norm expressed served structural inequality in white a supreme black in its place the race for america part one on a just 0. think this is al-jazeera. back to bo this is a news hour live from our world headquarters in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. gunfire in myanmar capital as the military begins to crack down on an tycoon protesters setting a precedent hong kong's highest course denies bail to media tycoon jimmy nigh who

is facing charges on debate james national security long also this hour. i'm elizabeth brown in northern india where rescuers are attempting to free dozens of people trapped in a tunnel since a catastrophic flood ripped through this mountainous region. following the despicable attack on january the 6th there must there must be truth and accountability and the stage is set for donald trump's 2nd senate impeachment trial his noirs deny him cited supporters just on the capitol hill building. and i'm fina how motion to have all the supporters by munich reached the final of the club world cup plus england's cricketers wrap up a huge victory over india to take away one merely to end the series that. has to. pay. very much for joining us we begin with myanmar where the military has begun to

crackdown on protesters who've been rallying for a 4th straight day police fired guns into the air in the capital naypyidaw at least 27 people have been arrested in mandalay myanmar 2nd biggest city nationwide thousands of protesters are defying the military's ban on gatherings and are demanding the release of deposed civilian leader on sand sochi anger has also grown overseas in the last few hours new zealand became the 1st country to announce action against. every new zealander would be devastated to see. years of working to build a democracy and to see. what we've seen in recent days unfold lead by the military . strong message is we will do what we can from here in new zealand and one of the things we can do is suspending their high level dialogue at a political level we can put in place travel bans and we can make sure that the aid

funding we put into me does not in any way support the military regime now on monday myanmar self appointed leader appeared on television defending the co is from a new elections and better leadership. for a multi-party democratic system a free and fair election is important for the long term a system. when we have completed one year of this emergency law we will continue to proceed on to the 2008 constitution we will have a multi-party election and we will hand over power to the one who wins it not election according to the rules of democracy. live now to high levels following the situation in myanmar for us from across the border in thailand scott saw a 4th straight day of protests but the military now also stepping up its response tell us about what's been happening this tuesday 1st. vali they

absolutely have stepped up their response the security forces here across the border in myanmar know what happened you know we saw 3 days of large gatherings protests right across myanmar but really a low security presence force presence until monday morning there was a little bit of a back and forth in the capital with water cannon but today a completely different story on tuesday there was a live fire used as a turn to try to push protesters back more water cannon tear gas was used rubber bullets were used so a much stronger security presence security pushback in multiple locations across from the m.r. you know if we saw classes in yangon we saw clashes in april of the capital as well as mandalay the 2nd largest city so really kind of a push back from the security forces after a couple of days of large protests but peaceful and really no confrontation that has changed today will be interesting moving forward to see if this is kind of just

a probing situation where they wanted to see how the protestors reacted or this is going to continue i would imagine this will continue kind of as a hard line for the security forces as we move forward protesters saying they're resolute they're going to continue to come out they're going to continue with their civil disobedience movement right with their protests so it'll be interesting to see how to see how things unfold but right now that's where we stand so these protests caught who exactly is organizing them and what is it al to me that they're trying to achieve this at every turn to the arrangement the previous arrangement between the military and the civilian leadership or are they looking for something more now. right now is what the they want unsung suchi to be back the head of the civilian head of the government here they say that this coup. should never have happened it was illegitimate the claims by the military that the election back in november was fraudulent they want you know over

160 people have been detained since last monday they want them released immediately and that was to what who is out there and who is organizing this this is what's pretty interesting about this there's really no kind of single or even just a few handful of figures that have emerged as the top leaders organizers of this protest civil disobedience movement it's different groups labor unions teachers unions even civil servants. as well as student groups so it's a bunch of different groups that have come together in this common cause and they need to remember you know in that election was talking about that the government has called sorry the military has called fraudulent there was a landslide victory for on songs to cheese party the n l d so there are a lot of people in myanmar who really support or support her and love her but honestly so they are behind her and getting her back so that is why you have these kind of many different groups from all walks of life in myanmar coming together in

this movement and new zealand's con has become the 1st country to come out strongly against cisco and against the military we expecting other countries to follow suit . i would imagine we're going to start to see other countries take some action against myanmar you know there's been rhetoric that has come out from the united states even the u.n. security council came out saying that you know that this was in the best of situations but what's going to be interesting maybe on friday we'll hear a little bit more that's when the u.n. human rights commission committee will have a special hearing this was called this was request they should say by britain in the e.u. to discuss the situation in myanmar so maybe the members of that committee will go to their own nations and try to get something done or they'll try to do it together at the united nations or simply the fact that this is going to be discussed in this committee is something that will elevate the issue in the international community so either way it is definitely there's

