if the predicament by converting to other faiths such as islam or christianity to be g.o.p. controlled state to go to predation as prepared or not to conversion law under which religious conversion would require permission from a state official human rights groups say the lords aimed at keeping ballots in their place. the way. al-jazeera. this is a news hour live from our world headquarters in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes signs of resistance from myanmar's military rulers as thousands demonstrate for a 3rd straight day. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu pleads not guilty to corruption charges just weeks before elections also this hour of finding survivors

in the himalayas a search and rescue operation is underway in northern india after a glacier collapse triggers flash floods and south africa suspends its coronavirus vaccination rollout program amid concerns the astra zeneca job isn't effective against a highly infectious trade. i'm joining us roscoe with sports as tom brady racks up yet another super bowl title the quarterback has now won 7 of them but this time it's with the tampa bay buccaneers who beat the can see chiefs in their own stadium . thank you very much for joining as we begin with myanmar where authorities are beginning to crack down on public displays of defiance against the military coup that took place a week ago police turned water cannon on people in the capital naypyidaw.

thousands have returned to the streets for a day of demonstrations as a civil disobedience campaign has grown into strikes and mass protests last monday myanmar's ami al said the democratically elected government and arrested say they need to sochi rights groups say dozens of people including activists of lead the growing demonstrations have been detained live to his car following the situation in myanmar for us from a bank called so the protests a growing scott and state television has issued a warning to the protestors what are they saying they have definitely fallen there we just heard that you know not only have they said that they'll go through legal channels to prosecute anyone who is disrupting the stability in the country because any wrongdoing that leads to disruption in the country talking about the protesters but also we've heard that the police in april where we saw those water cannon used earlier in the day that's kind of the 1st time we've seen

any real pushback by security forces against these growing protest movement particularly over the weekend we saw tens of thousands seeing that again today on monday so that was really kind of the 1st physical pushback we saw and then now we're hearing that the police is warning those protesters enabled or neighbors or the capital that if they don't disperse peacefully it will be done by force that's the 1st time we've really kind of heard that we do need to know that you know these massive protests over the weekend they did disperse peacefully but there really wasn't this kind of confrontation we've seen with police so be interesting to see how how resilient the protesters are going to be and how patient the security force will be right so how likely is it that the protesters will indeed heed this warning i know you've been speaking to people on the ground how determined on day to keep this going. they're exceptionally determined to keep it going i think what needs to be looked at more and more deeply is the organization of the protest

movement and these civil disobedience movements the strikes and the unions in the different sectors of civilians in myanmar coming out to the streets how well they're coordinating and that's really going to be i think a critical element when it comes to dealing with the security forces in them taking a harder posture so in other words do you have someone that kind of leading the group saying are look we've done we've done today let's back off so we can do it again tomorrow or are there going to be some more resolute feelings and the protesters want to want to stay there so that's what we're probably going to see actually be looked at pretty closely over the coming hours and days to see how that is actually organized you know we say organized increasing momentum in organization over the last several days but nothing when it came to really this leaders out and orchestrating how things were moving it was more kind of strikes by certain unions health care workers coming out students striking teachers union striking so it will

be using to see particular when you come to a situation where there has been mild confrontation with security forces how they're organized and how they will move things forward thank you very much scott hyder with the need to stay on the situation in myanmar from bangkok. and now the world news israel's prime minister has pleaded not guilty to corruption charges many minutes now as appeared in court charged with bribery fraud and breach of trust and 3 separate cases he says his the victim of what he calls an attempted cool let's get them. in occupied east jerusalem for as so harry a very brief court appearance find it's now today tell us what happened. that's right yesterday in the jerusalem district court here the proceedings are still going on. legal team has been arguing against the legitimacy of the investigation against him but now you know him self only stayed for about 20 minutes worth of that argument and he did speak in the courts he didn't say the

