on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. follow on charlie and this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london coming up. to. me and my pots and pans protest that people show their anger after the coup leader defends his actions. south africa's coronavirus setback the rollout of the arts at astra zeneca vaccine is suspended because of disappointing results against a new covariant. the race to find survivors of india's glassy avalanche hundreds still missing. on elizabeth broad and the town of joshi mark where the

humanitarian rescue and recovery operations are being coordinated from. the day before donald trump the 2nd impeachment trial his lawyers claim it's unconstitutional and political theater. is in doha with all the day's school to news munich beat are largely to move to book a place in the field for club world cup final with a mexican club. me and military rulers a tightening their grip on the country they've imposed a curfew in the 2 biggest cities yangon in mandalay and banned gatherings of more than 5 people the curfews are intended to put an end to growing protests against last week's coup military rule. leming online has addressed the nation for the 1st

time since the takeover he accused the country's democratic leaders of using the pandemic to rig november's election but also promised a new election next year but is already booked for a multi-party democratic system in free infer election it is important for the long term of the system that are generated when we have completed one year of this emergency law we will continue to proceed into the 2008 constitution we will have a multi-party election and we will hand over power to the one who wins in that election according to the rules of democracy. thanks following the televised address protests continued across me and laugh with people in the largest city yangon striking pots and pans in a show of public anger against the military leaders and we call from the coup protests are showing no signs of abating as scott highly reports they seem to be getting bigger and more widespread. the 1st push

back 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 their 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. i like out the weekend when tens of thousands gathered in cities across the country waving the colors of suits 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 union 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 rule 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 a starting citizen professors shown to nail from the detention. our embassy has been providing the 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 action being taken against those who break the law. ok. 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 scott had left our jazeera well earlier i spoke with the author of man laws for genocide doctrine and really he believes the nation's new military rule is completely out of touch with the young people who make up the majority of the population. hundreds of thousands if not millions of people have been protesting about the coup and on lange's response astoundingly seemed to

blame the democratically elected government for not being. appropriately committed to democracy as one cause of the coup he then suggested that the economic environment for investment would be a good under the military i mean this is this is during a week when multinational corporations are running away from me and mine and then astonishingly something that certainly won't be won't be believed by the international community or the richenda he suggested that the repatriation of refugees in bangladesh would continue or could continue under military rule i mean it was it was in many ways an astonishing speech but actually time day if the patriot that ordinary me and my residents have for the military and the anger that they feel because of the coup. this will be a battle of wills it will be

a battle between they democratic aspirations of a very young country me and mom and most most people in myanmar would want when aung san suu kyi 1st came to political prominence in 1988 gives you some idea how young the country is the there on one side and the military who desires absolute power on the other i mean i i think demographics of play a huge role in this because young people's aspirations are not to allow the old male soldiers to dictate their lives to them the way maybe would have been accepted 20 or 30 years ago it's a different world now that got young people have access to the internet they've seen the world outside of me and ma and they want a different future. south african health authorities are working with international scientists to draw up a new covert 19 vaccination strategy they suspended the original plan to use the

oxford astra zeneca vaccine because trials showed it gives little protection against the highly contagious local variant it could now be rolled out in steps to test its effectiveness for me to me that has more from johannesburg. it's here in nelson mandela bay on south africa's east coast that experts say a new variant of covert 19 spread rapidly it's more contagious and accounts for 90 percent of all new infections south africa with 1000000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine was due to start giving jabs to frontline health workers in a week's time study suggested it would cut the risk of contracting the or original variant of corona virus by 75 percent but against the new variant the vaccine is almost powerless it's said to have only a 22 percent chance of stopping mild to moderate infections is a temporary issue we are. sure that.