a lot of international attention to it also internationally what's interesting international companies that have business interests with the myanmar military they have started to back off a brewery in japan has backed off with a deal with a brewery in myanmar that has that is connected to the military same happened with a tobacco company with a financier in singapore he has pulled back from a joint venture with the myanmar military so we're seeing that kind of economic pressure then also probably the increasing international pressure that hopefully will be you know discussed more in the coming days but definitely friday at the u.n. meeting thank you very much for that call hyde never importing them live from bangkok in thailand you know the world news well and have organization next very sad talking to the media about their 2 week visit to the chinese city of juan they've been investigating the origins of the corona virus pandemic and we expect them to announce some of their findings that speak to. force those in watching this news conference so what has the w.h.o.

team said so far about finding saturn. well the press conference is still underway it was a couple of hours late but they're certainly delivering the much anticipated summary of findings at the moment we have china's representative on the world health organization tame he's presenting what he's preliminary findings have found and he said the results of the molecular study they do believe that the corona virus did originate from animals they said they must focus on how the virus circulated in animals before it infected schumann's now they have identified bats and penguins which of long been blamed as the source of the crown of ours are saying these are potential candidates for transmission but the coronavirus samples which they found weren't identical to the covered sars 2 indications of genetic samples that they had they've also interestingly expanded the animal range that they will be investigating that said it's highly susceptible that the mix and cats might also be additional animals to be investigated they've suggested that there's

not enough research done in the past on these 2 species so not just penguins and bats they said also they could be and reported circulation of the crown of ice in other regions so not just one hand of course this world health organization team has been just in blue hand if the center of the upright for the last couple of weeks and that's been the focus of this investigation they said some cases might have been detected earlier than the 1st reports which was december 31st when the world health organization was told of the 4 cases of the mysterious virus ammonia which they found this saying that basically. the virus may have been detected prior to that you might recall at the end of january that's when the hand went into the $76.00 day lockdown is saying that the virus also could be highly adaptable within the human right environment which we're seeing traces of that globally at the moment but they're trying to establish that these preliminary findings that the 1st cases links to animals and the conclusion is obviously the most likely source is an

animal but i should state these are preliminary findings. only to have started on long specified and told inform the media this is the 1st studies stage of what could be a very long investigation they're also indicating of them after expand that investigation not just in. other regions as well sara thank you very much for that update hong kong stopped court has denied bail to media tycoon jimmy lie he is accused of fraud in conspiring with foreign forces on the bee gees controversial national security law his most high profile person among more than 100 people who have been arrested under the new legislation the 73 year old isare remain in custody until his trial is heard and chooses ruling is likely to set a precedent for future trials as david go polland reports from hong kong. to me ally was in ford for less than 10 minutes before you found out he would not be given bail so he has now been taken back into custody presumably presumably until

his trial on april 16th this is also the 1st trial by john hughes holmes new chief justice that took the helm on in january and he's told jimmy lies legal team but they can challenge this but not back at the courts of final appeal but so that sets a nother dilemma for jr and his legal team that's if you recall in december he was granted bail by one of the lower courts that was challenge by the department of justice who said the lower courts did not understand the tenets of the national security law and this is why jimmy life took his case or took his challenge to that ruling back to the courts of final appeal now this sets many kinds of precedents for one thing there was a lot of attention being paid to the it was the 1st case to reach the national security law case $3.00 to $4.00 courts of final appeal to me alive also had gotten bail would also set in other precedent meaning that those charges on the national

security law would be able to get bail but this ruling now essentially means that. unless you have the resources and means to challenge the national security law and the rulings given even before trial it is very unlikely you will get bail. daley is a human rights lawyer he says it's increasingly worrying how beijing is asserting its influence over judicial decisions. obviously jimmy law is very high profile. the and the wider issues are freedom of speech here. this ruling was just on bail but that's important there's a provision in there in a national security law. and the court has basically determined that that's a very high threshold to get bail. the usual understanding of bail is that