words not guilty what he said was that he confirmed the written submission of his legal team so essentially it's the same thing that the legal team arguing that the attorney general did not give proper full written approval for all the phases of the investigations in the 3 cases against him the judges pushed back a little bit on that and also against the length of time the legal team was taking to make that argument and also push back a little bit against the prosecution when they were defending the investigation against those allegations and just in the last few minutes we've heard that the most serious of the 3 cases against him so-called case 4000 in which he's accused of bribery media bribery that will be the 1st of the main evidentiary phase hearings that the witness part of the trial that will be the 1st up and it is in that case you know faces the most serious charges accused of offering massive

deregulate 3 benefits to one of in israel's most influential businessmen and the the largest telecoms company in exchange for favorable media coverage on this the websites that the same individual owed so that is the 1st case that we're going to hear when the real guts of this trial gets under way and how closely watching retire harry and how right more people will influence the upcoming elections and much. well this will be i think the key question and one of the most important decisions to be made for inside the court today will be exactly the timing of this main evidentially phase of the trial because that is the time during which netanyahu as we understand things now will be expected to sit in the court room not like today just 20 minutes but listening to these allegations 3 days a week under oath and what could be very damaging allegations against him if the

court decides to start those witness hearings those those those witness such things of the trial before the march 23rd election then for once the corruption trial could significantly move the needle up until now netanyahu in the previous 3 elections which have been so inconclusive in the last couple of years he's managed to retain his core support he's fallen short of a workable coalition majority in the israeli parliament the knesset but his core supporters remain solid he hasn't moved that much if this happens on the eve of the election with these damaging allegations being heard in court will that shift the needle thank you harry for that how if i said live there in occupied east jerusalem . rescue crews in northern india are trying to reach survivors after part of a himalayan glaciers collapsed sending a torrent of water and debris down a valley and the 7 people have died and more than 200 on missing the water swept

away 2 hydroelectric power plants and force evacuation of villages imran khan has an interest. rescue workers are still trying to find the dozens who are missing 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 glass here said to have broken off sending the torrent surging down the mountain and through narrow valleys below. then on the 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. well scientists studying himalayan glaciers have warned increasing global temperatures are speeding up the rate of ice loss that's causing the development of glacial ponds which can hold millions of cubic metres of water they want governments and agencies to pay more attention to the risks satellite images of the hydroelectric project. show the change in ice cover on the surrounding glaciers over the past 4 years from early february 27000 to february 28th in the region experience a gradual increase in the surface area of ice coverage that continued throughout

29000 before rapidly expanding in the winter of 2022 what can be seen here but within just the past year all of that newly gained ice cover has melted away al-jazeera is elizabeth has more from rishikesh in constant on the rescue effort. rescue personnel have just begun working on a tunnel near the top of one they had to stop work on sunday night because of a rise in the ocean level this is a 900 meter long tunnel that around 30 workers are believed to be trapped and they were only able to dig about 150 meters of the tunnel before stopping work on sunday night they just restarted the work again because of the rise in the roof from level people along the riverbank inch or more to the district who remain have once again pushed on police say they believe most of the people who are missing worked on hydro electric power plants one is that van dam there are 125 workers who are

still missing at another one at the power plant the flooding that happened on sunday actually swept away a. that's used to divert. and there are a lot of questions being asked about why hydroelectric power plants would be constructed in such ecologically sensitive areas there are also a team of scientists making their way to the non the. to ascertain exactly what happened because there's different language being used to describe what happened what caused the floods and critics and experts are saying that if it was indeed a portion of the number they replace here which broke all of the people in the region should have been forewarned about the devastating flooding that would follow there's lots more on this news hour including a vaccine ring has been shut down in china undermining confidence in vaccine safety

just as regulates as looks to approve. the olive trees in these libyan mountains might not have the years old but the tradition of pressing their oil certainly has and the cats wearing serena williams is back to her back. she launches her campaign for the 24th grand slam title and. that's coming up in sports which are at the at the a at 1st the south africa has suspended plans to vaccinate frontline health workers with the astra zeneca job that's after a trial showed it might be less effective against a more contagious variant cause a recent surge in south africa involving 19 vaccines made by johnson and johnson and pfizer will be used instead in the coming weeks south africa received 1000000 astra zeneca doses last week and was used to start inoculations in just

