this is al jazeera. hello again i'm peter derby you're watching the news our live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes thousands back on the streets of me in ma for a 5th straight day protesting against last week's military coup also. i'm elizabeth random in northern india where the rescue operation to find 35 men missing in a tunnel is continuing 3 days after a devastating floods swept through the region. expect a heated debate about travel to the u.k. the parliament there wants answers about plans to quarantine visitors in hotels for

10 days. opening arguments by prosecutors on day 2 of donald trump's 2nd impeachment trial will be live on capitol hill with a preview. and in s'pore a nervous day at the australian open for defending mess champion novak djokovic are 7 time champion that serena williams eases for to the 3rd round. court equaling 24th grand slam title. now we begin in myanmar where thousands of protesters have returned to the streets the day after violence broke out when crowds confronted the security forces it's now the 5th straight day of demonstrations against last week's military coup mean mars military rulers have imposed a curfew in the 2 biggest cities young gone and mandalay and they've also banned big gatherings water cannon and rubber bullets were used against protesters on

tuesday and we found one of the few western journalists based in myanmar has more now from young gone. thank you people have been talking to the streets again when our 2nd day since they declared martial law and young gone underground on part of the country but it doesn't seem to have the protesters we've seen that just as many numbers if not more coming out today and yesterday and depending on the area you go to rhyme chiron the atmosphere is very different you can see behind me here it's nearing the end of the day still quite a few people milling around in this area this is the central neighborhood near the city hall it's an area soon a central dine time president almost the festival atmosphere and you could hear you michael jackson singing the singing protest songs behind me and there's been a lot of a very jubilant feeling here for the other cats in the city there's been much more

tension on the screen and that in and police protests the standoff in let that be further north in the city and i was there for several hours yesterday and they want to come in and the little. can right nice and close the protesters but protesters take it on the stand getting on great greats instead of instead like in response to the wall to crowd and there was 7 some military in the background which would definitely make people out there that nothing so far as happens here in the other part of the primary that we have seen much more brutal crackdown and there's a fear that that will spread. well for more on the protests reports now from bangkok. a day after a violent crackdown by security forces people are again protesting against the coup on the streets of myanmar. in yangon some took to bicycles to show their support for the growing civil disobedience movement. some gathered at the japanese embassy

to elevate their plight to the international community. a message wall was also set up for people to leave their comments and thoughts about the coup last week and in mandalay they came out on motorbikes and on foot earlier in the week here protesters were injured by water cannon blasts and dozens were arrested. more groups and unions have joined the growing movement including civil servants in the capital neighbor dorm they're all calling for the return to democracy and the release of their elected leaders including on song suchi. students and young people are emerging as critical players in the protests many see their future at stake and was so much on the line they're willing to put themselves in harm's way but i'll tell the guy loud that those students are going to struggle under the military dictatorship that's why we're here on the streets giving our life to get our democracy back. she's not alone this young protesters taking part in a poster campaign supporting the civil disobedience movement. when i'm here with

all these people i'm not scared i have no fear at her you know. the u.n. representative in myanmar has called the security services use of force against the protesters disproportionate and unacceptable the united states said it's reviewing assistance to me and mark again called on the junta to step down we repeat our calls for the military to relinquish power restore democratically elected government release those detained and list all telecommunication restrictions so while the younger generations in myanmar are taking bold and risky steps to get involved with the protests by insisting on access to social media they're putting their own twist on scott toddler al-jazeera. rescuers are using drones to search inside a tunnel where 35 work went up believed to be trapped in the indian state of what sort of calmed the tunnel and much of the surrounding area was flooded on sunday when i see a collapsed power plant some roads were destroyed 32 people have died at least 190

are still missing rescuers spent days removing enough temporary to allow teams to enter the tunnel elizabeth oran is at the site of the tunnel collapse with this report. it is day 3 sons the flood search and rescue workers are continuing their search for the men who were in this tunnel when it flooded on sunday they are removing large amounts of sludge and they're trying to reach 180 meters from the entrance because they believe that if the men are alive the best chance of finding them remains pockets of air which are 180 meters from here they were able to dig up to about 110 meters yesterday but by this morning it was only 120 meters the rescue team say that large amounts of sludge keep pouring in as they clear more and they also say that if the men are alive they will be suffering from severe hypothermia given it's been nearly 3 days since the flood hit meanwhile relatives of the men

