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more than 100 missing after a grace or a burst sending a flood of water down a valley. on elizabeth for autumn in the town of joshi month where these humanitarian rescue and recovery operations are being coordinated from donald trump's lawyers lay out their defense and make a case for why his 2nd impeachment trial should not take place south africa delays its covert 19 vaccination campaign after a study shows that astra zeneca provides less protection from the strain that's appeared in the country. and on peta stem to those who support tom brady read yet another super bowl title the quarterback has now won several of them but this time it's with the temple bay buccaneers to be prepared for the chiefs in their own stadium. welcome to the news hour. i mean mars military gentle has banned gatherings and

imposed a curfew in several areas it's intended to stop growing protests earlier a military leader klang promised to hold elections and hand over to whoever wins he sees power in a coup one week ago he accused the country's democratic leaders of failing to carry out their duties and if using the coronavirus pandemic to rig planned elections he spoke hours after tens of thousands of protesters returned to the streets of me and maher i did go to the cinema in accordance with the constitution when we build our democracy no one is above the law it should be the basic fact that should be considered firstly in a democracy and it is also important to the foundation of the improvement of the country system when we have completed the emergency law we will continue to proceed under the 2008 constitution to hold a multi-party election and we will hand over the power to the one who wins the election according to the rules of democracy. well demonstrators are risking

violence and their arrests a call for the government to release democratically elected leaders detained in the scott either reports. i the 1st pushback from myanmar security forces on the growing number of protesters burst from water cannon and in attempt to disperse some of the thousands who gathered in the capital neighborhood. this is the 3rd day of mass rallying against a military coup one week ago a civil disobedience movement has been called encouraging people to skip work and school to head out and protest they're demanding that deposed civilian leader on song suchi and the more than $160.00 elected leaders supporters and activists most who were detained during the early hours of the coup be released immediately. like at the weekend when tens of thousands gathered in cities across the country waving the colors of su cheese and the party and flying the 3 finger salute now a symbol of the movement the protests and calls for civil disobedience have become

more organized in the days since last week's overthrow with momentum building labor unions civil servants teachers buddhist monks and students have all taken to the streets for the good i don't know and you know we are an engine is unique and we are not going to allow this military dictatorship to pass on to our next generation and we will continue our protest until this dictatorship fails we have already looked down on by other asian people and others around the world for growing up in an education system and the military room made a strong turnout was one of those recently detained by officials he was serving as an advisor to aung sang suu kyi we have called for the immediate release of australian citizen professors shown to nil from the detention in. our embassy has been providing a face eternal with extensive support during this ordeal he is a highly regarded adviser a holler god member of the academic community. there are signs the military is

growing frustrated with the demonstrations a message on state t.v. warned of actually being taken against those who break the law. everyone has the right to speak freely living in the country put those kinds of freedom shouldn't disturb others it should allow others to have different opinions but these days people are disturbing and even threatening others by breaking laws while climbing it's democracy if we don't follow the rules and regulations our democracy can get damaged legal action should be taken against those who commit acts that harm the state stability public safety and the rule of law. some supporters are determined to show their dedication to the cause one group tattooing a line of an old revolutionary song on their arms that reads we won't forget until the end of the world it's got our jazeera let's make 2 of us ok shuster it was an associate fellow in the asia pacific program at the foreign affairs think tank chatham house is joining us from dubai thanks for your time with us on al-jazeera i

wonder if you had the chance to hear the military general when he addressed the people of myanmar and if so what did you make of his tone and was 1st public remarks essentially a sense the coup. ok thanks for having me i think this is really a sign that the men mar ami the gentleman who was doing part of week ago are really struggling to figure out the appropriate political response and. they probably very surprised with the extent of protests all over the country that they probably calculated that they would be protesting younger on the stronghold of the of the n l d but to see protests taking place call over the country in the 1st team fashion much calmer shock for the general and i think today's speech i see it really as a concession. to the generals repeating the message that they had stated last week about elections in the u.s. time they're trying to figure out