you know basically the the government has to do the running to show why they need to keep detained and here the court has upheld this quite draconian provision that says. that almost there's a presumption that you should be detained so that's kind of a reverse onus provision so that's very worrying for people who might be charged under this national security legislation the big wider question here is that the national security legislation ultimately the interpretation is left in the hands of the national people's congress or the standing committee so that's the concern if that's going to be used if they're going to change interpretations by our highest court again that would be a further erosion of the independent of the judiciary in hong kong. rescue workers in india trying to locate 197 people who are still missing 48 hours after a glacier collapse triggering flash floods let's take

a look at the area worst affected the collapse of part of the. cause water levels to rise in nearby rivers that power project was 1st to face the force of the floods the entire site was destroyed debris from that project's damaged energy plans downstream that includes the state run top of on hydroelectric plant which also suffered major damage this is a tunnel where more than 30 workers a trapped blueprints show the under construction tunnel was meant to connect the hydro project to the other side of the valley nearly 2 kilometers of the tunnel was built before the flood the tunnel was meant to carry water and divert river flow to an underground powerhouse now is a rough map of the actual tunnel itself and this point is where rescuers are digging in about 100 meters in right now and these are the 2 locations where they believe workers may be chopped rescuers say one state did beyond

a 100 meet 180 meet is they will find air pockets where survivors may be trapped but this is the one location in the tunnel where crews are pinning their hope it's got significant enough pockets send crews think anyone trapped here would have the best chance of survival. well let's get the latest now on rescue efforts and speak so it is a random who's outside a large tunnel near the power plant at top or van where people are trapped as we say it i know is that you've been speaking to 2 family members desperate to hear news of their loved ones who are trapped tell us 1st about what's happening where you are right now. absolutely folly we have been at the tunnel where rescue workers are continuing this search for the around 35 people who are working inside the tunnel when it flooded on sunday all day we have seen large digging excavation machines being used to bring mobs to bring sludge out of the

tunnel we spoke to the head of the joint rescue operation involved in the army the police national disaster response the navy and he said that they are all so many focused on reaching those pockets of air where they hope the men will be but he said that their biggest challenge right now is the sludge inside that any time they make any progress move a few meters ahead they are seeing a lot more sludge affording from inside the tunnel as they're doing all the as you know sniff it just enough the dogs standing by as well to help we have spoken to family members of at least one man who was working inside the tunnel they are understandably absolutely distraught they've been coming here before sunrise every day staying all day they said that they have no idea what's going on and they warre that rescuers haven't been able to make contact with anyone inside the tunnel on

sunday 12 people were rescued from another tunnel nearby and rescuers were able to get hold of them use of their mobile phones but that was a more shallow tunnel meanwhile while all of this is going on there's also been a lot of helicopters flying over us and that's because a number of villages including some on the other side of the hilt of the river to where we are from. cut off because bridges were washed away and helicopters are being used to deliver food rations to people in those villages right and early days in the investigation of course but increasing questions about why these dams were built there in the 1st place tell us more about that and also what one of the hopes of finding the other missing people. is there are i think nearly 200 maybe a little bit less than that number of missing people and there aren't a lot of hopes we spoke to one man who came here from the village of briny that's about 20 kilometers away the severely affected by the flooding and he came here

because his sister in law is missing and he heard that the district officials would be here at the tunnel and he wanted to seek their help the village of briony was that's where the smaller vishy ganga dam and power plant were completely washed away in the flood the fate of 125 people who worked on that is unknown and we saw a rescue boat boys about 4 hours from here searching for survivors all bodies and rescuers say that the flood was so powerful that bodies of being found really far away and environmentalist say that this is just the latest disaster the latest reason why such dams and hydroelectric power plants shouldn't be built in the himalayas which is an ecologically fragile area they have been protests in the past that have stopped the construction of of such projects botched there at the moment there are something like 50 hydro power plants including those under construction in this region off. that i comed thank you so much for that elizabeth run in with

the latest saffron topples on in northern india. more ahead on this news hour including they usually work quietly behind the scenes but as donald trump's 2nd impeachment trial approaches hundreds of congressional staffers are making their voices heard thus the crisis over haiti spread and see intensifies as the opposition claims the country's most senior judge will be when you need it and when you look at one of the fastest growing sports in the world paddle that's coming up when sports books up. to the u.s. now where donald trump's noirs have revealed more details of their defense strategy for a 2nd impeachment trial which gets underway later tuesday they deny he incited his supporters just on capitol hill and they're also arguing it's unconstitutional to hold a trial of a former president but democrats prosecuting say he has no valid defense. force in

