confirms that he did approve the investigation so that's the guts of the legal argument has been going on so far ok what do we know about how long these proceedings might last because of course there's an election another election looming in israel at the end of march. oh yes this is a hearing ahead of the evidentiary phase of the trial the truth the face of the trial when we will hear from witnesses we could hear extremely publicly damaging allegations under oath from witnesses called by the prosecution and we could also see benjamin netanyahu himself potentially having to sit by while these allegations are made for long days. hearing evidence during which time uses a p.c.

running the country so that is a key question coming out from today will the judges mandate that he has to sit through it and more importantly when will it happen because we have an election coming up on the 25th of march around if the average rephrasing stays of the trial is just ahead of the thing he works for joining us here is corruption trial which passion really did lead in terms of his support in 3 successive emergencies in just short. functioning kadish and government majority in the israeli parliament the knesset perhaps that could be the sign the peace to achieve a good friend might have an influence on the upcoming election. ok harris also signing that outside of that court appearance and very noisy and netanyahu protesters hurry for the moment thanks very much. now south africa has suspended plans to vaccinate front line health workers with the astra zeneca job after

a trial showed it might be less effective against the more contagious variants those cause the country's recent surge of covert 19 south africa will offer vaccines up by johnson and johnson and pfizer in the coming weeks last week south africa received 1000000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine m is due to start vaccinating people in the next few days wait a minute joins us now from johannesburg and for me this is surely a big blow for south africa tell us more about why the government has decided not to use the astra zeneca vaccine just yet. well to begin with south africa was already the government was criticized for not having moved fast enough in procuring vaccines they then announced that frontline workers would be vaccinated from the middle of february and even now that is most likely delayed because of the suspension of the use of astra zeneca according to the studies that have been done and we are expecting that full study to be

published sometime today 2000 participants were studied with regard to the response to astra zeneca and the government has said that it shows that there is only a 22 percent efficacy rate when trying to prevent mild or moderate covert 19 now this is very damaging for the government given the criticism it's already faced and even if the government can be forgiven for only understanding now that the vaccine is not is as effective as they had hoped the government has also come out to say that the vaccines that received the 1000000 doses last week it's only on arrival that it was a stablished that these vaccines expire in april vaccines take about 6 months they have a 6 month shelf life and already south africa has a difficulty in that it didn't have this information on hand so so that ricans are certainly very disappointed and there really is an issue of confidence with regard

to how the government is managing this vaccine rollout for the time being we know that they've said that they use the information they had on hand they've said that this was the most accessible vaccine at the time and what they'll do now is one of the experts on the panel that's trying to deal with the vaccine rollout has said it would it would be irresponsible to completely discard the astra zeneca vaccine instead they will vaccinate some people at some point but at the same time continue studies to understand better how to use astra zeneca they've said they've asked these questions do they mix and match to the use astra zeneca along with other vaccines does it make a difference if people have antibodies who've already had covered 90 so certainly more questions have been raised than than ever before really and with this new variant for me all across south africa just how urgently do people need it is vaccines. well south africa is heading towards the end of its 2nd wave but at the peak there were about $20000.00 new cases every day

that's now reduced to about 2000 cases new cases every day still the it is a lot of concern around a 3rd possible way which we've seen in other parts of the world and i was specially as south africa heads to the winter months towards the middle of the year and experts have said if south africa doesn't vaccinate quick enough we're certainly going to see that 3rd wave south africa has that new variant that's been identified here it is it's far more contagious and now experts are also saying that there's evidence to show that it's more virulent so this is a massive blow for the south african government they have said that they're expecting vaccines from other companies specifically johnson and johnson the deputy director of health in south africa indicated earlier today in media reports that the johnson and johnson vaccine could arrive in south africa possibly toward the end of this week as we've seen with after the knicker there's