a few days study by johnny spreads of its university shows today doses of the oxford. vaccine provide minimal protection against mild to moderate infections of the south african variant early data appears to confirm that the study's author has noted work is underway to produce a 2nd generation of the vaccine to target variants of covered 19. is in johannesburg and says the government had 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 efficacies 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 $1000000.00 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 south 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 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. in london so neither house astra zeneca reacting to the south african government's decision to suspend its tanks in. well essentially the oxford university astra zeneca team are confirming what the researchers in south africa are saying according to preliminary data oxford university ses the still needs to be peer reviewed the full details to come in the coming days yes indeed the oxford asked astra zeneca vaccine is minimally effective against people with mild forms of the virus what oxford have confirmed is though that the research did not assess people with serious infection serious strains of the 19 south african strain but the hope is given that the research carried out in south africa suggests that they could still be an impact on reducing the number of people needing serious treatment or ending up in hospital it

still has a degree of effectiveness and still should be administered there is a right of light here in the message from the oxford team is that the existing vaccines could indeed be tweaked and very quickly without the need for a large clinical trial afterwards it appears and we've known this for some time that they take over 19 virus will mutate that is an inevitable so the challenge is being faced by astra zeneca the teams there are likely to be faced by other vaccine produces not necessarily against the south africa strain but against other strains as they emerge and the question is really how quickly existing vaccine produces a researches can adapt to that changing reality here in the u.k. specifically the government are desperately trying to ally concerns about the effectiveness of the vaccine rollout process that's been very very successful the message very much that the oxford astra zeneca vaccine is still extremely effective

against the dominant strains present in the u.k. but concerns are growing about how rapidly in the south africa strain is spreading last week according to the government there $105.00 cases because of the lag in which cases are trying to track to. and reported that number is expected to be high and expected to be more widespread with the government to do it at the moment what they describe as search testing taking place in areas where that strain is popping up one of them in north london where research is a going door to door trying to find out exactly where the strain is out all this up and what it basically means is that despite how quickly the vaccine rollout happens here in the u.k. if it is proven in the coming weeks south africa strain is prevalent in british society that may well of course have a knock on effect on how quickly we can start to even talk about easing restrictions and getting back to normal thank you for that need in london let's

discuss this further now with dr helen reese who is a member of south africa's ministerial advisory committee for coal there to end the covert vaccine she's eyes come from johannesburg dr rhee serry good to have you with us on the al-jazeera news hour so south african authorities made this decision to suspend the astra zeneca vaccine the data showing that the vaccine is i believe about 10 percent effective against the south african variant of coffee 19 so it provides no significant protection from what i understand but the cases on the disease were mild or moderate according to the studies so is in some coverage better than no coverage at all. it's a very good question and i think the 1st thing we should say because obviously we've heard then from there from the u.k. is that this is effective against other variants so this was a very important study it was a small number of people and it was a young which meant that just in terms of the natural history not many of them were

anyway going to get severe disease that means the only thing that it could show was that there is only this very limited impact on prevention of mild or moderate disease but there were no severe cases so the question is could this vaccine still have an impact on severe cases and the other question being asked is can the vaccine be tweaked to be responsive to the variance of the answer is yes to that and the 3rd question being asked is can this vaccine be combined with another vaccine so that you have to choose different vaccines that do what we call prime and boost so you stimulate the immune system at 2 different points in time and you do it with slightly different back sins so there are many questions still to be arsed why so why the government decided to suspend the vaccine altogether. well at the moment because of the lack of efficacy and it was a south african cohort small as it was it would have been very hard to justify