are continuing to come here to watch the rescue efforts and there's been a small protest by frustrated residents who say that the rescue efforts aren't moving fast enough there is going to be a meeting with all of the agencies involved as the police and army navy disaster response even the india tibet border police personnel to decide how to move forward given it has been nearly 72 hours and rescue teams say that those 72 hours after such a disaster are the most crucial in saving lives. ok turning our attention to europe a new hotel koren seen measures are expected to dominate prime minister's question time in the british parliament today now that's because as of february 15th. people traveling to the u.k. from red list countries will have to quarantine in a hotel for 10 days the government is asking hotels near c. and airports to join the scheme but there are concerns about capacity not in barber joins us live from london now dean british prime minister boris johnson has been

defending the border policy what's he been saying oh yes you're right he has been under attack at prime minister's questions in parliament from kiss starmer leader of the labor opposition who's accused boris johnson of repeated delays in securing britain's borders against variants of the coveted 19 virus so. kids storm has said according to oxford university at least $33.00 countries around the world have tougher border controls and he's asked boris johnson why the government only acted after 50 days after the discovery of the so-called south african variant to announce these new measures for people arriving interview k. which start next monday will boris johnson refuted that he said that the u.k. does have one of the toughest border regimes in the world his words and he said that normally at this time of year you'd have around a quarter of

a 1000000 arrivals into the u.k. every day well it's down to $20000.00 people and he says that many of those people coming into the u.k. are involved in bringing vital food and medicines he said but the policy that has been announced is measured and proportionate but it's not just about the quadrantid but also about possible penalties for people who don't follow the rules and what are the plans for anyone arriving into an airport or a seaport in the u k. well this is the bone of contention you are saying that the people from a list of 33 so-called red list countries will have to go into a designated hotel to quarantine for 10 days they'll have to pay for it it could cost them around $2.00 and a half $1000.00 but now we're told that they if they try to hide where they've traveled from if they try to if they lie about having been in one of those red list

countries they could face a fine of up to $14000.00 and up to 10 years is in jail will many of boris johnson's own members of parliament from the conservative party very worried about that a former attorney general has said that is disproportionate the labor party have said that this shouldn't be an alternative for an effective coronating system because they're calling for all arrivals into england to be put into one of those quarantine hotels people from countries outside the list can actually go home they have to say where they're going but then they can go where they want they're being told that they'll have to pay for 'd coverage 900 test on day 2 and day 8 of their quarantine labor says that's not going far enough for many commentators are saying that these stringent penalties will actually be applied it's hard to know where the truth lies but clearly the government is trying to send the message that they will

get tough with anybody who doesn't comply with those rules and let's not forget that traveling abroad is banned from the u.k. for anyone except for essential journeys or people are going on holiday they hope that anyone who does arrive in the u.k. will know and comply with all those rules thank you very much in any of their reporting live from london. the european commission president has expressed regrets over the flu vaccine rollout. the lion admitted the targets have not been met and the block. and where it wanted to be in the fight against the virus not understand simple resigned lame we were late with the approval we were too optimistic on mass production and perhaps here also to certain that the orders would actually be delivered on time. ok joining us now on the new policy analyst peter clapper in brussels peter klepper welcome back to al-jazeera is the central problem here the way that the negotiation of the original contracts with pfizer biotech went to the

european commission they're bureaucrats they never do things quickly. well i think that's one possible explanation why do european commission was so slow so misfolded ally and she actually pointed at the european medicines agency being a little slow in approving the vaccines but i think the real problem here lies with the european commission and its responsibility to procure to it to buy the vaccines the united states and the u.k. balts the pfizer vaccine in july whereas the commission waited until november 20 twentieth's do that also for the astra zeneca vaccine. you is 3 months 3 months slower than the u.k. so it's really hard to find excuses for that and indeed the explanation looks like that they they all did it in a in an politicized manner they didn't half the kind of specialists on it that

that were made responsible for this in israel in the united kingdom but whatever the reason is they are incredibly slow as compared to other countries ok here's the thing you mentioned the u.k. this at this point in the fight against covert 1000 coronavirus how can the e.u. be in a situation where hungary romania and poland are making the best of what was not a very good lot to start with the u.k. is doing very well but it's astonishing that the vaccination rollouts the rates of people being vaccinated in france and germany is actually slowing down. all in the greece so apart from the mistakes made at the e.u. level. also a number of member states seem to be very slow and it's hard to understand why. is it because of vaccine skepticism in france perhaps that plays