a lot of processes that need to take place quality assurance and this would apply to any vaccines coming in so no vaccine roll out in the middle of february that's likely to happen towards the end of the month or even march and the government is already dealing with a confidence issue from south africa or right for me many thanks for brains very latest from johannesburg. now police in manama have used. the capsule made the door to break up protests to thousands returned to the streets for a 3rd day of demonstrations. 'd demonstrations have grown increasingly bold in the weeks since the military seized power a civil disobedience campaign has evolved into strikes and protests last month a man was on the outside democratically elected government and the rest of the civilian leader and son suchi scott had to has moved from bangkok. we've seen these protests kind of steadily grow in size and in 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 and also another 1st is that that this is the 1st time we've seen any kind of push back and again it wasn't. too strong from the water cannon we saw and they put her in the capital 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 bursts it really wasn't being that effective anyway so it's very instant yes we have seen this push back for the 1st time but across the country tens of thousands of protestors have come out on to 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 but also how things have become much more organized too as these

protests have marched on. rescue crews in northern india are trying to reach survivors after part of a himalayan glass collapsed sending a torrent of water and death way down a valley and he's 14 people have died in around 170 a missing water swept away 2 hydroelectric power plants and forced the evacuation of villages and one can reports. since sunday frantic rescue efforts continue to try and find as many of the 170 people still missing that's the official figure many more could be missing than that fit. the operation is big and getting bigger some 2000 police paramilitary and military personnel are involved and they include specialists in mountain rescue i'll be here. this morning we intensified the search operation in the 2nd tunnel where we think there are 30 people still trapped we have 300 rescue workers on site. the disaster began on sunday when

a wall of water dust and rock destroyed everything in its path as it flowed down the dolly congo river in northern india a portion of the number of davie's glass here said to have broken off sending the torrent surging down the mountain and through narrow valleys below. the number davies part of the himalayan mountain range it's a fertile area for india providing hydro electricity through a series of dams 2 of which have now been destroyed the area has been hit by flash floods before in 2013 record rainfall caused devastating floods that claimed close to 6000 lives despite that construction has continued on hydroelectric power environmentalist including the former water minister of question building more energy projects in such a naturally volatile area imran khan. so has hair on al-jazeera a political crisis in somalia as the president's term ends with no agreement on how

to replace. it was angela and some on them and the police brutality after a street performer is shot dead in a tourist town and. it's time for the perfect gentleman who went sponsored point qatar airways where yesterday was properly wintry good part of northern europe with the destruction of traffic for germany and the netherlands and you may not see mediately why from this but it's this line here this is relatively warm air coming against real cold in the north near was temperatures by day still a high of minus 7 in warsaw minus 40 new vilnius coming up against this orange here so somewhere in here there's a good battle line if you like weather wise and this is a result i mean this is the worst snowstorm in the netherlands for 10 years alex

doesn't quite know all settle down but the combination of snow and wind together did produce some pretty awful conditions official doctrine wasn't supposed to be at that angle trains were stopped both in netherlands and germany i suspect the worst days more likely to be in poland snow wise and a bit further south in the czech republic freezing rain still a possibility and that's not cold east wind still blowing off the east coast of the u.k. so eastern england eastern scotland still pretty poor condition wise and yet the contrast for the south is this air coming in from the atlantic look at the temperature of palermo 16 probably going higher than that so was walsall sophos about minus 7 minus 6 the next couple of days further south to talk about 20 in the sunshine in parliament. qatar airways. radicalism is on the rise across the globe and we're told it's every west we're told we're supposed to be highly suspicious of everybody and everything but our

government policies aimed at tackling radicalization in fact pushing youngsters to the fringes of society be impacted you don't belong and there's only so much we can try before you say ok that's me rethinking radicalization of the radicalized youth syrians on al-jazeera. any watching out is there is a reminder of our top stories this hour israel's prime minister has pleaded not guilty to charges of bribery fraud and breach of trust benjamin netanyahu says he's the victim of what he calls an attempted coup. south africa has suspended plans to

vaccinate frontline health workers with astra zeneca job after a trial showed it might be less effective against the more contagious variant has caused the country's recent surge of covert 19. and pretty soon men might have used 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 civilian leader aung sang suu kyi. somalia's opposition leaders say they no longer recognize the president mohammed far maggio's term has expired but with no agreement on elections to replace him and the eyes of opposition candidates say they won't accept an extension of his term through pressure a plan to hold an indirect presidential election broke down over disagreements on how to proceed with the vote speak to of course but of the day he's monitoring the