the study's not clear on how well the vaccine can protect people from severe illness or death south africa may be at the tail end of its 2nd wave of covert 1000 but the approach of colder months there is a real worry of a 3rd wave there's always been concern south africa's not vaccinating people quick enough and with the new variant of the virus that concerns only growing oxford astra zeneca says it will tweak its existing vaccine to offer more effective protection but it could be august before that's available so far the new variant has spread to at least 21 countries while existing vaccines may face the challenge of keeping up with mutations as new variants have already been identified in the u.k. and brazil experts say all is not lost and this vaccine be combined with another vaccine so that you have 2 different vaccines that do what we call prime stimulate the immune system and 2 different points in time and you do it with slightly

different back so there are many questions still to be honest here given the limited sample size of the trial and the younger healthier profile of the participant it's important to determine whether or not the vaccine remains effective in preventing more serious illness. south africa's also looking to other manufacturers the government says it expects to receive a new vaccine soon from pfizer and johnson and johnson and it will continue talks with more suppliers including in china and russia from al-jazeera johannesburg well the study by johannesburg vits university shows 2 doses of the oxford astra zeneca vaccine provided provide minimal protection against mild to moderate infections of the south african variant the study didn't assess efficacy against severe infections but the authors say the findings show effort should shift from herd immunity to protecting people at risk of getting coated the scientists who

lead the development of the astra zeneca vaccine so the study confirms the virus will find ways to spread in vaccinated populations researches noted work has begun on a 2nd generation of the vaccine that will target new mutations when exxon appears it leads the university college london to global citizen. global citizenship program and outbreaks of infectious diseases she's also a global health advisor and joins us now from london thank you for joining us oksana this trial showed very little protection against mild cases of covert 19 but is there a chance it's still effective against serious infections of the south african variant. yes there is a expectation that we will see some protective benefit for more steve year and aggressive forms that appear in the older population and we also see this if you see improved for other that seems as well so even with the johnson and johnson

vaccine for severe or cases we see that the level of protection is as high as 89 percent but when we get to that mild and moderate which we see mostly in young populations that drops down into the fifty's range so with the ashes that results again sample sizes and the 2000 so it was small and again it shows an important aspect around transmissibility but one of the reasons that we turn towards vaccines is also because we are looking to reduce the overall pressure on healthcare systems in hospitals as well as reducing the death rate and we expect that there will still be benefit in it and so some protection is better than none so you say some protection is better than none but couldn't you actually be detrimental in giving those people who've got the vaccine false hope and allowing them to collect more within the population to maybe reduce some of the magic that they've been

practicing. well in reality show as well as many governments have all been united in their choice to say that the vaccine alone at this stage is not the silver bullet and we can't just go back to england this month this stage it takes a while for us to see mass benefits in united nation at that population level we have to reach a certain saturation point and that will take some time and equally it is yet to be fully understood to what extent we can reduce the transmissibility so in some ways you can think of it as though you know my prevents you from dying but you could still go on to pass it to someone else and they could top that transmissibility as they're still ongoing with the research and all governments and calling for continued use of face masks and social distancing alongside these vaccines so again certainly a while. back seem to need to be tweaked and already all companies are looking to

do so astra zeneca also could be a solution be to look at using a 3rd booster dose to help give larger protection but as new variants emerge we cannot continue we cannot put all of her as one basket so we know the vaccine is going to be tweaked by astra zeneca do we have any idea what the timeline for that will be. again it's typical to say we've heard various companies as say that you could take anywhere from 6 weeks to 3 months to piers is that if you get a set 2nd generation ready for the next fall but again there are always unexpected hiccups and other challenges that emerge along the way and it is important to note that it's not just that she's on a vaccine that shows which is to say if you see for the south african very there's about a 20 percent drop if not more for almost all of the existing vaccines so going back to looking at how to create a more effective version of it is something that all companies will be doing books

on a president from university college london thank you for your time thank you. coming up on this news from london benjamin netanyahu faces court on corruption charges if protesters keep up their fight against the israeli prime minister. biden wages war on trump era policies vowing to rejoin a body washington views as flawed and in need of reform. and serena williams is back to her best in australia she launches her campaign for 24 the grand slam title . dozens of people are still trapped in a tunnel a day after part of a himalayan glass collapsed fell into a river causing a massive flood at least 20 bodies have been recovered 200 more people are missing elizabeth who are now reports in the foothills of the himalayas. the rescuers are

