algis there. where every. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu pleads not guilty to corruption charges just weeks ahead of elections. below them or a karl this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up signs of resistance from men miles military rulers as thousands demonstrate for a 3rd straight day. search and rescue efforts in northern india after a glass or collapse kills at least 11 people dozens more are still missing. and the

big business is accused of seizing land in nigeria pushing millions into poverty. israel's prime minister has pleaded not guilty to corruption charges benjamin netanyahu has appeared in court charged with bribery fraud and breach of trust in 3 separate cases he says he's the victim of what he calls an attempted coup let's go straight to howie for cities outside that course in occupied east jerusalem and harry netanyahu has been and gone from the court tell us what happened. that's right yes he was a good period in the court itself this is the 2nd time he's got to do so since it began in may last year he actually spoke in the courtroom confirming the written

response of his lawyers so in effect that is a not guilty plea but then followed the beginning of the lengthy argument between his noise or other on the back on the part of his lawyers on this there are trying to throw out the basis of the investigation against him that he only stuck through about 20 minutes or so of that before thanking the court should be walking out and leaving so another pretty dramatic moment. perhaps not as dramatic as the 1st time using court back in may when he gave a speech ahead of his entry basically decrying the entire investigation singling out members of one foresman and accusing them of a conspiracy against his leadership of a politically biased investigation trial and so what we've had in the interim is about an hour and a half of the legal team over the clinton you're trying to say that because in their opinion there was not a sufficiently robust approval by the attorney general of various elements of the

investigation the police started the investigation in the securities commission started the investigation and then got retrospective approval in their opinion but that means that in violated the basic law of israel in terms of protecting a prime minister from. non-approved investigation that doesn't seem to be a huge amount not sure if it's being given to that by the lawyers they've been telling the legal to even have you know to wrap up a few times and pushing back and get some of those arguments over that's where we are going to have an ok and has a small but very noisy group of protesters there behind you how closely are israelis watching this trial. or certainly it's it's it's a good the big news of the day it is being an issue this idea that the prime minister of the country is charged with fry fraud bribery and breach of trust and 3 separate cases the most serious of which is

a charge of media bribery trying to influence the coverage that he gets as prime minister of the country it's been the it's been up there and president 3 separate election campaigns that hasn't really moved the needle sufficiently to get netanyahu out of office he's managed to cobble together a coalition in the most recent election which is now for the modern obviously we have another election coming up on the 23rd of march the question really for the judges is whether they. decided to trying to build a case where netanyahu will have to be sitting. hearing evidence and hearing accusations under oath against him trying to get ahead of the election on march 23rd or after if it's ok to be election good for once these could have a significant age of greater ok harry many thanks. now police in miramar have used water cannon in the capsule naypyidaw to break up protests after thousands return to the streets for a 3rd day of demonstrations. 'd demonstrators have

grown increasingly bold in the weeks since the military seized power a civil disobedience campaigns evolved into all out strikes and protests last monday man was army ousted the democratically elected government and arrested civilian leader aung sun suu speak to scott hardly he's monitoring developments from bangkok and scott man must state t.v. seems to be issuing a series of warnings to the protesters what's it been saying. yes laura in a ticker on state run t.v. that's a word to go to the bottom of the screen saying that or a warning yes a veiled warning saying that legal action should be taken against the wrongdoers who are putting the stability of the nation at risk no it didn't really say who this message was coming from obviously it is it is targeting those protesters as tens of thousands of protesters we've seen now today on monday for a 3rd day it doesn't really have too much specifics in it which is very interesting

but yes it is definitely something that is clearly coming from from the military who to the leaders now of the country after the coup last monday morning so yes that is something coming out from them but what's interesting what the posture we have seen on the streets again 3 days 3rd day of these protests growing momentum and growing in size you know the posture of the security forces on the streets has been fairly relaxed we did see the water cannon used in april the capital briefly there was kind of a little bit of a push and push back and forth but it really wasn't used extensively but that's all we've really seen is a push back so maybe this is part of that slowly if we're going to see the authorities push back against the growing protest movement we've started to see a little bit but again it's not nothing that dramatic just yet and you know this this kind of veiled threat on state t.v. it wasn't like a special announcement anything it was just at the bottom of the screen briefly how likely is it then these protests is going to heed these warnings that all is there