washington. we fight we fight like hell and if you don't fight like hell you're not going to have a country anymore those were some of donald trump's last words on january 6th moments before a violent mob fired up by his false claims that the election had been stolen broke into the u.s. capitol and tried to stop congress from making joe biden's win official for rioters and a police officer died in the attack 2 more officers later died by suicide the grounds for this impeachment are deeply deeply troubling and if the united states senate acquits donald truong this round it's essentially a green light for 'd future presidents to try to overthrow elections close to the end of their terms house democrats bring the charges against alleged intentionally

whipped his supporters into a frenzy inciting an insurrection trump's attorney. say the trial is unconstitutional because he's no longer in office and that the former president's speech was protected by the 1st amendment robert ray defended trump during his 1st impeachment i don't think the words as charged in the impeachment article go fight like hell can be you know seen as chance amount to a call to violence 45 of 50 republicans in the senate try to dismiss the trial on grounds that it is unconstitutional they failed but the early vote showed republicans are now falling back in life behind the former president and the likelihood of convicting trump is slim as the impeachment managers will nevertheless try to present an emotionally charged case forcing senators to relive the hours they spent cowering for their lives inside the capital fearing american

democracy was on the verge of collapse trump has refused a request to testify although it's become clear that this trial is not just about his guilt or innocence it is also about politics with senators weighing how their verdict on trump will also impact their own grasp on power. castro al-jazeera washington. congressional aides have documented their experiences during the capitol hill riot in a senators to convict shabba times he has more on that from washington. hundreds of congressional staffers who were trapped on capitol hill as a morgue rampage through congress and generally the 6 are speaking out they've written an open letter to senators demanding that donald trump be held accountable and convicted at his impeachment trial absolute concern is driving a letter concerned for the safety of our democracy the safety of our lives that was put in danger. and has

a thing staffers we don't speak of this is for we don't we usually speak to our members about what issues are not members speak on behalf of those issues. and religion both for describe a chaotic terrifying scene that day and you see those couple 100 people trying to thousands of people. quickly we're in our office i mean see we alert that a pipe bomb has been in place close to our building a mile wall what do you mean a pipe bomb. now we need to shelter in place it was terrifying. in hindsight i should have been i'm more afraid but i you know my faith guys knew so i was glad you know i know who i am but that side of that if i hadn't known what i know now i would have been. even more concerned than what i am now the letters signed by almost 400 congressional staffers claims trumps the road that mold was incited by

former president donald j. trump it says on his political allies some of whom we passed every day in the hallways at work both of how to help republican staffers resist i got it but it wasn't to be it wasn't a. partisan experience it wasn't a partisan letter it didn't condemn either party they condemned the person unilaterally responsible. for the insurrection. and so i felt some of the staffers who were afraid for their lives and barricade in their offices who would find it necessary would be open to signing this letter and i can't say that they weren't open to it i can't speak to something i'm not certain of but i can only speculate that they may be feared retaliation. is likely to be on display in the sort of chamber during the trial with most republicans in reading making it clear they will not vote to convict or drop the older 0 and republican

ron bryant has become the 1st sitting member of the u.s. congress to die after contracting covert 19 right died on sunday in a dollar's hospital he announced less than 3 weeks ago that he and his wife had contracted the virus the 67 year old was honored by his colleagues sharing a moment of silence on monday. the united nations says a convoy carrying humanitarian aid has reached central african republic the 1st since rebel groups brock's the border with cameroon last month 13 of $108.00 trucks have had had been blocked they managed to transport food and medicine into the capital bangui a surge in violence linked to the disputed elections in december has a space more than 200000 civilians in syria are in somalia opposition leaders say they no longer recognize president mohamed up to life armando after his term expired without new elections has been embroiled 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 our diplomatic editor james space 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 him 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 in what was supposed to be a pivotal year for the troubled country this year i am a saw on the 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 factor un security council will now meet to discuss the situation on cheese day james al-jazeera of the united nations. and still ahead on the news iran begins rolling out covert 1000 vaccines frontline health workers get the 1st jobs. micro finance gone wrong we take a look at why nigeria's government desponding to take legal action against thousands of rice spotless and in sports rafael nadal stocks his 21st grand slam title i said the australian open details with santa later in the show just take this room back after the show.