relying on heavy equipment to barge the piles of mud and debris to clearing a tunnel where workers have been trapped since a torrent of water and debris swept through on sunday after part of a glacier 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 in. 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. that was giving up about 2000 members of the military police and specialist in 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. 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 all the environmentalists blamed the construction saying it's damaging the himalayas fragile ecosystem clearly this is an unstable valley 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 prepares 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 that takes time alice to reach by broad the head of india's national disaster response for said one of the biggest challenges is the difficult terrain and the rescue and recovery operation could take up to 48 hours elizabeth cronon al-jazeera joshi mother. scientists studying himalayan glasses have warned increasing global temperature as a speeding up the rate of ice loss that's causing the development of. they can hold millions of cubic metres of water they will governments and agencies to pay more attention to the risks. satellite images of the ritchie ganga hydroelectric project show the change in ice cover on the surrounding glasses of the past 4 years from

early february 27th team to february 28th the surface area of ice gradually increased in the region that continued throughout 2019 before rapidly expanding in the winter of 2022 what can be seen here but within the past year all of that new cover has melted away the legal team defending former u.s. president donald trump in his 2nd impeachment trial will argue the hearing is unconstitutional and fisher is on capitol hill following the story for us and so we heard from trump's lawyers today what did they have to say. well they think the whole thing is political theater and that don't trump really has nothing to answer for here he says that what the senate is deciding is whether or not they're going to impinge on what was a sitting president's 1st amendment right to free speech they say that despite what is alleged by those in the house and donald trump is not responsible for the events

on the 6th of january they point to the fact that he used the phrase fight for a country on several occasions before when there was never any violence and that the people who responded to that call were acting on their own initiative not something that the president was pushing there also highlight the fact that the f.b.i. has said in its investigations of that the plan for trouble at the capitol was formulating for days before this speech that don't trump gave and before january the 6th here know there are some on the democratic side who see that simply not the case there are weary of the situation as far as the numbers in the senate are concerned but they see that donald trump cause the most grievous crime that a president can commit which was almost jeopardizing the entire democracy in the united states and they see the evidence is overwhelmingly against him so what is the evidence that they're going to present that he inspired that what they call the insurrection on january the 6th that they will perhaps call witnesses that has to

be decided in the senate but they're also or we're this might not be if very drawn no process because there's a couple of reasons for that 1st of all the democrats are aware that they might not be able to get the votes in the senate to convict donald trump remember 45 senators voted that this was an unconstitutional act by the senate considering the impeachment articles that were sent over by the house and you've got to get a 2 thirds majority in the senate to convict. a president or a former president and the democrats aren't entirely convinced they will be able to get those votes no tim kaine who's a senator from virginia is writing in the washington post on tuesday seeing that when the evidence is laid out he believes some democrats will realize the donald trump can't escape without any consequence from this but that seems optimistic at

this stage there's another reason why the democrats would drag this out for any length of time it's because it's going to get in the way of joe biden's legislative agenda now you might say he's just been elected he's got 4 years he's go very short window to do a lot of things that he wants to do one of those is to get a covert bill pushed through here but also he wants to do things that immigration onto the hill and get them to consider that so the democrats aren't entirely convinced that this is going to go in their favor they will present their evidence on tuesday we'll get an idea of just how long it's going to take be you have to remember this 3 presidents have been impeached in the past not one of them have been convicted by the senate. no convictions alan fischer reporting live from capitol hill thank you the white house are versed another controversial trump era foreign policy announcing it will reengage with the u.n. human rights council secretary of state and the blinken says the u.s. will return as an observer despite signaling the body is still flawed and in need

of reform former president donald trump pulled out of the human rights council 2 years ago accusing it of bias against israel the u.s. can't automatically rejoin and will have to wait for elections at the end of this year well rosalyn jordan joins us live from washington d.c. resident do we know what sorts of reforms the u.s. wants to see at the u.n. . well the spokesperson net price didn't want to get too specific and that's understandable because the u.s. is trying to essentially rebuild relationships inside an international organization that it received really no love no support no understanding from the previous administration but he did tell reporters at the daily press briefing that the u.s. is concerned about what has been called a disproportionate focus on israel and what some critics have called the council's record on anti-semitism having