putting that out to your highest just health care workers in the absence of additional data so we have a meeting today to both local and international scientists to ask the question what is the what is the additional data that we would need to see fortunately we're looking to urgent if you're going to get hold of other vaccines to other vaccines have been shown to have because the against the variant one is the johnson and johnson vaccine and the other is the noble backs and jane jerry did a sizable study in south africa across age groups and was able to show and effectiveness against the barrier but also against severe disease so there are options that have been rapidly sought something natural rollout is not delayed but it will be with the the asters anika but in the meantime you say it's not delayed but in the meantime you have a 1000000 doses of this astra zeneca vaccine that are set to expire in april what

will the south african government do with them will they offer them to the kovacs scheme to another country what's going to happen to these doses. not to the covert scheme would be very complex because you would have to then be able to arrange a shipment to take them to another country they would have to be not tested in that country that their quality would have to be controlled which takes a little bit of time again and as you say with that the shelf life is limited so i don't think that it's really a practical or feasible option instead of that what we're doing as scientists and commission is we're saying could we use these that. in a way that would generate data for example on severity. of these that seems to be used and then included with a booster vaccine at the end. and could we use them for example for people who would otherwise not have access to the to a vaccine this year because of the limited supplies of that. monitoring very

closely forth verity for safety to see whether in fact these that since do have a positive benefit for severe disease and or whether they can be combined with other vaccines that is all very much under discussion and it's an urgent discussion because as you say time ticks very quickly that it does thank you very much dr helen reese for talking to us about this thank you. now the chinese government is aiming to vaccinate 50000000 people by next week analysts say that's too few and scientists say at least 500000000 people need to get the job to read so-called herd immunity against over 19 and the world health organization says it's assessing chinese made vaccines for emergency use to train a year reports from beijing. every day crowds of workers are being bussed into this beijing museum to receive carpet 19 decks of nations the chinese government aims 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 for 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 program 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. china vaccine a 50000000 people by be february. but it doesn't mean much is only one 3rd taste of total population maybe only after $500000000.00 inoculated will see the difference

china afford to relax there are also fears beijing want have enough doses for its one point $4000000000.00 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 elysia and donating millions more to allies including pakistan. the discovery of a counterfeit vaccine ring 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 up vaccines out of the national people's congress the nation's largest leaders gathering in march at the preparations for the 2022 winter olympics. 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 new al-jazeera. still ahead on the news hour millions pushed to poverty in nigeria following corruption and confiscation of land from the war the opposition says it has overstayed his constitutional welcome but eighty's president says there's been a coup attempts. and a mexican team make history a defeat that crime world cup in qatar that's coming up in sports but just to start us.

there is a cold east wind blowing across northern europe has been doing so for days is shut down transported in germany the netherlands it's maybe a bit more fun in parts of eastern england verney facade in that state right down to the beach in klaxon which is on the coast of east in england that the destructive stuff is probably hard continental europe rather more obvious a good part of germany the netherlands has seen this sort of weather indeed this is 1st time in 10 years or significant snowstorm in the netherlands there is more to come and it's this bright white cloud that more or less shows where it is it seems to be want to be going northwards which is really taking it into the really cold territory so you got a feed of the atlantic averaging all this what i can answer eastern europe and at the moment it's relatively warm in for example hungary and much colder it lets you endure and this cold is what we watching recently but the forecast takes the snow in the northeast was direction and keeps the wind blowing to some degree was it

starts to rain in spain and france and you think well this might succeed but i think not next day or so whilst warsaw's shows or gives a hint it's cold and it snows that cold is tucking back down into eastern europe so vienna then goes subzero once wore deep into winter. in the canaries what is the situation. doctor and one nurse. informed opinion. of the. inside story. when the going gets.