when the snow on the ground you tend to get cold nights the snow that's falling is moving through the northeast of europe but this area here this tucked in here is the real cold stuff everything else has been staying down through spade and measuring up to the eastern side of europe so temperatures overnight at minus 14 in the scottish highlands minus $25.00 in parts of estonia that's how cold it's going to get it wasn't picking mountains these are low and size even coastal by day we come up to single figures but below freezing for the most part vilnius is minus 11 and you see the snow is that's the snow that was falling more or less the same sort of stuff over the netherlands couple days ago this is now the age where warmth beats cold that's for in through austria and back towards the alps deep in the south would be in this condition palermo 19 or 20 is in the warm belt but the warm won't win this battle is something of

a battle lost warsaw sits in the real cold it does get colder when the snow stops the wind is dying and. snow cover is going to be cold but sunny and paris still gets the benefit of the wind is 0 degrees or lower than that caltex and talks of the balkans during thursday. jump into the story there is a lot going on in and join our global community when i talk about the misinformation i think we are more afraid than we are aware be part of the debate don't ever take anybody's one word because there's always a difference when no topic is off the table we have been disconnected from our land we have been disconnected from who we are who live love to hear from you and be part of today's discussion this dream on out is there. as information on the government's response is to convert 19 across the world emerges. as

a. deeply disturbing question. people in power investigates allegations of systemic discrimination against upon demick disabled victims. has there been a shameful failure to protect some of the world's most vulnerable. disabled victims to. welcome back you're watching the news hour on al-jazeera with me thoroughly back to our reminder of the top stories police have fired guns into the air in myanmar's capital naypyidaw to disperse protesters that's according to the reuters news

agency at least 27 people have been arrested and demonstrators have been hits by water cannon. on kong's top court has denied bail to media tycoon jimmy the 73 year old is accused of fraud and conspiring with foreign forces under beijing's national security. and almost 200 people are still missing in northern india after a glacier collapsed on sunday triggering flash floods rescue crews are digging through a block's tunnel hoping to free more than 30 power plant workers trapped inside. more on our top story on the protests in myanmar let's take a look now at how the military has use its business activities to strengthen its rule over the country a united nations report points to more than one $140.00 companies that are owned or controlled by myanmar's military the list includes banks mining conglomerates construction firms and even gas and water companies their businesses are closely

linked to state owned enterprises and launch private firms together they kasich a huge slice of myanmar's economy well let's speak to chris sidoti about all this he is a co-author of the report the economic interests of the myanmar military and also a former expert member of the un international independent fact finding mission on myanmar is via skype from sydney thank you very much mr saddam for being with us in his 1st televised speech since the coup on monday we heard me on mars military leaders say that military rule would be different this time around and interestingly he said they welcomed foreign investment so they clearly worried about sanctions and being isolated just 1st of all why is the military in all these businesses to make money pure and simple the military has always been interested in maximising the income of the individual generals of the talk and more broadly

funding military operations they take around 12 to 30 percent of the state budget in may so there's a lot of money going into the military from the state budget but they increase the increase they take through all of these business enterprises and the rich in themselves through it so we've seen this vast empire lots of businesses but to what extent do they rely on outside revenue and what effect would sanctions have on them. in relation to the 1st question we really can't give a precise answer and that is the extent of the amount that they actually get from outside revenue we can only get general indications through those foreign companies that published reports and the money is substantial it clearly very very great sums of money that is going into them sanctions are important because the military feels the pressure of economic isolation there's no doubt about that and so the decision

announced last week by the japanese company kiran to withdraw from a joint venture with the military in may and must largest brewery is a very important decision kiran had previously stopped paying dividends to the military and now as announced it will withdraw from the joint venture this kind of pressure is absolutely essential at this time now that the military has retaken control state right what do you think about it they where may know meaningful consequences for the military after their $27000.00 campaign against the running of muslims in fact a u.n. report found that the military has vast business empire enabled it to conduct operations without impunity they basically got away with it why do you get a feeling that it would be different this time around and in what way and what other ways can the international community actually support this going on tycoon movement in myanmar. well that report that you referred to was the report of the fact finding mission of which i was

a member so it's our work and we've continued as individuals to promote the recommendations that report of a since i think to take the example of karen again their decision as a result directly of some of the work that is being done by us but also by a large number of non-government organizations to ensure implementation of those recommendations just last week a 1000000 my non-government organization called justice for me in my produced an even more comprehensive list of military economic activities and of individual military officers who are associated with them it's also listed international and domestic private sector companies that are in bed with the military so the pressure is mounting and the pressure is on the military directly and on its partners to cut off the dollars to cut off supplies and there are very few ways in which we can influence events in manama but what is happening at the moment is