a very poor record in fact but he did say that the u.s. can't expect to see changes at the human rights council unless it is actually involved in the daily proceedings and in fact there were u.s. officials already involved in a regularly scheduled meeting of the human rights council on monday he also did suggest that is very important to make certain that the seats on the council are filled with representatives of countries that have good or strongly human rights records not filled with representatives of countries that have engaged in human rights violations egregious human rights violations that was something which the previous administration of dol trump did vigorously criticize i'm you've just come from a briefing from the state department and they made an announcement on yemen we understand what more can you tell us. well essentially the situation with the yemeni civil war is that the biden of ministration wants to end it but late on sunday the

administration released a statement criticizing the 2 things which control most of the territory inside yemen for continuing to will launch attacks on civilians not just in southwestern saudi arabia with which it shares a border but also continuing to attack yemeni civilians things which the ministration says simply cannot stand the administration is calling on the who tease to basically lay down their arms and try to find a way to engage in a political peace process but they also just this past friday notified congress that they're going to roll back to particular designations against the hooty group as a whole in order to not endanger the efforts to provide humanitarian aid to the yemeni people these 2 designations are very very strange and it would make it hard for humanitarian groups to do their work inside the country but the u.s.

is reserving the right to continue individual sanctions on individual who the leaders because they say that this civil war which is now in its 6th year has to end doesn't jordan thank you for the update from washington d.c. . still ahead in the bulletin how an underground criminal ring in china is undermining confidence in vaccine safety. and the scramble for nigeria's scarce land why activists say overzealous developers a pushing millions into poverty. and 7 time f one champion us hamilton signs for another season with the savings. but. 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 than if is 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 averages to go 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 or 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 for deep into winter. it's one of the most recognized sites around the world famed for its support from far and wide but for the fans back home it's more than just a football club and what is politics should be left out of 4 or 4 balls no one politics and. the passion and the politics of liverpool f.c. the defiant giant. part of the fans who make football see reese on al-jazeera. as a weapon of war leaves the very deepest scars. scars so wrong that the victims men

and women can barely talk about it. they are the only witnesses who can help bring about justice al-jazeera follows human rights campaigners in libya investigating ray since the 2011 revolution. libya unspeakable crime on al-jazeera. a reminder the top stories here on al-jazeera mean mars military rulers have imposed a curfew and young gone and banned gatherings of more than 5 people is intended to stop growing protest against last week's military coup. south african health

authorities are working with international scientists to draw up a new vaccination strategy after their original plan to use the oxford astra zeneca job were suspended a trial showed it gives little protection against a highly contagious variant. dozens of people are still trapped in a tunnel a day after part of the himalayan classier collapsed causing a massive flood at least 20 bodies have been recovered 200 more are missing. the chinese government says it's aiming to vaccinate 50000000 people before this week's lunar new year travel rush large numbers of people are expected to travel across china to ring in the new year with their families on friday but there are concerns about the speed of the rollout with more than half a 1000000000 people needing to receive the vaccine for china to reach herd immunity katrina you reports from beijing. every day crowds of workers are being bussed into this beijing museum to receive covert 19 tax nations the chinese government aid to

vaccinate $15000000.00 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 received. jab's 223000 people are not at this beijing vaccinations and every day the chinese government has prioritized certain industries the 1st phase of its mass vaccination rollout and so many of the people who come here it's their employer who has organized that business but experts say china needs to speed up its vaccination rollout and a lack of widespread infection means a slower development of herd immunity among the population which may not be achieved until late 2022. china 50000000 people by me 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 india nisha 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 and preparations for the 2022 winter olympics beijing has high hopes for the olympics and its vaccines will help improve its international image in the wake of the penn demick. but while questions about china's role the outbreak remain unanswered its borders are still closed and its people await their turn to receive a vaccine katrina new al-jazeera beijing. over the past year corona virus has wreaked havoc on industries and the global market many have not yet recovered travel is still down by 70 percent but the price of oil has now recovered to preplan demick levels in general 2020 the price of a barrel of west texas intermediate crude oil sat above $60.00 by february when it became clear coated $900.00 had spread to europe the price per barrel dips below 45 dollars by the end of the month as country shut down and travel halted crude oil stockpiles rose causing prices to plummet and april it fell to historic lows of