forced to. but make no mistake. the e.u. . you're watching the news hour on al-jazeera with me fully back hebrew a reminder of our top stories police in myanmar have warned on type 2 demonstrators

to leave or they'll be dispersed by force earlier they turned water cannon on people in the capital maybe this is the 3rd day of major street demonstrations since the military coup one week ago today israel's prime minister has bee did not guilty to charges of bribery fraud and breach of trust as he has made his corruption trial resumed 20 minutes now says his the victim of an attempted coup. and rescue operations continue in northern india to locate about 200 people missing after a himalayan glaciers collapse at least 11 bodies have been recovered the gracious sent a torrent of water rushing down on friday. night in another reversal of donald trump foreign policies u.s. president joe biden's administration times to rejoin the un human rights council earlier this week biden vowed to put an end to trump's isolationist policies and declared diplomacy is back pulled out of the human rights council in 2018 calling

it a hypocritical organization that was hostile towards israel. president biden meanwhile says he will not lift sanctions to get iran back to the negotiating table during a television interview biden suggested that that would only happen if tehran stop saying reaching uranium former president trying to withdraw from the 2015 iran nuclear deal that led to tehran rolling back on commitments iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali how many says tehran will only return to compliance if the us 1st lifted all of its economic sanctions. the one that has the right to set conditions for continuation of the g. c.p.o. a is iran because from the beginning iran has met all of its commitments they violated their commitments we have the right to set the conditions if they want iran to return to the chase e.p.o. commitments the u.s. must remove all sanctions and not just in words and on paper they must remove all

sanctions in practice then they will return to our commitments this is the definite policy of the islamic republic and all are running officials agree with that and we won't change this policy heidi castro is in washington she says biden has bipartisan support on the decision not to lift sanctions. 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 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 bill lawrence is a professor of international relations at the american university in washington and a former diplomat he says iran's upcoming elections may complicate efforts to get tehran back to the negotiating table. there's no direct talks behind the scenes but they're definitely in direct talks behind the scenes going on and even offer support on the table and i think the europeans are the main intermediaries in this discussion their working term i've been hearing by behind the scenes talks is compliance for compliance and they get the 2 sides back into the g c p we is few new conditions is possible this is not easy but it's the easiest way to get things

moving forward right now we're having negotiation by megaphone all through the pronouncements by the supreme leader and by biden and that's no way to get anywhere the main operative variable right now is the iranian elections and there was a meeting of the national security council on friday about whether or not to try to push for some sort of a agreement on re-entry before or after the june elections in iran because already the iranian parliament and you know campaign conversations are making things more problematic former u.s. secretary of state george shultz who played a key role in helping to end the cold war has died at the age of 100 shows held several cabinet posts over his long career but made the most impact leaving the state department under president ronald reagan he helped cement a historic nuclear missile treaty with moscow and remained a strong advocate for honest control. to nigeria now where the scramble for scale

is pushing millions of people into poverty according to activists and 20. in the as a country with the largest number of people living in extreme poverty experts say it's largely because of corruption land confiscations and how resources on distributed. reports from kepe. in 7 years one certainly has 40 least 16 court cases of land been 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 i handle a case where local traditionally. used area courts. succeeded in. front he sent us who are not apart from that far and then dead in abject poverty and many

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 things. what shall i use of chose to sell 2 or 3 forms rather than lose them the women of. the rich people invade the 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 arbonne a zation but as rich and powerful nigerians buy up more land experts here that the government and the poor 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 used to create itself allows people to. brussels 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 to the magine of society as a lot of these concepts. developers economics that the odds favor the rich but say most often it's the poor who approach bias the sauce. you us is very serious or social. or a rights. so that as a challenge so you're really is a challenge for all of us is you know is that you.

personally is the. all this group related. we develop. life. i mean. activists want that unless the government puts an end to unrestrained and sometimes illegal acquisitions nigeria could soon face conflicts bigger than those the country is currently dealing with but it reece al-jazeera branding cable. so money is opposition leaders say they no longer the leaders rather say they no longer recognize a president mahmud up to life armand just term has expired but with no agreement on elections to replace them and alliance 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 mahmoud i do is monitoring developments from nairobi

and has 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 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 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 the 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 lives. in a situation of limbo the international community of the moment ease engaged in this

period to diplomatic efforts to once again bring together the presidents of the regional for draw administrations and that 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 current to roll all the would be another interim administration the presidential candidates from the opposition want . in haiti more than 20 people have been arrested over and. made a dispute over the president's term the opposition says his 5 year term expired on sunday but says he's got another year as president by now reports. the other day of protests in port au prince opposition supporters continue their

calls for the resignation of president should know. because they had 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 morey's 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 in 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 idea should 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 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 opposite. leaders have vowed to continue to put pressure on the mores government and if called for more demonstrations and. a socialist economy. has topped the poor in the 1st round of ecuador spends it and actions but he'll face a problem. 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 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 at oust claimed victory minutes after the polls closed this is public but i don't think us . during 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. people have given us but his main rival conservative ex 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 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 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 houses promising if elected to make $1000000000.00 u.s.