a tragedy and the very least we can do is to stop funding the military right but if this pressure continues do you think do you think n.b.c. china which has been seen to support the military do you think they would fail the vacuum if they were targeted sanctions against myanmar military is there as much support from beijing as there was in the past. well perhaps china would move to fill the vacuum but china's got a very mixed relationship with the man nonmilitary china for example agreed to the statement of the un security council last week and that statement although not especially strong represented a significant advance on what the security council has been able to agree previously so i don't think we should make assumptions about what china will or will not do china has an interest in stability in its neighborhood and the military does not raised ability to me and thank you so much mississippi for speaking to us about this chris sidoti. sasha human rights expert joining us now from sydney we

appreciate your time. thanks very much. and the u.s. state department has defended the removal of yemen's who feel rebels from it's a terrible but the u.s. says it will continue to pressure the who face for what it calls reprehensible conduct was in jordan has more on that from washington. late last week the by ministration notified congress that it's going to reverse one of the trumpet ministrations final acts in all this designating the who plays a member of not one but 2 terrorist group lists we notified the hill of the secretary's intent to revoke the foreign terrorist organization and specially designated global terrorist as the nations of on surveillance we did that late last week we have also been very clear about a 2nd element of this intent to revoke that designation has nothing to do with our view of the who these and their reprehensible conduct including as you mentioned

attacks against civilians in the kidnapping of american citizens i'm among other moves we are committed as we again said last night to helping saudi arabia defend its territory against further such attacks. our planned action the secretary's intent to delist is due as i said before to the humanitarian consequences of this last minute doesn't nation we can do 2 things at once the u.s. is also underscoring the fact that not only is it going to be working with the u.n. special envoy for yemen martin griffiths but that it has its old on void delta linder king a veteran u.s. diplomat in efforts to try to end the yemeni civil war that's been going on since 2014. palestinian factions are holding in brokered talks aimed chiral fatah and hamas will be discussing the constellation and standing internal divisions ahead of the 1st elections in more than 50 years last month president

mahmoud abbas said legislative and presidential votes will be held in may and july the factions are aiming to build a united front against israel. demick 9 iran is beginning its mass vaccination program frontline health workers are amongst the 1st to receive the russian developed sputnik vaccine doses jabari has more from tehran the 1st person to receive the job was the health minister's own son who had volunteered to be the 1st person in the country to be vaccinated the president said that he hopes this will be the 1st step in the country combating this virus and overcoming it eventually iran has ordered so far 2000000 of this vaccine from russia they've also older ordered another 16000000 through kovacs program of other vaccines that they hope to receive in the coming months the health officials that said that their mass vaccination program won't really have the effect that they want in terms of

mass immunization until the beginning of next year but this is certainly been seen as a welcome start to that goal the other people who receive this vaccine initially will be health care frontline workers there's 430000 of them so the 1st group of people in the country will be those workers have to remember iran is one of the hardest hit countries in this region with one point nearly 1500000 people infected and the death toll is reaching close 260000 there has been the number of waves that iranians have seen in this country they are now expecting a 4th wave to come into the country in the next few months but the health officials are warning there are trying to prevent that from taking place by urging people to continue to observe the protocols that are set up by them. haiti now an opposition politicians there have named their own president in an effort to drive out

incumbents of anomalies joseph miss and john we who has been selected as a new leader is the oldest judge in the country supreme court the opposition says president releases 1st year time expired on sunday but maurice says he still has another year in office more than 20 people were arrested on sunday in an alleged plot john we has released a video message accepting the appointment by haiti's opposition. following the resolution of the judiciary officially noting the end of the constitutional mandate of the president of the republic has excellent seems to recover no more use on the 7th of february 2021 i declare that i accept the choice of the opposition and civil society to serve my country as in term president of the transition of rupture. when our is a professor at the state university of haiti she explains our haitians have reacted . the mood is quite somber i would say the streets are quiet except for the sporadic protests that we've been having that have been violently