negative $37.00 per barrel this is rare for any commodity and happens usually when supply exceeds demand but the price has slowly been creeping its way back up the monday crude reached $57.75 a barrel for the 1st time since the pandemic began well to help us make sense of this i'm joined by all the region during the head of oil markets research at energy intelligence he joins us by skype from new york thank you for joining us it seems demand hasn't returned to prepare endemic levels so what is driving this price. you know that's a great question and it's one that we're getting from from a lot of our clients you know i think or the last couple of months there have been you know lingering worries about demand and then the lack of seasonality in the in the in the winter but charlie your view is you know demand has been diminished that is true but there's been so many other supportive factors for oil supply has been

you know it continues to be pegged below demand supply is actually even more restrained in demand and that's been helpful for us for market balances we've had a lot of other factors that have been supportive of oil prices like the weakness in the u.s. dollar the fact that you're having more momentum around global stimulus being built that of course with an election here in the u.s. with president biden winning the odds of that went up and so you had a lot of support a factor is that it had a pretty much negated some of the weakness and softness in demand in fact even though over the winter months you've even had extremely cold weather which you provided an uplift for for demand in certain parts of the world so you know in our view the last couple of months you know there's just been so many supportive factors that that sort of the the demand concerns have been pretty much been swept under the rug but it still seems as a lot of speculation in that a lot of it they set up the missing for the u.s.

economy but what risk that speculation bring if things don't go to plan the next few months. you know it's a good question i mean i think there is certainly an element of the anticipation and demand recovery that make it into prices here we are expecting a sequential improvement in consumption and mobility and over the next couple of months you know you touched on the device rollout and you know and then some of the you know the wave 2 of of the virus of the winter cresting so that's really what we're seeing now but you know but again at this point there are you know there are execution risks that that that need to be carried out you know we reach the risk $60.00 pretty quickly. certainly if we don't have that demand recovery if the vaccine uptake doesn't continue then likely will we'll see a little bit of a pullback from here because you know there is quite a bit of you know an anticipation big into the price but you know again charlie in our view you know we think that the bar is quite low on the demand side we expect

that improvement and not just in the u.s. but in europe as they come out of lock downs and in asia buying picks up over the next couple of months so we're certainly constructive on the demand side and then the supply side will have to see right certainly you know we've had a real have a very large opec plus cut that's in place so the trajectory of that is also going to be important indicating prices we've also seen well why it sat prices reach a new record high today how how that's hat still detached is that from reality. i don't know it's a great question and you know i think certainly you from a macro perspective you know i touched on it earlier and there's been a lot of support a factor for oil prices equity markets are risky assets commodity prices in general the dollar weakness which i referenced earlier i'm certainly again i think in many of these markets especially in equities which can be a little bit more forward looking right there's there's a lot of anticipation of that recovery rate big dent and you know but it's also

being supported i touched on stimulus earlier it's also being supported by you know extremely high levels of financial liquidity all over the world in the u.s. in europe and in parts of asia so certainly again to your question earlier i think we'll have to see this recovery continue to gain momentum both from an economic standpoint and from a healthy you know coronavirus standpoint for the you know the equity markets and risk assets to continue to be supported here and if they do right if the momentum continues in a in a productive way you could see these assets continue inflate higher and that certainly could take oil along with that as well. or agenda from energy intelligence in new york thank you for your insights thanks for having me. israel's prime minister appeared in court on monday pleading not guilty to corruption charges he says that he's the victim of what he calls an attempt to 2 israeli leaders facing 3 charges the most serious indictment is known as case 4000 for