a ray perhaps off of building public support so this you know the 1st 2 days may have gone by the role for the generals in terms of the ability of consolidating political power but certainly since the protests started it's gone in a completely different direction so they're actually in the ready political position but nothing like the 1st degree gained stay protesters in any way because they also did say that they would take action against those who quote unquote break the law. but there are 2 things to look at these protests you know the self talk and i've heard so that clearly there is an. organizing principle of the national league of democracy and long term coochie who are all in jail you know they're probably expecting support from behind bars but there's really nobody on the street organizing protests of self organizing protests which makes it all the more difficult for the army you know they've used the police police for the last few

days abuse water cannon now whether they are prepared to. take the kind of military action that myanmar generals have taken in the past if they took part in 162 they certainly took part in 188 but the world i would argue has changed and you know even myanmar supporter one example is china offering very tepid response took a trip port here but the military action here is a thing on china specifically as a difficult for the international community to know how to react in the situation given china as passed unconditional support for the military in the past. well i think the miramar. and china probably have a love hate relationship. it signified with the fact that china at the beginning but then the infrastructure of the country well but more recently the generals have

been on the happy. offering covert support to put some of the insurgency groups in myanmar so in it's a complicated relationship with china not so the fact that china has not come out wholeheartedly support the action the fact that china says men marshalled support the rule of law and democracy should really turn as that there probably have been too robert unity international cooperation in really pushing reading the gender but with the right level of international support for the united kingdom to the sheep community. perhaps can take a step or 2 backward and and return to the mcready constitution how what shape that is going to take a very very difficult to see at this stage yeah 2 i mean the country is facing enormous challenges not only this coup of course but also covered 19 there's poverty there's there's ethnic tension i mean what is your reading so all of.

i would say that because of corporate banking obviously the impact on live live lives and live behold has been to be a man march currently under them i.m.f. program $700000000.30 of which was only the bush 2 weeks ago so you know needs a level of international support today but it makes it extremely vulnerable i mean for the open question is will china come out and you know write a check for $400.00 or $500000000.00 to support the general in the. foot to rich control over the democratic process you know that's an open question to me in march today and really realize meetings about these communities compared with any other time in the. 30 years ago the country was pretty much shut off from the rest of the world it was not integrated with the global economy to the extent.

me and moderates today i would argue that because of the humanitarian impact 19 because of the fact that konami done damage but there is some scope for the international community to exercise leverage and influence all right of how such a strain thank you so much for speaking to us from to borrow thanks for having me. rescue operations are underway in northern india for a more than 30 people trapped in a tunnel a day after a part of the himalayan glaciers collapsed at least 20 bodies have been recovered while around 200 people remain missing elizabeth purana reports from drop them off a tower in the area where the accident happened. the rescuers are relying on heavy equipment to barge the piles of mud and debris clearing a tunnel where workers have been trapped since a torrent of water and debris swept through on sunday after part of a glazier broke off upstream. working on the crown of the tunnel when we heard

screams get out get out we didn't know what was happening we started running to escape when the force of the water gushed in through the mouth of the tunnel. it's thought the workers are stuck in an outlet about 180 meters then. my brother was here he used to work here and now i'm hearing he is trapped inside we have no information about him there were 6 people from our village over here. about 2000 members of the military police and specialist the mountain rescue of involved in the search. while they hoping to find survivors of the tunnel some teams have been out on the river fearing the worst. our team is here searching for bodies if we see anyone near the banks or in the river our work is to recover them. most of the missing were working on 2 hydro power projects being built by the government

deep in the mountains of northern state one dam was damaged another destroyed and homes were washed away experts say the burst could be linked to climate change and a team of scientists has been flown to the site to investigate other environmentalists blame the construction saying it's damaging the himalayas fragile ecosystem clearly this is an unstable. which is not uncommon in these sorts of environments i worry i think would be that this could there could be other such events i saw the launches landslides snow avalanches and so on in the future and that that may well be exacerbated by by climate change. food and medicines have been delivered to some villages that have been cut off and this mountainous region repairs and reconstruction will take time this is where the humanitarian and rescue efforts are being coordinated the town of. the 300 kilometers from the state's