a theme again such momentum that they will continue regardless. i think they will continue regardless quite honestly and as you mentioned the momentum is really really growing and when you see the people on the streets you hear the people on the streets you see the different groups of people that have joined this movement it is a protest movement and it's something interesting and young don that we saw marches from different parts of the city then met in the center part in the downtown area and a large crowd gathered there is civil disobedience movements going on now where they're encouraging people to leave work they're encouraging students to leave class and you have labor unions you have teachers so you have a lot of different people from a lot of different walks of life coming together so for them to respond to this kind of statement i think right now it's very very unlikely because there's so much momentum and because you have a lot of people from different walks of life and what they're saying and how

they're acting is quite defined at this stage so will be interesting to see how things move forward that certainly will keep following them closely scott for the moment thank you very much. now rescue crews in northern india are trying to reach the 5 as often part of a himalayan blast to collapse sending a torrent of water and debris down the valley at least 11 people have died and more than 200 others are missing the waters swept away 2 hydroelectric power plants and forced evacuation advantages and one con 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 fish dead. the operation is big and getting bigger some 2000 police paramilitary and military personnel are involved and they include specialists in mountain rescue search operations since they continue to lose 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 davies class year said to have broken off sending the torrents 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. south africa has suspended plans to vaccinate frontline health workers with the astra zeneca job after

a trial showed it might be less effective against the more contagious variant then that's cause the country's recent surge of 19 south africa will offer vaccines developed by johnson and johnson and finds a in the coming weeks also in south africa receive 1000000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine and was due to start vaccinating people in the next few days i mean a miller as in johannesburg and she says the government has already come under criticism for the slow vaccine rollout. 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 receive the $1000000.00 doses last week it's only on a rival 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 africans 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 successful 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. some of his opposition leaders say they no longer recognize the president mohamed are here for maggio's term has expired but when their agreement on elections to replace him an alliance of opposition can and won't accept an extension of his term through pressure. is monitoring developments from nairobi and sent this update. 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 town supposed to elect the president on the 8th of february today that that line has now been passed and these no indication whatsoever of what could happen next opposition presidential candidates a category called of they would not want to see an extension of president mohammed apply for modules mandate and him remaining in office saying is

a big no for them the some of them have been approaching the speaker of parliament who has scoffed at suggestions for him to become an interim president for period of 3 months now lives somalia in a situation of limbo the international community of the moment ease engaged in this period of diplomatic efforts to once again bring together the presidents of the regional for draw administrations and that vetting is supposed to take place in the coming days according to a diplomatic sources in mogadishu and if not all these a breakthrough then then the fate of the president himself has to be discussed to see whether he would be going on with his cut into the wall all that would be another interim administration as the presidential candidates from the opposition want. has head on out is there on haiti's president says an attempt to overthrow

the government has been filed. and china aims to vaccinate 15000000 people next week it may sound impressive but will tell you why experts say it's nowhere near in town. the showers are building again throughout the philippines that satellite picture would give it away what doesn't show quite so well is the rather lack of showers in the forecast for borneo and further west than symbolise here and sumatra because the concentration appears to be running for the south or into the easy job and eastwards right into west papua and it's just south the equator fairly wet as well for northern australia as a proper circulation you see in the satellite picture again giving it away now this

is desert area so fresh that territory really and that rain is moving across to western australia and stretches to tropical queensland that savage are all it's quite nice summary weather late summer on shore breeze been a shower stuff in new south wales maybe eastern victoria tasmania temperature wise in melbourne for the tennis players for the australian open it's getting warmer in about 30 by the time we get to wednesday same is true in adelaide in much of south australia but the perth that southerly breeze means you back down to 23 to dry and probably still damp which is maybe a good thing now for new zealand plenty of great year for science out and it's creeping up the coast is heading towards north on a bit ahead of it is a bit of a furnace effect breeze which means it's really going to be feeling quite warm in christchurch on tuesday. after more than a decade of civil war life remains a challenge in sierra leone. we follow the citizens of this war