repressed so it's a pretty somber evening here in right now i think the intent here is to get as close back to the constitution as we can so to get to be closer to what they now on sufficient tells us to do and so choosing their all this judge from the left is in line with the constitution's intent close friends of the family were arrested as far as i know is the treatment since they've been detained has been decent that is what we have heard but of course we are all very anxious and worried because there is no way to know what will happen if that will continue we've been having protests for over 2 years now so as long as noise stays in power i think there will continue to be protests and i think there will also continue unfortunately to be repression colombia is to grant protective legal status to hundreds of thousands of

undocumented refugees and migrants from venezuela a temporary measure will make them eligible to apply for 10 years of residency permits colombia has long been the most popular destination for venezuelans fleeing the economic and political crisis at home close to a 1000000 are thought to be living in the country without proper papers and i'm sure the economy here the announcement by colombia to grant temporary protection for venezuelans in that a territory for a 10 year period is an emblematic humanitarian gesture for the region and even for the whole world this initiative is an extraordinary sign of humanity a commitment to human rights and pragmatism. to nigeria now where officials say they're planning to take thousands of farmers to court for failing to repay loans they took out to cultivate rice more than a 1000000 farmers were given cash in tours to boost local production and help reduce food imports but thousands of farmers say they won't repay the loans raising

concerns the scheme may collapse. forced. to watch as closely as time hands prepare a new plan to feel so a new crop a few meters away other workers tend to shoot my going to use one of nigeria's major rice produces with hundreds of hectares of land dedicated to growing rice is a serious thomas like him are benefiting from a government loan scheme to boost domestic production but says a scheme faces risks there must be. no. nor whether they are to mention. giving them. then to be idle and through those they are. what i've given to i think. it's a 34 member from a school project and says they weren't taught there have anything back.

if it was made clear to us that it's a loan we have 9 house approaches we didn't apply for it so i can tell you that we won't pay back a dime not all of it was money we consider it is gifts or systems after all we see politicians take public funds with no accountability. the so-called i could borrow a scheme encourages thomas a small holdings to produce a variety of commodities and to connect produces with process. but 5 years after the program was introduced nigeria's to leave port the scheme was meant to produce a nexus sister interview team an estimated $600000000.00 has been provided to more than a 1000000 farmers to boost rice production critics of the process say it's corrupt and lacks transparency they accuse government officials and politicians of hijacking a scheme that could now collapse because of a failure to pay back their loans. an estimated 40 percent of those who've received

money the field or refused to fully repay some officials say that often and the stumble very slow but one can understand that for one reason or other some pain is sometimes come this look especially the last time we had a flood so you can imagine our farmers lost a whole lot africa's most populous nation has 34000000 hectares of arable land but only 33 percent is on the production this country of more than 200000000 people imports much of what it eats. agree cultural experts say that's because farming technology is out of date and if the government doesn't encourage mechanization. nothing will change. al-jazeera are going. and still ahead on the news hour by munich recess final of the club world cup here in qatar that's next in small spots and i just.

mean. time for us. thank you very much a funny well let's start with cricket and england to have. wrapped up a huge victory over india in the 1st test and she and i came in the senate took some kiwi kids early on day 5 and the momentum stayed with the visiting team captain for actually led the fight for india was 72 but they were eventually all out 492 england won by 227 runs and they go up one up one up in the

4 match series they're now won 6 matches in a row after from home after their wins in south africa and sri lanka set benchmark got something to work for. still so. there is we can. get excited me quite as well as you have. rafael nadal chase for 21st grand slam title has started in emphatic manner with a straight sets win in his opening match at the australian open a spaniard dropped out of the a.t.p. cup last week after struggling with a back problem but the world number 2 showed no signs of injury in this match we overcame his serbian opponent last year this is 636-4612 move to 2nd round and has won the australian open once when have you wanted to further back in 2009.

and one of the biggest upsets in the tournament so far came in the women strong 2 time champion victoria as enka has been knocked out in the 1st round by 6 either just sick or hula by the russian was well short of her best in this match and appeared to be struggling with the warm weather in australia as a writer also told the person that the 14 days quarantine took its toll on. something that you know maybe we just didn't know what to do or maybe it was not enough time you know i can sit here and cancer played for a long period of time but. it was a feeling prepared for leno but also going into a grand slam. or at tournaments like ok i'll have to do the best i can with what i have the defending champions have here can got off to a very nervous star than her title defense the american was in tears before her my