capital takes time alice to reach by abroad the head of india's national disaster response friend said one of the biggest challenges is the difficult terrain and the rescue and recovery operation could take up to 48 hours elizabeth. rachel carson lecturer in physical geography at newcastle university and she explained some of the reasons why glaciers collapse. you have a garcia and it quite often has lots of rock and other material on its surface and this late last year iced melt and surface of the glass yet to flatten but it's got little lumps and bumps on it as well and those hollows and collect not water. because the melter is comparatively dark and it's a bit warmer than the ice by definition because it's also then it causes melting within those colors so you can imagine a kind of positive feedback whereby last year melts it collects roots and that

helps houses melt and so you get more and more water team uniting on the grass here and eventually these lakes and ponds can full together to form large lakes at the front of last year's and these can best out as we've seen in india and as of seamen occasions i mean i think we can say that these events are likely to happen will frequency as wolves and as more melt available on casias last year is a changing very very rapidly and then we see that across the himalayas so i think we can say that they will occur more but the key question to me is where they're going to occur and when so that we can provide better warnings and better hazardous essence and ultimately lunchroom. on to more head on the al-jazeera news hour including this israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu the it's not guilty yet there's corruption trial and calls the charges against him which. the opposition

says he's overstayed his constitutional wellcome by haiti's president says there's been a coup attempt. and a catsuit wearing syrian our audiences back to her basta she launches her campaign for a 24th grand slam title in australia that's coming up later this point. but 1st just a day before the former u.s. president donald trump a 2nd impeachment trial is set to begin his legal team has filed defense papers saying the proceedings are unconstitutional that's going to allan fessor he's joining us from capitol hill so what more can you tell us about the arguments put forward. by his team a very dismissive of what's planned here in the senate over the next week at least possibly up as long as 10 days they say this is simply political theater and it's congress trying to impact on the president's 1st amendment rights they point to the

fact that the f.b.i. said that a lot of the violence that happened on the 6th of january was planned in advance therefore you can't possibly tie donald trump speech on the 6th of january into what happened on capitol hill they also insist that he used that sort of speech many times on the campaign trail to suggest that somehow he inspired people because he was seeing it no simply doesn't hold water they also see that many of those people acted on their own initiative although there are court cases where a number of people said that they actually 2 can actually to head to capitol hill because of donald trump and what he said remember of course he said you have to fight like hell for your country or you want to have one and that is going to be the basis of a lot of what the democrats talk about that's for the democrats. they've still got to decide whether or not they want to call witnesses that will be a final decision that will be made by the senate it seems that they're not overly keen on doing that they are going to use a lot of video they're going to show what donald trump said on the 6th of january

they're going to draw essentially a line from that to the scenes that we then saw on capitol hill in the bill or to video of what happened there as well a but they know that there's the chance that they're not going to be able to convict don't try to remember 3 presidents have been impeached in the past including donald trump and none of them have been convicted and they've got the feeling that this is how this is going to pan out this time around as well you remember that 45 senators voted to call what was happening completely unconstitutional no who is of the voted in that way like mitch mcconnell who's of course the leader of the republicans in the senate has said that even though he thought it was unconstitutional it doesn't mean that he's already in madrid he made up his mind on the impeachment hearing he will sit and listen to the evidence he's been critical of donald trump and the way he behaved but there's still no guarantee that he's going to vote to convict donald trump and the democrats are wait of that they think if the $45.00 of them are going to say that this is unconstitutional