a role is it because of their accorsi. i mean the fact of the mother is in the ear countries are making the best out of it are also being humbled by the slow e.u. they're still making the best out of it whereas others in need to are doing very poorly with when it comes to the vaccine roll outs do you think the european commission under seal of underlying has learnt a lesson here and it might be you do not have a public spat with a drug manufacturer as they were doing just a few weeks ago because it came out it went into the public domain as a lot of people from the commission were trying to basically negotiate a good deal i mean they weren't buying a 2nd hand car they were trying to keep people alive. well indeed i mean this is an enormously important responsibility that was given to the european commission the body that is always austin for more money and power now they want

what is called a european health union so basically more money and power for health. policy transfers to the to the evil level i mean i think their response tells you everything you need to know because it's one thing that things go wrong it's another how you respond to it on the lie and the commission president should try to shift the blame 1st she tried to blame or trade commissioner who had actually wrote to little to do with all of this to mentally today she admitted that indeed mistakes had been mates so some kind of a hole hole fart at the admission of failure but in the end we got it right she said completely ignoring the facts on the ground which is that we will not only half economic damage the fact that low downs will have to stay longer or done otherwise would have been necessary but also that more people will sadly passed away as

a result off of the slow moving european commission ok we'll have to leave it there in brussels always good to get your thoughts on this developing story peter thank you very much. thank you lots more ground still to cover for you here on the news hour including mystery still surrounding last month's fatal indonesians plane crash investigators combed through evidence to find the cause a lifeline to the outside world for people in gaza as a border crossing stays open for the 1st time in years plus. i'm on the richardson at the club world cup in qatar whereby munich are insights of a unique trophy sweep seagrass of mexico can stop the. bomb on the softer an aircraft crashed into the java sea carrying $62.00 passengers indonesian investigators say it's still too early to determine what caused the

disaster these 3 we crushed in and is indonesia's 3rd major aviation crash in 6 years jessica washington explains. in fibrous ambulance of the remains of a young family a woman named her and her youngest daughter. a mother can barely handle her grief divers later found the remains of romani a 6 year old daughter and now they are all buried together here in her hometown of could be. scenes like this have played out across the country since the sri would crash in january. we are in shock and very sad it is a big disaster for us 3 of our family members died at once why did this happen to our family grieving families of the 62 passengers on board the flight from jakarta are trying to come to terms with the sudden tragedy. one month since the crash in tunisia as transport safety commission has released its preliminary investigation

confirming they're looking into issues with the plane's auto throttle as well as other factors but i've ation experts say it's still too soon to say what caused the crash and without the cockpit voice recorder determining exactly what went wrong is almost impossible. while the search continues for the voice recorder the commission is looking into several potential factors which may have contributed to the crash site the name among it but about all we what we know so far is that the lift or throttle was moving downward but whether it was caused by a malfunction we still don't know because both frontal showed anomalies. the tree with dry air crashes into the 3rd major aviation disaster in 60 is why you want to do it is a diver who volunteered to help with the search operation to help find the human remains he worked on all 3 recent crashes and says despite the risks associated with the task the heaviest burden is the emotional toll but. i also

found several items of children's clothing including a marvel shirt this was so emotional for me we also found the purser to get the child aviation experts say there is room for improvement but the industry has taken positive steps some of the airlines have caught up with global standards also in some cases and see that you know we need to make sure that it is evenly spread but for the many families that progress wasn't enough to save their loved ones and while they wait to find out what went wrong they are forced to say sudden painful goodbyes jessica washington al-jazeera jakarta. the u.s. senate is set to reconvene in just a few hours time for the impeachment trial of the former president donald trump on tuesday the senate rejected the defense argument that it's unconstitutional to

prosecute a president after he has left office the house impeachment managers will now have 16 hours spread over the next 2 days to present their cases a 2 thirds majority is required to convict mr trump over inciting in sarette action people died that day officers ended up with head damage and brain damage people's eyes were get out after a heart attack after lost 3 fingers that day 2 officers have taken their own lives senators this cannot be our future this cannot be the future of america we cannot have presidents inciting and mobilizing mob violence against our government with this trial you will open up new and bigger wounds across the nation for

a great many americans see this process for exactly what it is a chance by a group of partisan politicians seeking to eliminate donald trump from the american political scene. white house correspondent kimberly hell good is standing by for us at the white house 1st let's go to capitol hill correspondent joe castro so. all of the proceedings what can we expect in the coming hours. today is the 1st official day that they impeach or managers will make the case against donald trump for this article of impeachment accusing him of inciting an insurrection and we expect that the story that the managers will lay out will begin not just on january 6th the day of that rioting but much earlier they'll touch on trump's comments to reporters over the summer before the election saying that he would not refuse he would not commit to peaceful transfer of power to talk about the debate in which

trump was asked to denounce the extremists that were supporting him rather than do that he said that there would be fraud in the upcoming election and he told his supporters to stand by then the days before the election happened trump endorsed attack on a biden campaign bus when some of his supporters some of trump's supporters in texas surrounded that bus and try to run it off the road and then of course come election night transfer fusil to concede a lie he's began sewing that evening that he had been the one that won the election and of course the litany of lawsuits that were either rejected or tossed out of court one by one because they lacked merit that was a judgment coming even from the u.s. supreme court and then peter managers will argue that those events led the supporters of president trump to reach one conclusion that they had no other recourse then to take actions into their own hands which set the stage for january