bribery fraud and breach of trust from when he was both prime minister and communications minister he's accused of influencing regular teachers cision in favor of telecom giant schul of it in exchange for positive media coverage when and if it has won the new site next is case 2000 also for fraud and breach of trust involving the media netanyahu allegedly offered to help improve the circulation of leading israeli newspaper he had enough again in exchange for favorable media coverage and finally this case $1000.00 the prime minister and his wife are accused of receiving gifts worth almost $200000.00 mainly cigars and bottles of champagne in exchange for favors the charge relates to his friendships with israeli film producer a known miss shon an australian billionaire james packer kerry forsett reports from occupied east jerusalem. the protesters that

have gathered every week for the last 8 months outside benjamin netanyahu has residence at a new focal point on monday the jerusalem district court a couple of 100 metres 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 netanyahu was accused of fraud and breach of trust in 2 cases in a 3rd he also faces an additional charge of bribery and you know the action of them 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 legit fences ranged 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 so with benjamin netanyahu his departure for all the sound and fury out here for the legal argument inside the courtroom one of the most important things we 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 and the judge said well how long will it take you to send some of these documents that the other side needs and he said 3 weeks and the judges pounced on it 3 weeks and then another 3 weeks so it looks to me if i had to guess right now is that it will see the witnesses start coming end of march early april. it would be after the march 23rd watch and 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. somalia's opposition leaders say they no longer recognize president mohamed abdulahi mohamed half the his term expired without new elections he's been in broiled in a dispute with regional leaders which has prevented a vote to find his replacement the united nations is calling for a quick resolution to the crisis but diplomatic editor james bass has more. it was supposed to be presidential election day in somalia but following a dispute over the way the poll was to be organized it hasn't happened instead a coalition of opposition candidates have now declared the government of president from a show illegitimate in an interview to be broadcast on talk to al-jazeera the foreign minister mohammed abdul razak told me that's wrong the government will stay in

office until an election can be held well after that time after that 4 years he is no longer legitimately the president no it cannot be a fact the federal parliament in both chambers have signed voted for by a majority of 215 in the lower house and 40 senators to have. a law that would allow for the parliament with its full authority to continue with its mandate and for all the institutions of the federal government to continue the un is urging all sides to go back to the negotiating table but it won't rule on the constitutional position where it is not for the united nations in any setting to annoying to government declared legitimate or not legitimate if there are institutions that are in place that have been agreed to that have been negotiated we believe that somali political leaders need to come together whether you think

the government is legitimate or illegitimate somalia now finds itself in a constitutional gray zone this and what was supposed to be a pivotal year for the troubled country this year ama so on the 2000 strong african union force is supposed to hand over its responsibilities to the somali national army but most experts believe it's not yet equipped to take the lead role the group most likely to benefit from the current political crisis is al-shabaab which continues to fight amazon and the somali government an indication of the concern of the international community is the fact the un security council will now meet to discuss the situation on cheese day james by al-jazeera at the united nations. activists say the scramble for the nigeria is pushing millions of people into poverty and 2800 nigerian over turkey is the country with the largest number of

people living in extreme poverty experts say it's largely because of corruption and confiscations and how resources distributed. reports from. in 7 years. 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 land from peace sent. who are not apart from that form 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 in distributed in many cases developers use force to encroach upon farmland and evict poor farmers from the old things. what tell us of chose to sell 2 of these 3 forms rather than lose them the will of. the rich people invade our villages and use their enormous amounts of money to convince a reason cause poor villages to sell them as a result many of now lost their source of livelihood and become destitute. nigerians population grows by 3 percent each year the same rate as arbonne eyes asian but as rich and powerful nigerians buy a more land experts here that the government and the poor may soon struggle to find enough for agriculture and development. experts say even protected forest land is being targeted they say the elite are enabled by weak laws and corruption the land

use decree itself allows people to. parcels of land which then are fence off so that poor people are increasingly being pushed to the margins ones who fence of the land they push off who are these poor people poor farmers poor hardest who are increasingly being pushed would imagine of safety as 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 a very serious or social. or a we're right you go so that as a challenge so you really is a challenge for all of us says you know is that you. personally is the. 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 plea deal with comedy grease. but in keeping. still ahead this. morning tom brady has racked up yet another super bowl victory that's coming up to score with the facts right.