it's unlikely they will get the 2 thirds majority in the senate they need with enough republicans essentially flipping over to the democrat side and saying yes donald trump has to be convicted here but also we are 2 that the longer they spend on the impeachment the less time they have on joe biden's legislative agenda now you might think he's only just been elected there's 4 years still to go they want to get things done quickly including a covert relief bill 'd to talking about possibly revisiting the minimum wage they're very keen on getting some sort of immigration bill on to capitol hill very quickly as well all of these things will take time they will take up committee space they will take up bandwidth and the democrats simply don't want to tie up too much of that by dealing with. an impeachment case that on the face of it at the moment they don't think they can possibly when so donald trump has made his case obviously his team will do it in the senate chamber will be up to the democrats to

lead the case their case for impeachment and for conviction 1st of all and it all starts on tuesday here on capitol hill all right alan fischer thank you for that update from capitol hill. israel's prime minister has pleaded not guilty to corruption charges benjamin netanyahu appeared in court charged with bribery fraud and breach of trust and 3 separate cases he says he is the victim of what he calls an attempted coup harry fawcett reports from occupied east jerusalem. the protesters that have gathered every week for the last 8 months outside benjamin netanyahu as residents at a new focal point on monday the jerusalem district court a couple of 100 meters beyond the police barricades i would not think about the public security safety economics because the only thing that would interest me is how to get out of jail and this is why a person like that cannot stand in this position to be the prime minister the volume went up as the prime minister's convoy arrived and then you know i was

accused of fraud and breach of trust in 2 cases in a 3rd he also faces an additional charge of bribery and here they are shut down with me on the eve of his appearance he issued a message to his supporters calling the investigation and trial politically motivated insisting the case was crumbling the alleged offenses range from soliciting accepting lavish gifts from wealthy friends to offering assistance to media owners in return for favorable coverage in court he spoke only to confirm the written defense of his lawyers in essence a not guilty plea and to thank the court before leaving after sitting through just 20 minutes of legal argument his lawyers continued in his absence to question the legality of the investigation with the judges appearing to push back with benjamin netanyahu as departure for all the sound and fury out here for the legal argument inside the courtroom one of the most important things that could emerge from today is the time table something much more prosaic but could decide whether the evidence 3 phase the witness phase during which will be all kinds of allegations put under

oath whether that comes before israeli election no decision was issued but legal observers saw hints of the judges were in no hurry. the judge said well how long will it take you to send some of these documents that the other side needs and they said 3 weeks and the judges pounced on it 3 weeks on the learning another 3 weeks so it looks to me if i had to guess right now we will see the witnesses start coming end of march early april which would be after the march 23rd election that would itself be a minor victory for the prime minister allowing him to campaign outside of the direction of a legal battle that is just one issue among many dividing voters as they prepare to return to the polls for a 4th time in 2 years kerry forsett al-jazeera occupied east jerusalem south africa plans to roll out its oxford astra zeneca over $1000.00 vaccine in steps as it examines how effective it is the government has delayed the vaccination campaign after a trial found that offers less protection against the more contagious variant prevalence

in the country this comes just a week after south africa received its 1st batch of vaccines and was planning to begin vaccinations over the next few days britain says its vaccination campaign will continue as planned and the drug maker plans to modify its doses to keep up with any new variants prime minister boris johnson has said it appears the job is effective in preventing people from becoming seriously ill with the virus they remain massive benefit to our country and the population as we as we go through the pandemic and i've no doubt that vaccines generally are going to offer their way out . with every day that goes by you can see that is slowly getting the upper hand over the disease in a moment will join eve barker in london with more on what the world health organization has been saying about astra zeneca but 1st from

a similar explains why the south african government is under fire for how it's handled the pandemic. 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 receive the 1000000 doses last week it's only on a rival that it was established 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 used 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 so the world health organization has in speaking the head of the organization that is and for more on what he's been saying barker will tell us never joining us from london if what you have to say. well firstly just to remind you the oxford astra zeneca vaccine had very much been billed as the world's vaccine largely because it could be made in a cost effective way it didn't need to be stored or transported at super low temperatures meaning that it could potentially in which poor countries in the world

