rich beyond groups now control the villages that we can see on the other side of the river people live on this side so they can hear gunfire when they're fighting from around the world months after that i will cain eruption they say their harvest are now back to normal. this is al jazeera. hello and welcome i'm peter w. watching the news our live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. never before seen footage from former president trump's impeachment trial tense video showing just how close protesters came to taking over the seat of america's democracy. still no sign of

a back down and 1000000 mile from either side a 6 consecutive day of protests against the military takeover. more than 80 countries stand accused of using the pandemic as an excuse to crack down on freedom of speech. and pressure grows on the head of the tokyo olympics to stand down over his sexist comments. to the latest round of the sports as rafael nadal reaches round 3 of the australian open the defending women's champion is out. ok let's get going we are just a few hours away now from hearing more of the evidence against the former u.s. president donald trump as his impeachment trial enters day 3 so far we've seen impeachment managers deliver never seen before footage of the capitol hill attack on january the 6th the c.c.t.v.

videos showing top politicians like mike pence the vice president fleeing as the rioters swarmed the building. the senate heard that the house speaker nancy pelosi was rescued before the rioters broke into her office impeachment manager stacey plaskett argued if they had found her quotes they would have killed her other previously unseen video showing capitol hill police officer eugene goodman running toward senator mitt romney here scott similar way as the mob approaches here you can see senate majority leader chuck schumer being led away by his security detail but then moments later they turned back around and run to avoid encountering the protesters mr trump is charged with inciting the attack on capitol hill one more day of evidence against him will be heard on thursday before his legal team presents its defense alan fischer wraps up

yesterday's proceedings. the day was punctuated by video much of it which had never been seen before much of it security footage from actually inside the capitol building itself senators could only want to join in horror as they saw or hope police officers were overwhelmed podi sent frantic radio messages arguing for help how the student against the violent tide that swept towards them threatening to challenge the result of the presidential election at the very heart of american democracy. evidence will show that he clearly incited the january 6th insurrection if you will show that donald trump surrendered his role as commander in chief and became the insider in chief that mob was summoned assembled and incited by the former president of the united states

donald trump and he did that. because he wanted to stop the transfer of power so that he could retain power the the this was never about pursuing legitimate claims he was saying anything he could to trigger and anger his base so that they would fight like hell to overturn a legitimate election just the. do this violent attack was not planned in secret the insurgents believed that they were doing the duty of their president the. the democrat impeachment managers also highlighted donald trump's criticism of vice president mike pence how he didn't have the courage to do is job and then they

showed the video of how close the crowd came to the vice president and the awful consequences that mia followed this next security video shows that evacuation you can see vice president pence and his family quickly moved down the stairs the vice president turns around as the riders reached the top of the stairs they were within 100 feet of where the vice president was sheltering with his family and they were just a feet away from one of the doors to this chamber where many of you remained at that time. vice president pant was threatened with death by the president's supporters because he rejected president trump's demand that he overturn the election the 1st critical hour and a half of this bloody attack donald trump tweeted his rally speech

and did nothing else. was. senators. you've seen all the evidence so far and this is clear on january 6th president trump left everyone in this capitol for dead the democrats may have moved some republican senators with the audio and the video that they played today but it's still unlikely they'll get enough votes to convict donald trump but what they have done is lay the narrative of donald trump's final days in office on the assault on the capital on january the 6th 2021 in just a moment we'll be talking to our white house correspondent kimberly health. at the white house and washington 1st let's go to capitol hill and our correspondents following the ins and outs every day for us hi peter castro heidi hi there welcome back to the news so what happens today. peter this is day 2

for the impeachment managers to continue presenting their case against the former president on this article of inciting an insurrection yesterday we saw them presenting that emotionally charged and strong video shown from security footage that had never been shown before and we saw the moments of just how close the mob got to lawmakers within 58 steps we saw the the senator's having to double back running to get out of the way to escape that mob we saw the police officers literally fighting for their lives for hours as they were confronted by the mob and as democratic managers say the president then trump did nothing to call to call the rioters off now if you asked democratic senators today they'll say that that was a convincing case but of course it's not their minds that need to be convinced and you're getting a very different take from republicans who work in the chamber there are reports

that some watch these proceedings unfold with their feet up doodling that while they were riveted when that security footage was shown when they may have seen themselves running away from the mob on the screens well ultimately it is the legal question that still has to be proven to them that question being whether or not trump meant to incite the mob because of course the question has never been whether this mob was incited by trump that's almost obvious if you see the evidence but getting into the state of the mind of the former president that is the biggest legal chair challenge that the impeachment managers are facing and in fact peter there's actually one person listening to all of this in the senate chamber who may have the best idea what the former president was thinking as this riot unfolded and that was republican senator tommy tucker bill who was the only person on the capitol that day who spoke directly with the president on his cell phone while he