story from nairobi and mohammed the president's term has now expired so what's happening. well there is confusion i must say in somalia's political arena as we speak because today was when the presidential election was supposed to have taken place before about there was a whole process of electing members of the local house of representatives and the senate who were in tons of polls to elect the president on the 8th of february today about that line has now been passed and these no indication whatsoever of what could happen next opposition presidential candidates to go to court of they would not want to see an extension of president mohammed of life for modules mandate and he remaining in office saying is a big no for them some of them have been approaching the speaker of parliament who

has scoffed at suggestions for him to become an interim president for a period of 3 months now all our lives. in a situation of limbo and no one can. prevent after predict what would happen from here on in but what chance is that that this transitional crisis can be resolved amicably with the involvement of the international community perhaps. yes indeed the international community of the movement is engaged in the spirit at the probiotic affords to once again bringing together the president of the regional for draw administrations. this big. falling out with the president about meeting held in the central somalian town of. particularly the president of jubilant who has the biggest bone to pick with the

president and the thing is supposed to take place in the coming days according to a diplomatic sources in mogadishu and if at all there is a breakthrough with them then the fate of the president himself has to be discussed to see whether he would be going on with his current role all the would be another interim administration as the presidential candidates from the opposition want a tense time for somalia mohammed many thanks for bringing us the latest from nairobi . now the sudanese army says it's made new gains in the disputed. triangle of farmlands along the ethiopian border tensions have led to an increased military build up there and talks between the 2 sides have stalled and the morgan reports from sudan's cat are with states. from this standing point

can see the elevation of his farmland more than 3 and a half kilometers away but for more than 20 years he says he has not been able to access it he says if you're paying farmers back by militia men took over the area in 1906 pushing him and other sudanese farmers out of their property and then. there was nothing we could do when ethiopian farmers came the previous government and since soldiers and the ethiopians were backed by the military we had nothing so we were forced to leave the lands and we have westward. farm lies in an for sugar incident east and about of state and for sugar covers an area of about 3000 square kilometers and sudan's government uses to colonial agreement to claim the region it's divided into greater and lesser for sugar by a river contributing to its fertility to produce sesame and weeds but ethnic on her farmers from neighboring ethiopia in the east city area belongs to them and have been farming it for nearly 5 decades in december last year while the government was

occupied with the military operation and its northern tigre a region sudan's army moved into push back if you can farmers in the area the move has sparked border violence in the past week that's resulted in deaths and injuries of soldiers from both sides this is the alberta river and on the other side is where all the military operation is taking place so that's army says it's reclaimed 80 percent of the farmland in groups especially girls that were previously occupied by if the opium farmers and less of the army says it's reclaimed 60 percent of the area so that is who have gotten their lands back say they're concerned with farming season only weeks away if they have those who've been pushed away from fresh and are welcome back even if they have to use force to do it. since 2002 talks to the market the borders have stalled between the 2 sides so then once the boundaries drawn according to the 1000 or 2 deal if you appear on the other hand want to renegotiate for a new deal we have to come up together sit together look into. the study of the

program and then define the status of the part of. holdings of the ethiopians and the sudanese in the sort of area it's only after that we can go into the americas. if your piece says it won't resume talks with sudan and less its forces withdraw from a fresh account some sudanese border specialists say if europe is more concerned about addressing domestic issues. there is an international agreement recognized by sudan. and before it even the un if you please messages right now are not directed to this with me or the world is directed internally towards its people the best way to move forward is to democrats the border and then look at the welfare of the if you can farm and once the border is clearly marked jalopy says he hopes he gets his farmland back before the start of the season like many other farmers from both sides of the continued tension along the border means they're likely missed out on farming this season and potentially longer if the issue is not resolved quickly he

morgan al-jazeera got out of state. is president joe biden says he will not lift sanctions to get iran back to the negotiating table on its nuclear program and a t.v. interview biden suggested the move would only happen after iran stops enriching uranium for president donald trump 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 administration wants to renegotiate the nuclear deal that had been cancelled by trump biden's national security advisor jake sullivan has criticized 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 a police officer has been detained over the face while shooting of a street performer francisco martinez romero was killed by police on friday his death has triggered mass protests and several public buildings have been set ablaze last in america as to listen human reports from santiago. the body of the latest victim of alleged police brutality in chile lies in week in