6th during that rally will likely hear president former president trump's words repeated once again to senators in which he told supporters to march to the capitol to fight like hell. that is what the managers that say that final match thrown by trump to light the flame that ended up being the violence that we experienced here in january and i should say that for 2 days the peach managers will have to lay out those arguments and then of course it will be the former president's team to counter those they will likely focus on january 6th the words of trump himself and which he did say quote for the supporters to march peacefully impeach riyadi to the capitol to have their voices heard so you'll likely have that being parsed out with a continued argument again at this trial as unconstitutional even though that was rejected by the simple majority of senators yesterday well it may be convincing

enough for 2 thirds of the senate to acquit trump which is the likely outcome heidi thanks very much as you can strut their reporting live from capitol hill live for us here on the news outside the white house correspondent kimberly the in washington so complete story as the by the administration there signaling loud and clear look we've got much more important stuff to do coronavirus and the economy. absolutely in fact the words of joe biden were just that in the oval office he said that he has a job to do and that is to save lives that 450000 americans have died from the global pandemic here in the united states and so the senate has its job he'll do his so this is a president squarely focused on the future not the actions of a past president and to demonstrate that what joe biden will be doing is traveling to the pentagon today where he will be making his 1st visit as commander in chief when he comes to the job with unique set of experiences with compassion given the

fact that he knows what it's like to grieve as so many of those military spouses do when it comes to the fact that he's lost children he's lost a wife he'll be listening to the generals and he'll be doing. sort of the rounds as he continues to x. or size his his roles and duties as commander in chief so this is what the white house is focused on they say that they are not going to opine the president is not a pundit he is in fact the president and that's what he's going to be focused on doing and in fact they continue to advertise his upcoming schedule he'll be traveling to the u.s. state of wisconsin next week just as we see much of this trial winding down kimberly many things can really help but there are so the white house in washington let's bring in joseph you're a he's a professor of political science at texas a and m. university he joins us on skype from joseph you are welcome to the news hour mr trump apparently himself was glued to the t.v. all day yesterday america time east coast time florida time he's done at mar

a lago he's been there since he left the white house and even he is not impressed with his own defense team how have they managed to get it so wrong. i mean the publicly known facts of what the president did to undermine the election are well known unlike the 1st in pietschmann to where they were technical legal matters and norms of foreign policy making and talking to. foreign heads of state that needed to be explained in order to make the case for impeachment here the president's own words his own tweets the publicly observable actions are the strongest evidence against him and so it is it is or is in the united states senate have we can dealt to them and you know the president is a former president is not well known for his patients or understanding he wants to look good and have is representatives. make a clear case in his favor but the facts that are again are well known energy easily

observable don't don't lead in his favor if his team do not up their game starting today day 2 might then be in a situation with the democrats possibly get the numbers they need because they need 17 republicans to in effect vote that he was guilty he is guilty of these charges therefore he cannot stand for political office ever again. you know i think it's very unlikely that a sufficient number of republicans will join democrats to convict president trump i think the internal politics of the republican party and the politics of republican primary elections for the united states senate in the future and the politics of the upcoming contests for the next presidential nomination make it virtually impossible that enough republicans would would side with the democrats regarding lists of the quality of the evidence and regardless of the performance of the

president's representation in the senate trial i think this is a case where the result is by and large create determined by the partisanship of the folks voting there and of course that's much to the country's detriment to the exacting as jurors in this critical question facing the nation are not especially open to to consider the facts that are presented to them forgive me if i'm short handing this too quickly looks to me like this is a senate trial a senate courtroom what about the court of public opinion in the united states what does that do know to the republican party the republican movement and also to brand trump because if trump we understand is thinking about a political career in 2 years' time and donald trump is saying i might come back. yeah i think that the question of donald trump the attack on the capital and sort