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features and oh how were the days for snes. charlie thank you so much european champions byron munich will play in the free for club world cup final well through to no win over. star striker robert levin dogs he handled by in the lead in the 1st half after a bit of a goal scramble if the 1st goal was scrappy the 2nd was very classy indeed 11 dogs he would finish off the fine passing display to secure a meeting with mexican club in the final on thursday our correspondent andy richardson was getting. well even by by munich's standards they are enjoying an unprecedented period of success at the moment and their relentless pursuit of this perfect collection of 6 trophies goes on something even they've never achieved in their history they won the domestic german trouble last season they also won the

european champions league and the way for super cup now they're within one match of winning the club world cup as well after this victory over egypt's. worth noting that a time when virtually no games being played with any fans in attendance this much did have a decent atmosphere stayed in class the captain an absolute maximum of 30 percent due to private 90 restrictions but there is a large egyptian community here in qatar and a lot of fans have gone through the effort of getting the necessary medical checks to come and really try and back that scene during this game i remember talking to manual jones say the former coaches are back in 2007 when the club is celebrating its in sr he said managing this football club not like managing any normal team is like looking after a country such is the level of support its history and its influence within egypt but for all its success success in egypt and within africa they've never reached a club world cup final before their best ever finish was back in 2006 when they

finished 3rd they do have the chance to repeat that now in a playoff against power maris of brazil that match could actually be better attended than the final which is coming up on thursday as well between by munich and seagrass of mexico. 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 stated stokes 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 of his former new england patriots teammate rob brown koski for the 1st touchdown the money helped persuade out of retirement to

join the books and it wasn't long before the pad teamed up again for another touchdown to send them further clear. they had 3 by halftime 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 his 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 net broke clear for touchdown number 4 sealing the title for tampa and superbowl number 7 for brady at these 6 with the patriots which means that he alone now has more than any single franchise for it is this right is this the crowning achievement not quite many 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

myself they were there were concerns pre-game that fans gathering to watch would lead to a spike in coded 19 cases but that didn't stop these tampa fans from so. liberating the 1st title since 200-2000 proud earlier where both saw their baby boats out there give us some fears on live t.v. break it down far cry and those who i take it over and over till the earlier very now had 0 i know how to cry tom brady wins it again next year that i make you cry and you know right now yes as the i did exit take it back out through the 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. broadcaster michael called son and asked him how likely it is that brady could go on and win super bowl number 8 that's really interesting question because the heart

needs of the senate to keep a successful together for a number of years and. that's what. was so good at doing at new england what frustrated me in the last couple of years is the level of talent around you got smaller. temp work won this game i mean much as brady played very well and it was doubtless the tents that really won this game and you wonder if we'll be able to bring back all brady's haircuts and walk ins was the key defensive players a lot of them are young and they would get seen but you never know about one or 2 star players who now have a super bowl ring and other teach what we know a lot of money they're really agents and then you have kids like the city who are also young and practice 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 seeger monday 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 2017 of the open. door the bitch open the defense of his title with ease number one secured a straight sets victory of a frenchman jeremy shaadi dropping just 6 games in an otherwise dominant will dominate team and alexander's very ever so true. 7 time formula one a world champion lewis hamilton has agreed a new deal to race for mercedes the season after months of delays the british driver has agreed to continue his relationship with the team for a 9th season we'll continue to partner with finnish driver valtteri bottas sadie's has also committed to greater diversity and inclusion across all of its motors for teens. pakistan have completed a 2 no cricket series victory over south africa after winning the 2nd test match in

rawalpindi the tourists were actually in a decent position at one stage aiden markham scoring a century as the south africans attempted to chase a target of 370 but the new ball in debate hopes gnarly taken 5 wickets as the pakistanis are wrapped up victory by 95 runs. also england will leave 9 wickets on the final day to win the 1st test against india the home to record 420 loans in chennai for the victory but more realistically they'll need to battle the entire day for the draw and not put 6 in this image but by the. ok at all the sports news charlie betty landed. thank you peter well that's it for me charlie and left for this news hour but i'll be back in a moment with more of the day's news. and

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