was sheltering in place in the middle of this right. the fact that senator topper of 0 has apparently not been cooperating with impeaching managers hasn't shared what the contents of that private conversation were other than the reports that it was trump pushing him to continue to delay the certification of the vote in joe biden's favor but the fact that he hasn't come along on this is an indication of where those other republicans may stand and just as alan was saying it would take 70 republican senators to convict trump at this point that still looks unlikely heidi thanks very much we'll talk to you later i'm sure how did your chemistry there on capitol hill white house correspondent as if it can really help it so kimberly we discussed this this time yesterday on the news yes it's not 100 percent of the biden working day but it must be pretty compelling for everyone in the white house and compelling for everyone across america. there's no question that people are keeping one eye on it as they go about their day and that

includes this white house as i was in the press office i notice that every television screen is fixated on the trial and what is happening on capitol hill but at the same time there has been a conscious effort and strategy by this white house to have the president be above the fray if you will what his aides are saying is that they are certainly keeping in touch with the democratic leaders on capitol hill chuck schumer in the senate now palosi the house speaker but at the same time the white house press secretary saying that joe biden has a very busy schedule and he's focused on working for the american people what that will include today will mean a visit to the national institutes of health and to speak with the staff there working in the viral laboratory as they continue to combat the pandemic so this is a white house that's very squarely focused on the future but at the same time there is a growing sense from aides here at the white house that in fact if donald trump does

break his silence there may be a need for joe biden the president to weigh in on this trial particularly if there's a need to tamper down and inflame tensions does that mean the boy will perhaps break one of his semi roque's old golden rule and take to twitter. well there certainly is already a twitter account for the president but it has been very policy focused and very targeted having said that the the mold has been broken if you will with respect to official policy coming on twitter with the previous president donald trump so it would not be surprising if that were to happen but at the same time expected to be properly punctuated not so are radek and perhaps also carefully formulated in terms of strategy i suspect we won't be hearing the word say ever again not from the current incumbent of the white house anyway can be good to talk to as a thank you so much let's talk now to robert's gucci he is

a professor at lancaster university and at the sort of the trump presidency journalism and democracy welcome to the news this is in effect a trial some of the evidence yesterday was properly scary if you have the disability sing song voice of a man shouting nancy nancy going down a marble coro door and the nancy in question is an 80 year old woman that's not a very nice situation. i mean the ironic thing to tolle this is donald trump has used the media his entire career as a as a businessman and then as a politician in that same medium is coming back to him. he's seeing on the screen and we're seeing on the screen with this medium mogul maybe has has contributed to and republicans while they may not step on the line and not hold this impeachment from from the house and banned then donald trump from

from seeking a federal office and in the future if they don't do that certainly does that then brings a question are they sitting there sitting sitting back and saying this is who we are as a republican party and this looks ok to us because what does that mean for the next 4 years under this president. and could that put a red carpet out for donald trump to come through again in 2024 does that mean that as far as american voters are concerned this isn't just donald trump quotes on trial it's the republican party in terms of who they are what they're for who they represent and also those 12 republican senators who only said yes in effect said yes a 2nd impeachment is a good idea when the consequences the alleged consequences of donald trump's actions came to the capitol building came to their own front door they didn't say boo to a goose the 1st time around the 1st impeachment and then they said yes we should actually go for a 2nd preachment because what he has allegedly done has come and it's got

completely in our faces. well that's right i mean though is this the democrats just bring out trouble is that how the party on the right is going to frame this is this what voters are going to see when they elect 4 members of congress in the midterm elections is this what they're preparing to do for 2024 is to say this is just the democrats and this is just a political a political party ploy to get donald trump and smear his legacy if that's if that's what's happening then that's very concerning at the local and regional and state levels as well across the united states and we have governors we have legislatures across across the country who are relying on these voters interpret in what's going on in washington d.c. right now a particular way there are elections are going to be very well be depending on how people perceive what's happening on capitol hill right now does that mean this is

actually strengthening parts of the right wing and parts of the republican party by meeting as democrats for versus republican thing or is are people actually sitting back being my god why did this person do and what does it mean for a future presidency can they also do something like this left in their tenor before they leave the white house and go unscathed what does it say about the legacy of the trump presidency that the biden administration is clearly having an internal conversation with itself behind closed doors in the white house along the lines of do we go on twitter with proper punctuation and good upstanding spelling if slash when donald trump takes to twits dot dot dot he can't stop himself it's going to happen sooner or later a question mark. well yeah i mean we see you know facebook is in the process of reevaluating its ban of donald trump and. there's