of the larger question of the credibility of the republican party flirtation with the q and on conspiracy theory movement really puts the party in a bind on the one hand a very large number of its constituents subscribe to the false beliefs of the these conspiracy theories or the believe that the election was partly conducted and so there's a political impulse in a political need to cater to that constituency and maybe a critical one for winning a republican primary but on the other hand all democrats many independents and there are a growing minority of republicans reject that kind of unrealistic and. sort of false premises that those movements of bring to the table and so it's only very hard to cobble together as a politician a coalition that will let you win the republican nomination for the house or for the senate or for the presidency and then turn around and win the general election having previously align yourselves with those kind of distasteful and out of the

region of acceptability elements of the party and so i think in the long run the political calculation here is not that an overwhelming majority of americans will be convinced of donald trump's. guilt in this matter i think people's opinions are relatively saddled but that there will be a kind of you know reconcilable political dilemma for the republican party as it tries to hang on to that kind of trumpets edge of the party and be competitive in the center to win general elections ok joseph a really interesting conversation thank you so much joseph you know that with text and you know in doha. times are international with the full cost his real mccully. there are 2 big anomalies in east asia the 1st of this i have to season rain that came from vietnam is going through taiwan 3 times the average in what should be a dry charm the year and then the warmth in the north of china and to some degree

in the korean peninsula $5.00 to $7.00 degrees above average both by day and by night that includes hobbling the ice city which is a plus one that doesn't change too quickly the rain dissipates it back to normal in central and southern china but the focus of beijing hangs on for a while sunday about that about normal without any significant obvious change in wind direction a weather tug something's happening for the science and the rainy season is coming to an end slowly not so much in malaysia a few showers today in the philippines for the concentration in the liza is in java it does extend a little bit further north you could well be sharing kuala lumpur for example and we've gone dry in the himalayas a few showers of snow obviously moving east through time but we left behind quite skies and the persistence of fog in northern india north indian plane in particular so you get lower coltan there is a fine example of this in the morning that it's worst hazardous by the afternoon where the sunshine might just break through above the fog it's still pretty young

healthy. still to come here on al-jazeera breck's attention is brewing in northern ireland as some communities fear separation from the rest of the u.k. . you feel middle distance runner leading the pack behind a sense a new world record and from. a song. a father. a mutual love of the arts. the stage is set to immortalize fading memories. in a magical race against time. witness our time. on a jersey. when the news breaks the next few days outpost all security forces have been

deployed heavy in hot water like this one when people need to be hand demands have to be fulfilled by the government and then if all the farmers leave the other 2 but if other farmers state other state houses iraq has teams on the ground this is the insurrection that president trump is accused of killing to bring blue documentaries and lightnings. welcome back you're watching news our live from doha your top stories this hour protesters have returned to the streets of me and mom a day after rallies were violently broken up by the security forces there demonstrating against last week's military coup myanmar's military rulers have

imposed a curfew in the 2 biggest cities and band big gatherings. rescuers in india are racing against time to reach dozens of workers trapped in a tunnel area flooded out for at least a collapsed washing away damaged roads and houses 32 people have died and around 190 and missing. u.k. prime minister boris johnson has defended new coronavirus restrictions as measured and proportionate new hotel quarantine measures would require people travelling to the u.k. from red list countries to have to quarantine in a hotel to 10 days. rival factions hamas and fatah have strengthened their commitment to prepare to hold the 1st elections for palestinians in 15 years of talks in cairo they agreed to respect the timetable and the results of parliamentary and presidential votes in may and july palestinian governance has been divided between fatah in the occupied west bank and hamas in gaza palestinian police will be soley responsible for guarding polling stations for the 1st time in

years egypt has indefinitely opened its rougher border crossing with the gaza strip the crossing is the only passage to the outside world for gaza that's not controlled by israel the move came on the 2nd day of talks between palestinian factions in cairo it him has more now from ramallah in the occupied west bank. they released the statement after they concluded that meeting in cairo and which they said that they were going forward with holding elections that with by a presidential decree the 1st elections would be held. to be held or at the council elections and both the fatah and hamas have agreed and the palestinian factions involved have agreed on some of the obstacles that would kind of stopping elections for 15 years such as holding courts that will be dealing with with

elections complaints from judges from the occupied west bank and the gaza strip and indeed having the palestinian police oversee the polling station and while many palestinians have been relieved to hear the news of elections and the factions agreeing they still many still say that anything could happen between now and summer linking. to the opening of the crossing they believe that maybe it's a gesture from the egyptians it's the 1st time for it to be open since $24.00 thousands of already been registering their names with the interior ministry in gaza and they hope that they can make their way into egypt it's their only lifeline to the outside world but more than 3300 people will be allowed in at the time and many are still concerned that while they're happy that the crossing is open is that they're concerned that they're not going to be treated greatly specifically due to