a low income neighborhood of santiago. 27 year old francisco mayor dennis roman or was a juggler a street artist who traveled around south america but met his end in a small lake side town in his home country then since he was a child he loved using his hands juggling he was an artist who never hurt anyone and he used thomas 10 sots for his acts martinez was shot dead after he charged a policeman who had 1st fired 2 warning shots at him during an argument over a routine identity kick it unleashed a new wave of outrage and vandalism in southern chile to the capital. while his body lay in wake street artists paid homage to magic devious was a delegation of indigenous mapuche is received special applause not about you guys getting me to kill francisco in broad daylight in front of a crowd of people it's not an isolated incident it's part of the police's mordor

surprise. in what appears to be a coincidence that dennis is family says the victim was the uncle of a 16 year old protester who was nearly killed last october when a policeman threw over a bridge into an almost dry river. as then the government has asked police for an exhaustive and quick investigation into the incident. people have been arriving all day from all over the capital not just to express their condolences to the family but also their determination to continue demonstrating until there is justice but given that the policeman who fired the 5 shots is insisting it was in self-defense there's no guarantee at this stage that there will be the verdict there all the people here are demanding. human rights monitors say only a fraction of the hundreds of officers accused of abuses have been tried and sentenced and guilty or not this killing has only added more fuel to the ongoing

social unrest in chile often inflamed by allegations of police brutality you see a human al-jazeera something out. and severe cold is sweeping through parts of europe the netherlands has been hit by its 1st may just those 2 in a decade forcing the government to close its coronavirus testing centers and in germany snowfall caused major travel disruptions while severe weather warnings have been issued across parts of the u.k. at him barbara reports from kent in southeast england. well here in the u.k. where there has been snowfall it's not been extremely heavy but it is settling and there are weather warnings in place for sunday and into monday morning for the whole of the london region the southeast including here in kent and the east of england part of stormy darcy that's continuing to come in from the east now over in belgium they've had light snow fall which has meant that people in

the capital brussels have been able to have snow ball fights and to go sledging next door in the netherlands it's been more worrying where the meterological agency has issued a code red warning with winds of up to 90 kilometers an hour and bitter cold the government has said they've had to close all covered 19 testing centers for several days and there are reports in the netherlands of scores of cause skidding off the roads or people being advised not to drive and train services on sunday morning were suspended the roads have been problems in germany mainly in the north from the west with the snow line almost a meter deep in some parts in the western city of minster. ambulances have not been able to get out and about a toll and similarly reports of hundreds of accidents well here in the u.k. the meterological experts are saying that this is not going to be as bad as what

they called the beast from the east back in 2018 but for several days there could be sometimes heavy snowfall for many more days to come right along the east side of great britain. amanda corman they are performed at present turbines and all gratian has become the 1st poet to open the super bowl today we honor our 3 captains present acts here and says you have laureate perform course of the captain's pay and play. 3 essential workers chosen as honorary captains to take the toss before kick off a prerecorded recital was played to a half full stadium due to current virus restrictions. and on the field the tampa bay buccaneers were crowned super bowl champions for the 1st time since 2003 veteran quarterback tom brady threw 3 touchdowns and the most valuable player as tampa eased to a 319 when over the kansas city chiefs as the 7th super bowl title. and

after weeks of man's record in team for all athletes here strangely an open tennis grand slam has held its 1st day of play and it follows months of controversy over the rules and organization needed to make the tournament happen under covert 1000 restrictions former champion angelica has blamed her 1st round loss on the isolation protocols many players were not allowed to leave their rooms to practice for 2 weeks because of a positive case was found on their flight to australia. with al-jazeera these are our top stories as wales prime minister has pleaded not guilty to charges of bribery fraud and a breach of trust benjamin netanyahu says he's the victim of what he calls an attempted coup or a force that is outside the court in occupied east.