that need it most which is why the world health organization has been paying an awful lot of close attention to what's been happening in south africa in dealing with the south african strain and the apparent ineffectiveness when it comes from the oxford astra zeneca vaccine in dealing with modern moderate. infections of the south african strain and. the director of the w.h.o. said that indeed given what we know about covert $9.00 to $19.00 given what we know about the likelihood that it will mutate it's really down to both scientists and pharmaceutical companies to be able to be nimble and to adapt to changing times to be able to tackle code 19 in a global way when you have to say these results are a good reminder that we need to do everything we can to reduce circulation of the virus was proven public of measures it also seems increasingly clear that

manufacturers will have to i just do the evolution of the virus taking into account the latest violence for future shorts including boosters we know viruses mutate and we know we have to be ready to adopt vaccines so they remain effective. well also the president at that meeting of the world whole health organization was a leading scientist that actually advises the south african government and despite the fact the announcement was made on sunday that south africa would stop with its rollout of the oxford astra zeneca vaccine they're now appears according to about expert to be something of an adjustment in how south africa will proceed namely that it will continue rolling out the oxford astra zeneca vaccine in a stepped manner that's how it's been described by that expert launch early because although we know that it may be limited to and ineffectual when it comes to

treating younger people. for mild or moderate forms of the strain there was a gap in the research we still don't know what the impact might be on older people those more likely to suffer seriously from the virus the suggestion is both from scientists here in the u.k. and in south africa that it still may have a role to play when it comes to reducing serious cases which using the numbers of people that are forced to go to hospital and indeed reducing the death toll as well ok need barker thank you very much still ahead on the al-jazeera news hour no clear leader or somalia's president's term and with no agreement on who will replace him . the olive trees in the libyan mountains might not have roots thousands of years old but the tradition of pressing their oil certainly gives. an 7 time f one champion lewis hamilton science for another season of mercedes the story coming up

of that later. well last of the very active weather that produced flash floods in iraq in the iran this is tale in a few more showers the northern parts of iran the cross into turkmenistan and then snow in afghanistan leaving behind open skies and blueness and apart from a few showers in the mountains a sudden saudi and yemen it's going to be dry this still but for a couple of days down the gulf which means doha will be a dusty and a bit breezy was not particularly severe and tensions here in the levant are rising beirut's forecast gets 22 that's above normal by about 4 degrees a nice warm weather nothing hugely changes in the next 2 or 3 days says wednesday's

forecast you're looking at now apart from the lack of showers spot the difference the same is true i suppose in southern africa with the sun slowly moving north now so the rains are quite intense service south africa in fact you'd expect this time of year to watch a step in madagascar and maybe mozambique is still right time to develop a tropical cyclone right on the edge of your screen you see the only one in the world at the moment for us use in the middle of the indian ocean but significant rain is still likely in places like the capital of by the gaskets in the forecast for at least the next 2 days. al-jazeera world goes to morocco to me fine with the film directors doing whatever it takes to succeed or write the script and i'm often the camera man the body engine here and the boom operator not the road to fame and fortune can be a rocky one juggling the demands of family life with their passion for filmmaking

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here with the news on al jazeera here the top stories the head of the military power in me tomorrow we can go has accused the democratic leaders of failing to carry out their duties. after tens of thousands of protesters returned to the streets of me and mar rescue operations are underway in northern india to free more than 30 people trapped in a tunnel a day after part of a himalayan glaciers collapsed at least 20 bodies have been recovered but around 200 people are still missing. lawyers for the former u.s. president donald trump's impeachment trial have filed defense papers saying the proceedings are unconstitutional they also say trump did not incite violence on january 6th when his supporters stormed the capital and tried to prevent congress from certifying the elections. so miers opposition leaders say they no longer recognize the president. just term has expired but with no agreement on elections