some security concerns by the egyptian what usually takes a 5 hour. trip. hours could potentially take 2 days. facing a political crisis after the president's term expires before new elections could be organized opposition leaders want him to step down but he says he's staying until a vote can be arranged reports. president mohammad up to life for modules for your atomic spied on monday but he's still in office new elections was supposed to have taken place in somalia before they having failed to organize and he's now in dispute with the regional leaders of all when and how there will be held it's created a political crisis and raised tension in the capital mogadishu that's lonely recovering from 3 decades of conflict raw mahasen somewhat of a cruel thing and cosmetics shop in the city she says business is but killing to

get her a magic costume is no longer come to buy goods and only call our most customers they ask whether they should be thinking of buying clothes or save their money in case the current political crisis takes a turn for the worse and she has this advice for somalia's political didas. we urge them to come to an agreement for the sake of the nation that they feel to give us jobs another to have establish their own businesses we don't want their lack of compromise to affect our lives the country had told him that life to hold parliamentary elections in december 2021 talks between the federal government and regional states on how to proceed with them collapsed on february 5th the opposition says it won't recognize for a modulus president given his comments and on we edging to abide by the construction in a normal in order not to lose his. being a former president which is conditioned by peaceful transformation of power and we

hope that he listened to the to the face of legal experts on political history called his and abide by the constitution which limited system for 4 years which ended yesterday february. the un has called for dialogue among somalis this the u.s. embassy in mogadishu also issued a statement this week saying the political deadlock is a setback in the fight against the armed group al-shabaab supporters of president mohamed up alive for ma don't insist he is legally in office because the federal parliament last september and those demotion which declared a president should only leave office once a new one has been elected and sworn in but up motion did not give any time frame which means it's unclear how long can stay in office without holding elections. hiero. sudan's new cabinet is being sworn in in the in the capital khartoum the

prime minister abdullah announced a reshuffle on monday to push through reforms to the country can access international aid he has been grappling with a worsening economic crisis and nationwide protests against fuel and bread short to choose morgan as a correspondent joining us live here on the news from a reef hi there welcome back to the news how does this new cabinet change the politics of the country. well this new cabinet which is made up of $26.00 ministries and like the previous cabinet which had only 20 is said to include or does indeed include members from various political parties and from the armed groups that signed a peace agreement with the transitional government in the last year so this government is seen as a more representative government government a broader government but the challenge is also bigger which is why the prime minister describes the coming stage of sudan's transition as challenging as a new stage needing new faces and new policies unlike the previous cabinet where he

said people were based on their experience a technocrat government this government is largely built on political politicians and we see that in the nomination or rather the member of cabinet for the foreign ministry's position which is the daughter of the former head of the party the biggest opposition party. so she will be the foreign minister of the country of course there are a lot of challenges facing the country the biggest being the economy there has been several protests in various parts of the country including here in the body and in the western states of daraa for self that are for what north are for and is are for today where students and people have been complaining about the tough economic conditions which will be the biggest challenge this transitional government will be facing the people need clearly bread they need food they need fuel what's the government going to do to address those very real issues.

one thing the prime minister said is that the fact that sudan has been lifted of the u.s. list of states on certain terrorism will open up ways and improve the country's economy and he said that they will be they will be attracting foreign investors that will improve the countries that economic conditions but students and people alike are saying that the economy is getting worse and not better and that the policies should be improved so that's one thing that we see with this new cabinet it seems like the prime minister is relying on the fact that having a political government a government that has been pushed together by the coalition of the ruling coalition as the forces of freedom and change will make them agree on how to basically put down economic policies that will help improve the country's economic conditions thank you very much morgan they're reporting live from. senior diplomats from the u.k. and the european union will meet on thursday to discuss the latest frictions in the process goods moving from britain to northern ireland a customs declaration to be made but that has angered many people join

a whole from belfast. on the 29th of january the european commission made a fateful mistake in a dispute with the u.k. over vaccines it briefly triggered article 16 of the northern ireland protocol collapsing negotiated arrangements for post trade and prompting fears of a hard border on the island of ireland unionists were outraged their anger focused as much on e.u. duplicity as it is aimed at the government in westminster for agreeing a new economic division that many here consider an existential threat one of the most intractable conundrums of bricks it especially the hardest of economic brakes chosen by boris johnson's government is that there has to be a border somewhere it can't be a land border because of the threat to peace on this island so it has to be a border dividing great britain and northern ireland down the irish sea and that's