torn nation as they push their limits. course avoid. risking years in sierra leone. on al-jazeera. the. other again you're watching are just there as 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. police in norfolk island 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 the rest of the country civilian leader unsung suchi. and south africa has suspended plans about snake frontline health workers with the astra zeneca job softer a trial showed it might be less effective against the more contagious variant as cause the country's recent surge in covert 19. the chinese government says it's a means of vaccinate 15000000 people as the lunar new year travel rush begins bass analysts warn that too few large numbers of people are expected to leave the chinese capital to travel home for the new gear health experts say as many as half a 1000000000 more have to receive a job to reach so-called herd immunity betray you reports from beijing. every day crowds of workers are being bussed into this beijing museum to receive

corporate 19 vaccinations the chinese government aid to vaccinate 15000000 people by the middle of this month. after vaccinating workers will move to ordinary people we asked made 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. 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 at the preparations for the 2022 winter olympics beijing has high hopes for the olympics and its vaccines will help improve its international image in the wake of the penn demick. but while 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 you al-jazeera beating is president joe biden says he will not lift sanctions to get iran back to the negotiating table on its nuclear program and if. the move would only happen if tehran stops and wishing uranium for president donald trump withdrew from the 2050 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 there have been counseled 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 socialist economist under. the pole in the 1st round of acquittals

presidential elections held face a runoff in april the reports. despite the pandemic ecuadorians flocked to polling stations in record numbers on sunday to choose a new president early results indicate serious 6 year old socialist economist and the race 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 to victory minutes after the polls closed this is what i don't think i need you could do or in peoples who have solutions now there are many changes that must be made ready to work for a country to work for a homeland of this resuming victory people have given us. but his main rival conservative ex banker guillermo last saw 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 ecologist 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 in 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 is 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 us dollars in direct cash payments to families affected by that and then make in a return to the socialist policies promoted by his mentor what most analysts agree on is that whoever wins will have to prove he can offer real solutions to a country on edge i listened to. a police officer has been detained in the face or shooting of a street performer relatives and friends have gathered in the capital for the wake of francisco. he was killed by police on friday his death has triggered large protests against police brutality. more than 20 people have been arrested in haiti for an alleged coup plus have meant a dispute over the president's term limits general moya's says the group that simply needs a supreme court judge and a senior police official have been planning for months to kill him when he reports

. the other day of protests in port au prince opposition supporters continue their calls for the resignation of president should know. because they wanted to do or said 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 or drive. thank you to all my security guards thank god they're planted and work our 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 arrest of opposition members including a supreme court judge in id be

a judge's 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 him to patsy 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 here. the arrests come on the day that opposition leaders see the president's mandate in office was supposed to end well everything i'm hearing from he 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've 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 government and if called for more demonstrations. in nigeria is

pushing millions of people into poverty according to activists experts say it's largely because of corruption confiscations and how results is distributed. been uncovered. in 7 years. has $4.00 to $16.00 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 courts. succeeded in the land from his aunt. who are not apart from that from the dead in abject poverty and. equally among the politicians. he says many land owners and witnesses

are being intimidated into silence. across nigeria there is a huge demand for land for housing projects and in distribute it. in many cases developers used force to encroach upon farmland and evict poor farmers from the old things. what can i use of chose to sell 2 of these 3 forms rather than lose them all the women of. the rich people invade our villages and use their enormous amounts of money to convince or even 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 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 we close and corruption the land use decree itself allows people to. parcels of land which then are fenced off so that poor people are increasingly being pushed to the margins ones who fence of the land they push off who are these poor people poor farmers poor hardest who are increasingly being pushed would imagine of society as a. concept. developers economics that the odds favor the rich but say most often it's the poor who approach biased sauce. very. serious or. money or a right. so that as a challenge so you're really is a challenge for. us is you know is this. personally

. or less your group the religion. we develop now goes. i mean. activists warn that unless the government puts an end to unrestrained and sometimes illegal acquisitions nigeria could soon face conflict bigger than those the country is currently dealing with but it recent al-jazeera britain keep. it with al-jazeera these are our top stories as well as prime minister has created not guilty to charges of bribery fraud and preach of trust benjamin netanyahu says he's the victim of what he calls an attempted coup are a force that is outside the courts and occupied when a story. the prime minister of israel benjamin netanyahu for the 1st time on string .