to replace him an alliance of opposition candidates say they won't accept an extension of his term a plan to hold an indirect presidential election broke down over disagreements on how to proceed with the vote of the dough is in nairobi and he says the situation in somalia is unprecedented. no one is brave enough to predict what the future holds for somalia and the country has now entered uncharted territory it's been it's a fust never has a sitting president's monday to expire either without the elections being held or a political agreement being. agreed between the political actors in the country and a country that is now recovering from almost 3 decades of conflict so right now the ease a lot of shuttle diplomacy that is happening been carried out by the international

community the leadership of the african union peacekeeping mission in somalia to try and but even the leaders of mali is federal regions once again face to face with the president of somalia and if that doesn't. i'm in succeed it is going to be really a difficult period for somalia this crisis has been a year in the making and according to a statement released earlier today by the american embassy in mogadishu they say these political gridlock has affected the fight against al-shabaab to the extent that. everyone is so concerned with what's happening in politics that very little attention is being given to security but when you talk to the president and his supporters they say they still power vacuum there's no vacuum at all and that the president would only leave office once elections held more than 20

people have been arrested in haiti over an alleged coupe plot amid a dispute over the president's trim the opposition says java now moises 5 year term expired on sunday but always says he still has another year to rule manual rappel reports. of the day of protests in port au prince. opposition supporters continued their calls for the resignation of president bush of knowing. if 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 pattaya 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 arrest come on the day that opposition leaders see the president's mandate in office was supposed to end well everything i'm hearing from haiti and just gathering the strands is that this is actually an attack against the opposition parties kind of an excuse to round up opponents the people who have been arrested are a number of prominent voices and critiquing his regime so to me it seems like the story is a cover for something very different. tensions in haiti remain high as opposition

leaders have vowed to continue to put pressure on the movies government and if called for more demonstrations. al-jazeera. cryptocurrency bitcoin has had a record price of $44000.00 a unit after automaker bought one and a half $1000000000.00 worth tesla says it will soon begin accepting payments in the digital currency then that its investments in that corner and other alternative assets may grow gabriel is on those joining us from new york what more do we know about this investment well it was a surprise and it was came out on monday morning when tesla was releasing their annual report and in this tesla said that they had been looking at diversifying their assets for about a month now and this was one of the major strategies and it's really took wall street by surprise in a lot of ways for 2 reasons number $11500000000.00 in bitcoin is

a lot just put it in perspective now tesla is in terms of publicly traded companies phones more bitcoin than anyone else other than one other company and that's micro strategy and analytics company in the u.s. it owns $3000000000.00 worth of bitcoin better than that it's tesla at $1500000000.00 so they amount of money that was put in on big coin really took a lot of people by surprise and really raised a lot of eyebrows but then also tesla really doubling down on it and saying that they are considering and will potentially in the weeks or months ahead perhaps except bitcoin as payment for tesla products so tesla really going all in on this and that's caused bitcoins price to jump $1.00 point up nearly 16 percent it's now at about 12 percent as you mentioned $44000.00 per unit you can all traces back to of course tesla is very eccentric founder and c.e.o. if you will musk the world's richest man he's been very much behind this push by

tesla to really go all in yeah and he has been tweeting lately that is his tweets have been reflected on how some stocks perform it. yeah i mean. uses his twitter account and his twitter following more than 45000000 people that follow him on twitter and he uses it very powerful he quite frankly i mean he's talked about. tweeted about bitcoin in the past and when he does the price of bitcoin goes up almost immediately and he's also done this about other things other cyber currencies as well doh dodge calling for example a digital token that was really kind of a joke in a lot of ways he tweeted about it showed some interest in it and then its price jumped way up as well so you on must clearly using it very liberally his twitter account to his advantage and securities into exchange commission here in the united