a real problem for unionists who see themselves as india visibly british. nowhere in the united kingdom is the concept of britishness felt more keenly than here in northern ireland and nowhere is loyalty to the british crown and state more vividly expressed than in the historic military and religious symbolism that lines belfast's shankill road to may grandfather fought in the same way more immigrants were far far fought in a 1st world war all from call from an anchor present that has me feeling that i am a foreigner and me on contract no not even allowed to order plant seeds or plants of a to man from the land because it. so an e.u. directives tell me is were not allowed plants are not an argue taste so i am what i was and my opinion of what is a fact standing on the u.k. side threats to the safety of port workers in forcing the terms of the protocol may have been overblown say the police but the message to politicians in london and

brussels is clear ignore the strength of unionist feeling at your peril one day a short period of time and possibly 5 years it will be a referendum on a united ireland and the way things are looking at them all the opinion polls in and northern and this shows that that default goals are reunification now if you're you know that's that's you know that's armageddon and the last judgment ruled that while the ongoing struggle between divided communities in northern ireland he's joined now by a struggle for unionist relevance unloved by westminster and faced with the possible breakup of the united kingdom there are no easy options join a whole al-jazeera belfast. china has blocked the social media clubhouse for a growing number of people joined on sense of discussions on political and human rights issues the american audio app allows invited users to interact in chat rooms

it has become increasingly popular in china as it provides a platform to discuss sensitive topics ready debated online include the persecution of the weakest taiwan's independence and the pro-democracy protests in hong kong china defended his decision to block the app and described it as interference by external forces the. first while china's internet is open the chinese government manages the internet in accordance with law and regulations 2nd china's position on the relevant issues has always been consistent and clear cut china has an even determination to defend its national sovereignty security and development interests as well as to oppose interference by external forces russ feingold is an asia political risk analysts he says it's no surprise chinese users are again once again a step ahead of internet regulations. clubhouse became popular very rapidly to the point where i had chinese friends sending me text messages asking me for help to

get on to clubhouse within the past few weeks it was very sudden but naaman on but just as quickly the chinese internet regulators obviously they've caught up with it and now made efforts to block it look chinese internet users routinely jump over the firewall to access internet websites and social media around the world it's not unusual all that they would have tried something new that became popular they heard about it the technology and the capabilities and frankly the intelligence of internet users is always going to be several steps ahead of regulators whether in the west or in china. when it gets onto the agenda of the chinese authorities and it always comes after it was popular with net is in this is just another example of that but it also shows once again that the tolerance level for this kind of conversation within china is very limited and it can only take place within the

confines that authorities in china are comfortable what many european cities own experiencing heavy snow this week the deep freeze in the netherlands has seen the son of ice skating on canal with some with the subzero temperatures expected to continue crazes creating new challenges feel florence's joining the pandemic step boston not reports from amsterdam. i skating fever and then that will and sort of die hards at least because the ice is still an unreliable snow and ice are a great relief after months of lockdown and evening curfew and these extreme winters have become so rare that this is all the dutch are talking about as you can see my bench was quite wet so the 1st trail not that good but afterwards it was the perfect so you went straight from that straight through the ice yes. and this is a unique opportunity for the dutch to turned a few hills in this flat country into

a playground in the country has become awfully out of practice this is one of the main public transport hubs and i'm so that but trams and trains and metros and busses are barely functioning or not functioning at all over test locations vaccination locations are closed garbage is barely collected so much of public life must come to a standstill and only because of 30 centimeters of snow. and when freezing temperatures continue for the rest of the week many here are getting their ice skates ready to shop and i have hundreds of ice skates that he to be shopping by the end of the week you mean so you go really are getting crazy just know our shirts and already starting to get nervous but the authorities are trying to time the enthusiasts and to cope with restrictions by looking at the heights of ice skate fever in the novel and this will be a huge challenge. still to come here on the news hour for you. it's willing to pay

its owner during. the bad boy of australian tennis battles the umpire what he calls dark phoenix in front of 20000 homes and.

more. time for sports thank you very much at the tail almost 20000 fans have turned out to watch day 3 of the us train open in melbourne home favorite nick kerry didn't disappoint them. it's morning it's raining the dirty. 25 year old

said the crowd helped him overcome what he called a dark thoughts to save 2 match points in the 4th set he's now through to the 3rd round and what is his 1st major tournament in a year after choosing to stay at home and not play because of corner virus stands out. well number one about djokovic was made to work harder for his 2nd round when he lost the 2nd set to american a frances. in a tie break and only just held on to win the 3rd set tie break defending champion relieved to make it through to the next round. he was holding his serve a well i was not really using my breakpoint chances very well. at times i was too passive just wasn't the feeling was i'm feeling the ball today is as well as i normally do but again credit to him for forcing me to do to feel uncomfortable.