dollars in direct cash payments to families affected by that and then make and 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. over centuries of changing civilizations were mentioned and cultures in libya the small mountain town of muscle. on the same industry pressing on oil. so the people carrying on that tradition. in the mountainous small town of them so let's about 100 kilometers southeast of tripoli the people here live and breathe all of the good guess the all the tree is one of 50 varieties that are specific to this town known for their large size an abundance of fruit they are picked twice during the olive season here all of those have been grown for thousands of years and their oil

extract it will some a works for the archaeological committee he says these ruins are of an olive oil factory built by the romans over 2000 years ago he was brought in so lots of by the phoenicians later the romans began exporting all of oil that was produced here from the ancient city of leptis magna we run perscribe to texan libya of 3 to 400000 liters annually the all of harvest is a special time of the year for people here this is perhaps the most traditional method of processing all of oil and almost every household in the town of them so that's if you can find an area like this where all those are crossed by her and family members enjoy time together miffed has fond memories of growing up and making all of oil that hasn't got. my grandmother would sit and we would take turns crushing the all of us it was fun and we would drink tea and all of it with bread

of course the olive oil made by hand is much higher quality than the factories. arabic word for all of the oil factor they've developed through stages over the centuries here all of their grinded with these mechanical wheels the pace is then. put on just and through pressure but will is extract it and usually sold by the leader salim has researched the variety of all lives in libya for decades he received a ph d. in the us in agriculture he then came back to me and started this all of oil factory it's one of the more advanced factories here. in the town of them salada olive oil has a special meaning it's celebrated every family here spends the months of november to march harvesting all of us to make will each of them have different techniques. and silat has for the most part been untouched by violence in the years of conflict

in libya that's because here and during the harvest all lives and the quality of oil they produce is the only thing that matters malik traina al-jazeera and so a lot of. assume ahead on al-jazeera mantissa city boast of their hopes of winning the premier league with the flashing on the current champion still have the details in sports next.

or will. force a history of folly thank you very much tom brady has done it again at 43 years old

his want to record extending 7th super bowl title and this time with a different team he led tampa bay buccaneers to a dominant victory over the kansas city chiefs david stocks reports. the chiefs were defending champions and favorites heading into super bowl 55 but they were up against 6 time when a tom brady and his new tampa bay team were the 1st franchise ever to play a superbowl at the home stadium 25000 people were allowed inside including 7 and a half 1000 health care workers. the 1st points went to kansas city but it was all tampa after that brady setting up his former new england patriots teammate rob brown koski for the 1st touchdown the many helped persuade out of retirement to join the books and it wasn't long before the path teamed up again for another touchdown to send them further clarified they had 3 by half time brady combining

with another old patriots friend antonio brown they were 216 ahead at the break oh . the weekend was the start of the halftime show which had a different feel the shit with his dances building social distancing in face masks into their performance the bucs dominance continued in the 2nd half and they were singing out of sight when leonard for a net broke cliff a touchdown and before sealing the title for tampa and super bowl number 7 for brady at age 6 with the patriots which means that he alone now has more than any single friend choices for does this right is this the crowning achievement not quite many make any comparisons i know being down here and experiencing it with this group of guys is every year is amazing and this team is world champions forever you can't take that away from us so it would be before there were concerns pre-game that fans gathering to watch would lead to a spike in coated 19 cases but that didn't stop these tampa funds from celebrating