states clue looking closely at that because as we know cyber currency really is not regulated at all here so that's could potentially could be a big problem yeah all right deborah thank you for that update from new york the u.s. says it will reengage with the u.n. human rights council after leaving under former president donald trump and 2018 the secretary of state anthony blinken echoed the trumpet ministrations claim however that the body is biased against israel but he says the u.s. departure of allowed off for its syrian countries to exploit a vacuum of leadership it's the latest reversal of trump's foreign policies by president joe biden the scramble for scarce lands in nigeria is pushing millions of people into poverty that's according to activists in 2800 nigerian overtook india as the country with the largest number of people living in extreme poverty experts say it's largely because of corruption land confiscations and how

resources are distributed among the trees reports from burning. in 7 years one certainly has fought at 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 home. who are not apart from that farm and then dead in abject poverty and you mean 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 old things. what i use of chose to sell 2 or 3 forms rather than lose them 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 arbonne a zation but as rich and powerful nigerians buy up more land experts fear 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 weak laws and corruption the land use decree itself allows

people to acquire large parcels of land which then are fence off so that poor people are increasingly being pushed to the margins ones who fence of the land they push off who are these poor people poor farmers poor hardest who are increasingly being pushed to the magine of society as a land is concerned. 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 we're right. so that as a challenge so you really is a challenge for. all of us says you know is this. personally . all this group really.

i mean. activists warn that unless the government puts an end to unrestrained and sometimes illegal acquisitions nigeria could soon face conflicts bigger than those the country is kind of deal with it greece. but in egypt. 3 european union countries have expelled russian diplomats moscow says the move by poland germany and sweden is unjustified and unfriendly it's in retaliation to a similar move by the kremlin which kicked out several embassy workers last week it's angry that the bloc criticized its treatment of opposition figure alexei navalny he was arrested when he returned home from germany where he'd spent 5 months recovering from poisoning rescuers in morocco have recovered the bodies of 24 people who died when an underground textile factory flooded the private

residence in the northern city of tangier was being run as an illegal workshop 10 people were found alive and taken to hospital the country has experienced heavy rainfall in recent weeks after a lengthy drought it's parts of indonesia's capital have been submerged by floodwater after heavy rainfall it's triggered evacuations and power outages in jakarta riverside households have faced the most damage antony's there frequently sufferance floods and landslides during the rainy season between november and march . coming up on the i'll just there a news hour with a sports news including this one more on tom brady who has wrecked up yet another super bowl victory peter will be here in just a moment for the sports. well

over centuries of changing civilizations religions and cultures in these small mountain. has relied on the same industry pressing all lives for oil train i met the people carrying on the tradition. in the mountain a small town of them so let's about 100 kilometers southeast of tripoli the people here live and breathe all it's 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 why. during the olive season here all of us have been grown for thousands of years and their oil extract it. 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 to him so lots of by the phoenicians later the romans began exporting all of oil that was produced here from the entrance city of leptis magna we run perscribe detects in 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 of us are crushed by hand 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 illness it was fun we would drink tea and eat out all of the 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 discs and through pressure but we lose extract 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 olive oil factory it's one of the more advanced factories here. in the town of them salada all of oil has a special meaning it's celebrated every family here spends the months of november to march harvesting all of us to make oil each of them have different techniques. and so let 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 now it traina al-jazeera and so let's. get an update on the sports is that peter thank you very much tom brady has done it again at 43 years old he's won a record extending 7th super bowl title and this time with a different team he led the tampa bay buccaneers to a dominant victory of the kansas city chiefs david starts 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 star of the halftime show which had a different feel this year with these dances building social distancing and facemasks into their performance the bucs dominance continued in the 2nd half and they were singing out of sight when leonard for the net broke cliff a touchdown and before sealing the title for tampa and super bowl number 7 for brady after his 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. making 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 liberal. 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. saw their baby bump give us some tears on live t.v. break it down far cry and go the earlier i go to right now. bill the earlier very now had 0 i know how to crack tom brady wins it again next year that'll make you cry and you know right now just as the i did a sit back to back out cereal bowl of abel ball a 43 years old in 188 days brady's already the oldest player to ever play in a super bowl and it appears he's not done yet we're coming back with i don't know how they did stokes al-jazeera. we spoke to n.f.l. broadcast the michael colton asked him how likely it is that brady can go on to win