and there was a big scare for women 2nd seed simona halep but she trailed australian to a 1000000 or 52 in the deciding a 3rd set before winning a 5 consecutive games to advance to the 3rd round it was much easier for 7 time champion serena williams to advance to the straight sets win williams that needed just over an hour to defeat a serbian and nina so janowicz 636 love. she pushed me very hard and i think you know she played really well honestly throughout the whole match similar to really fight for all the games so it's always good to see young players like her come out and do so well because it's exciting for women's tennis if the o.p.'s good as a guy has set a new indoor 1500 meter world record she blew away the field at finishing more than 6 seconds clear of the pack in a time of 3 minutes 53 point and not my seconds that is more than 2 seconds faster

than the previous record. pole vault a world record holder maunder des plantes is needed just 2 jobs for victory he decided against making more attempts after clearing 5.86 metres as he felt pain in his hamstring while he was warming up. even by a buy in munich stand as the team is enjoying a period of a rare success the german side a face mexican club to guests in the club world cup final inside of a unique trophy sweep and the riches and reports from here in doha. this club world cup is no mid season inconvenience for by new nick the german champions have the chance to become only the 2nd team after barcelona in 2009 to win all 6 domestic and international titles on offer in a single season buying fakes mexican side seagrass in this title decider. meet

winning the final at the club world cup would be the cherry on top maybe at 1st you don't think that much of it but when you know only one team has won 6 titles in a season and you have the chance to be the 2nd team and we have the chance to make football history. a limited number of fans have been able to attend the matches in cats are crowds of being kept at 30 percent of stadium capacity due to covert 19 restrictions as the country continues its preparations the next year's world cup it's a really good sign for everybody that we can see 30 percent of the supporters in the stadium this is a sign of hope for everybody so we can see that all really nice to being a sports event and see the supporters there supporting the teams in few days at most. in december cats our host the fee for our a cup $22.00 team tournament lasting close to 3 weeks the hope is even more fans will be able to attend allowing organizers to stress test all aspects of their

world cup infrastructure big stadiums fan zones all the new metro system ahead of the main event next year we do hope that the world goes back to normal and that people can enjoy their lives as they previously did of course we want to make sure that also sports is enjoyed the way we're all used to it being enjoyed however it is important for us to be able to test all our protocols as we've been doing. you know you need to be prepared we hope that we don't need to implement any of these protocols that we're implementing right now and for now the few dozen seacrest fans that are in cats are will at least have the chance to witness their team show. that winning one of clubfoot triggers titles on the richardson al-jazeera doha. manchester united left it late in extra time to progress to the quarter finals of the f.a. cup united had their chances to secure the win in normal time but west ham's goalkeeper kept the game goalless then in the 7th minute of extra time united

kookie broke from a near their goal was scored with tom in a score in securing the one nil win. in the n.b.a. the detroit pistons took advantage of kevin durant's absence beating the brooklyn nets 112111 the 2 time champion is sidelined because of the league's corner of ours health and safety protocols jeremy grant scored 32 points to help the pistons seal the when and hand the nets the 3rd straight defeat it. 6 was the lucky number for the defending stanley cup champions the tampa bay lightning they are now on a 6 game winning streak off to beating the nashville predators on tuesday nashville school of the opening goal of the game the tampa came back scoring you guessed it 6 on answered calls. and that's it for me santa thanks very much when we come back on the other side of the break we'll take a live update from washington d.c. to donald trump's impeachment stay with us but we'll see you soon.

looking to reassure people in indonesia the government lifestream president joko widodo getting the country's 1st chinese scene of back over 1000 vaccine the 1st nations outside of china to grant emergency use thailand malaysia singapore and the philippines have all placed orders this despite a wide range of data on its efficacy from the early trials of the vaccine some southeast asia countries have not yet approved the jab this has led to some questions about the vaccine stemming from the lack of transparency and data the chinese regulators do not want to give up the control if the submit their. give up a certain amount of control thailand is looking to start vaccinating high priority people with the scene back jab some here feel is though the lack of transparency around the vaccine is not limited to trial data you have a major type of c.p. group taking a stake in a company that produces side of back like some of its neighbors thailand is

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