take yes no for a while thought nothing in case cannon was broken twice in the 1st set but she quickly recovered to be at the australian in straight sets 7564. corner virus lockdowns have meant a huge reduction in the amount of sport played worldwide but sweden's unique approach to the pandemic has had the opposite effect and the game of paddle the tradition is spanish and latin american sport has taken off in the scandinavian country with famous investors recording huge profits in 2020 poorest reports. it's lunchtime in sweden and the courts in melbourne and helsingborg are fully booked most sports have struggled during the pandemic but pottle has bucked the trend with sweden's relatively few restrictions meaning that 2020 was its best year yet this place to open up between 20142015 so that it was really easy to get

times when it was completely out and in the last 2 years has been absolutely booming. is the sport on everyone's lips and it's insane $450.00 new courts were built around the country last year and bookings hit the $1000000.00 mark 5 times higher than in 2018. footballers including zlatan abraham of it have invested in paddle and recorded instant profits former tennis world number 4 spear common is involved in p.d.l. group now the sport's biggest operates a worldwide the top men's players these days with a different racket daniel vin doll and call knute son although paddle is so dominated by spain and argentina that the 2 best swedish men are at number 142 and 147 in the world. being in spain it's like it's football than it's power and that it's possible but sweden have been developing really fast and we see

the x.x. the same thing happening so you know it's still at the amateur level that the sport is really thriving the basics are easy to pick up especially when there's the chance to learn from the best straight off the bat the swedish pottle thing has become so strong it's now attracting players and coaches from spain meaning even beginners can get a top level one on one training. it's a give and take relationship for spanish players like world number 87 jose carlos gasp are being in sweden gives him the chance to up his game. here now to politics like rowing a lot here and there are like measurable quantities for players i cannot assume their physical training is because in a span i was one of the mess and here we have 3 i and i and there was the luck of luck down in sweden has helped the sport thrive here. once the pandemic ends it

should mean puddle gets a relaunch in the rest of the world as well paul aris al-jazeera malmo sweden. robert levon dusky was the star of the show as by munich cruised into the final of the club world cup here in qatar the european champions beat african tempting me to an el in their semifinal if dust is called both goals in front of the $12000.00 fans at the an island stadium which is one of the venues for next year's world cup by now heading into the final to play the conquered champions league this from mexico i know that you could there's been a time when of course happy to reach the final and to play in front of fans again it's not something we've been used to in the last year we've achieved our goal of getting to the final and now we've got the chance to win the tournament. the international olympic committee says comments made by

a head of the tokyo games are about women are totally inappropriate 83 year old. mori said the last week that meetings involving women last longer because they talked too much or he's apologized but there have been calls for his resignation and hundreds of elim pick up volunteers have now resigned over the matter i know you have heard it they're going to have about 390 volunteers have quit because they were upset about you shira maurice remarks and are unwilling to cooperate with the games i think this is very serious in order to hold the games we need to make efforts to regain trust and to have the event to deliver the message of diversity and harmony i mean and the n.b.a. le bron james led the l.a. lakers to their 5th when he wrapped up his 3rd triple double of the season against the oklahoma city thunder a 28 points 14 rebounds a 12 assist the lakers won it by 7 points and overtime that's it for me and i thank

you very much we'll see you later that's it for this news hour on al-jazeera but do stay with us we've got plenty more world news coming up very shortly laura khai is with you next. frank assessments you've got colleagues on the ground in the canaries what is the situation there's only one doctor and one nurse or $1.00 to $200.00 people informed opinions on how big this foreign policy figure in the early stages of of this ration he comes into office with a huge amount of foreign policy experience in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines how will

a place like you live get the vaccine when there's no money and all the rest of rich countries are fighting for it inside story on al-jazeera. as a weapon of war leaves the very deep a scar those. scars so rule that the victims men and women can barely talk about. they are the only witnesses who can help bring about justice al-jazeera follows human rights campaigners in libya investigating since the 2011. libya unspeakable crime on al-jazeera the latest news as it breaks human rights groups are questioning why people are taken to this isolation senators and the tweet meant they received one fair there with detailed coverage beyond groups now control the villages that we can see on the other side of the river people who live on this side they can hear gunfire when they're fighting from around the world

months after that i will cain eruption they see their harvest right now back to normal. understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world so no matter where you go home will be the news and current affairs that matter to you. you. know. gunfire in minerals capital as protesters ignore a military ban on gatherings. though there are more of this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up hong kong's highest court denies bail to media tycoon jimmy lai who faces charges under beijing's national security law.