super bowl number 8 that's really interesting question because the heart needs a center to keep a successful together for a number of years and. that's what bill belichick was so good at doing at new england a what frustrated me in the last couple of years is the level of talent around you got smaller. champ work one this game i mean much as brady played very well and it was doubtless the events that really won this game and you wonder if we'll be able to bring back all brady's haircuts and walk ins plus the key defensive players a lot of them are young and will stay with that scene where you never know about one or 2 star players who now have a super bowl ring and other t.j. what we know a lot of money there are $3.00 agents and then you have kids like the city who are also young and kept rooms as a young or back looking around for a few more years to challenge. serina williams says she was inspired by brady after

winning her opening match at the australian open the 39 year old american was up against germany's laura siegelman in the 1st round in melbourne on monday it took just 56 minutes to secure a 6161 victory in front of a small but very appreciative crowd serena is chasing a record equalling 24th grand slam her most recent slam title was the 27 team of the open. open the defense of his title with ease the world number one secured a straight sets victory over french from jeremy sharkey probably just 6 games in an otherwise dominant when the only team in alexander. i. european champions by munich are taking our. club world cup right out of time and buying a one mil up our sports correspondent andy richardson is at their game in doha and at half time in this club world cup semifinal what's your assessment of the match

so far. even by by munich's standards they are enjoying a pretty unprecedented period of success at the moment and that is continuing in this game so far most the never to be their goal coming through the rubble of indoor skates one nil at half time there are relentless pursuit of this perfect collection of 6 trophies goes on they've won the domestic trouble in germany already of course on the way for champions league to see pick up another within sight of the world cup world cup final title as well something that even they've never achieved before only barcelona back in 2009 have done something similar worth noting that this game at a time when virtually no fans are allowed any games anywhere in the world is a good atmosphere here the capacities caps at 30 percent. of 90. hugely supported in this region is a big egyptian community here in qatar and a lot of fans of. through the effort of going through their required medical checks to come here there's

a really good atmosphere in the talking to manual josie the former coach back in 2007 when the club was celebrating its in sr he said managing this team is not managing a normal football club it's like managing a country such is the level of support at the level of influence and history that the clubhouse with in egypt are going to need all the support if they're going to come back and somehow get themselves back into this game against bond meaning for all their success in africa and within egypt they've never reached a club world cup final before they've got 45 minutes to try and so in this game around ok the winner will go into. this final tell us more about that mexico. yeah a real shock in yesterday's semifinal between powell maris of brazil the 1st team from mexico to reach the final of this tournament in fact the 1st team from that confederation for north and central america to get through to the final. we often

spoke about that that's how i'm drawing from the americas sickly from from mexico and south america coming into european leagues it's cigarettes it is works the other way around since 2015 they've had the french strike. playing for them he's the club's record goalscorer and he's already scored 3 more goals in this tournament so he's taken his team within a within a striking another strike now of a very famous title win for their huge disappointment coming all this way for just one game in effect one of the reasons why faith would love to expand this tournament and bring in the group stages wealth seems like palmeiro so they can stick around for a few more games and the riches some thank you so much for your. 7 time formula one world champion lewis hamilton has agreed to a new deal to race a mercedes the season after months of delays the british driver has agreed to continue his relationship with the team for a 9th season he'll continue to partner with finnish driver valtteri bottas sadie's as also committed to greater diversity and inclusion across all of the motorsport

teams. that's all the sport 3 ok peter thank you so much and thanks for watching the news hour on al-jazeera that's it for myself from peter the team here and we hand you over to our teams in london charlie angelos with you in just a moment but much more of the day's news thanks for watching but by. the latest news as it breaks human rights groups are questioning why people are taking to this isolation senators and the treatment they receive once their they're with detailed coverage beyond groups now control the villages that we can see on

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