their 1st title since 2002 i was proud earlier but saw their baby bump give us some tears on live t.v. break it down far cry until. i get to right now. bill the earlier i had 0 aren't i don't argue crack tom brady wins it again next year that i make you cry and there right now yes yes i did actually take it back to lowball a bagel ball at 43 years old in 188 days brady is already the oldest player to ever play in a super bowl and it appears he's not done yet we're coming back because i don't know that david stokes al-jazeera. serena williams said she was inspired by brady after winning how opening match of the australian open the 39 year old american debuted an eye catching one legged cat as she stepped out to face laura's take him and in melbourne on monday it took i just 56 minutes to secure a 6161 victory and for the small unlost crowd serena who was chasing

a record equalling 24th grand slam spoke about brady after that victory. oh absolutely he's he's amazing and you know to be competing at the i mean for us like the one of the biggest championships in the world. it's. at 43 is unheard of you know it's super inspiring for me and my right young age. 30 something so yeah. u.s. open champion am also made it through to the 2nd round the number 3 seed dropped just 3 games as she beat us does he have published chunk of a in straight sets both for soccer and williams showed no signs of the shoulder injuries that forced him to withdraw from ben's last week. but 3 time grand slam champion angelica is out the number 23 seed was beaten in straight sets by american but not the para but they form a champion has said spending 2 weeks in hard quarantine ahead of the slam

contributed to that loss. was not playing the 2 weeks hard current team and i don't know maybe if i knew that before to stay really 2 weeks in the hard current one without hitting the ball maybe i would think twice about that if you play really match where it counts and you play the 1st matches in the grand slam and also against opponents who doesn't stay in the heart lock down. in the men's draw of the 3rd seed dominic team has won his opening match the australian beat mikhail could push him in straight sets and the 60 alexanders there is also 3 . degrees have made history at the fifa club world cup so the 1st mexican team to reach the final to beat south american champions made us one nil after they were awarded a penalty in the 2nd half andre appears in york with the only goal from spots for the north american champions. will take on either by in munich or me in the final

the germans are the european champions and to the tournament as favorites but african title holders are actually a planning an upset and the ritchson reports. hourly have won the african champions league a record 9 times but never before have the egyptian side reached the final of the club world cup in 2006 did finish 3rd to improve on that this generation of players have to defeat european champions by in munich we know in the world cup we've won or test measure in the semifinals we're broke listen very well if you ask any team in the continent of africa. no one has done what we have done. by ns relentless schedule meant they were in german league action on friday before flying straight to cats off of his semifinal a hectic timetable not helped by

a 7 hour delay at berlin airports this can offer steam it is annoying and i can't understand it i wasn't too amused about it to be stuck on a plane we were there on time to make it very clear we were on time at the plane we were ready to depart on time i can't explain why it happened. the team have now had a much needed stretch ahead of the final leg of what could be an unprecedented trophy sweep. a title win here in doha will give behind the perfect collection of 6 trophies for the very 1st time that includes the german bundesliga german cup german super cup wait for champions league wife a super cup and now possibly the club world cup as well as some of the vine and super kings when now it is regarded as a top trophy in germany bookbinding will want to win it because they won everything if they win this they become only the 2nd team behind barcelona to swipe all 6 trophies on offer to them so it will be a real test for them and i think you ask any player they want that little gold box

in the center of the show tells them that their best in the world and buying what muckluck bunch back again. to stop by an hour early will have to become the 1st ever african seemed to beat european opponents at this tournament and the richardson al-jazeera doha. man city have extended their lead in the premier league after thrashing the current champions liverpool they won $41.00 away from home at anfield including 2 goals from l.k. . philip thought in a cell phone and form a level player against the other goals a victory move city 5 points clear of manchester united's in the title race. it's been 18 months since 4 time major champion brooks kept her last one on the p.g.a. golf tour but. american remedy that on sunday chip in for an eagle on the 17th in the final round of the phoenix open he finished on the 19th on the paula shock play of his nearest rivals all right that is useful for now have all 3 later folly joe

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