a lot to play out in and whether donald trump takes to parlor a right wing social media platform or that we don't know what's going to happen in that case i think that you know one thing that donald trump did. as part of his likeness he was speaking to an average american out maybe an average american on the right side of the aisle but he did that he came to them face to face even if it was over social media right it was theoretically and i think it for e am nobody else was doing this in the white house he was tweeting to them joe biden has to decide and i that sort of populist president from from the left how am i going to present myself to the american people as being one of them certainly i can have phone calls with delegates across the world i can visit different parts and build our international reputation and relationships and what am i doing for the average person face to face to them that's something donald trump brought into the white house through social media whether we like it or not whether it was helpful or not whether it was dangerous or not he did that and that's part of his

legacy what is joe biden going to do to that who is going to speak for him is he even speaking for himself those are questions people are asking and they should be asking specially in his 1st 100 days when he sets the tone for how he communicates with americans well the good in lancaster and the u.k. good to talk to all the thank you very much thanks. plenty more still to come here on the news for you including. i'm elizabeth warren and the indian himalayans with a rescue operation to find 35 men trapped in a tunnel some some days lots has expanded. also ahead grief and rage in lebanon as a prominent hezbollah critic murdered last week is laid to rest. and the defending women's champion is knocked out of the australian open the best of action coming up with zahra in sport. government workers to go back to work after 6 days of mass demonstrations lame also

asked people to avoid gatherings because of khirbet 19 however protesters are demanding the release of the elected leaders and that the john to step down scott hartnell reports. maintaining their momentum thousands of protesters again pour on to the streets across myanmar in their civil disobedience campaign against last monday's coup there are many different groups representing many walks of life now that a new truth on you tube of this campaign is a little strange and co-chair but we think that the main goal is to get attention from all the countries so all the boys joining this campaign are risking their lives and putting aside. joining trade unions and groups of workers already taking part in the movement some police officers and kaya state broke ranks and joined the protesters calling themselves the police of the people. someone who was in the 1988 year in march student uprising that ended in

a violent military crackdown says this movement has much broader support. i think that the military will not be able to use the. must and that might include extent because this is the time is different the world is different now you can see that the there was media came out with a strong statement especially the new zealand prime minister. i didn't came out with this very strong statement that they cut their relationship with the military . just tense way a top aide to aung sang suu kyi and several others with links to the ousted government were taken from their homes overnight joining the more than $140.00 leaders taken in the 1st hours of the coup including suchi. officials from the electoral commission are also reported to have been taken. to says that the end of the landslide victory in november was fraudulent citing that as the main reason for

its takeover. the u.s. announced that it will impose sanctions against the military rulers a move that more nations are expected to follow a slowdown on foreign investment is also anticipated. like previous periods of military dictatorship that could lead to the country tightening its already close economic relationship with china myanmar is one of the poorest countries in southeast asia and sanctions and a potential return to pariah status to most of the outside world could undo the economic progress since the election in 2015 i. but for now the message and the goal for the protesters are clear get as many people as possible out on the streets while at the same time drawing in more international attention and involvement scott toddler al-jazeera ok let's bring in our correspondents lawrence louis following those developments from kuala lumpur florence what more do the 2 leaders have to say in this written statement.

while he's urged government workers to return to work to stop the strike and he's also blaming the work strike on he said quote unscrupulous persons harassment from unscrupulous persons is urging people to avoid large assemblies because of course on a virus concerns and he it also appears to be a different tactic by the military a softly softly approach because also included in that statement is a line about how the military will review the laws on benefits to civil servants now it appears to be seen whether or not these words will have any impact on the protests which don't seem to be losing any momentum and just a quick check on social media people are already pouring scorn on minimum length comments with many people saying we're scared of coronavirus but it's worse to live under military dictatorship and other people are saying the only reason we're out on the streets is because this coup took place and yet more others are saying that people who are taking part in the strikes are the people who are truly loyal to the country now the fact that this is lang's 1st statement on the protests and also his

2nd statement in 4 days suggests that the military is perhaps feeling the pressure from what's happening in the country these protests are in their 6th successive day and they don't seem to be losing any momentum and the civil disobedience strike is also growing larger as each day with rail workers being the latest group to join in the workers' strike. there reporting live from kuala lumpur. u.k. research is the corona virus mutation 1st found in kent could become the world's dominant strain the variant is already in more than 50 countries it was 1st detected last september in the southeast of england since then it spread at an alarming rate across the u.k. forcing the government to introduce new lockdown measures just last month were

a challenge as life for us in london rory these comments about this new variant they've come from somebody in the u.k. who is known as being at the cutting edge of the science with this what's what's the potential long term impact here. yes sharon picard knows as much as anybody i think about what makes the coronavirus take because she is the head of the u.k.'s genetic surveillance program she's also the head of a u.k. consortium of labs and health bodies which of the moment is analyzing $30000.00 positive tests per day she's a genetic sequence or essentially someone who really prizes into the nuts and bolts of this virus and what she says is that this particular strain that was 1st detected in the u.k. back in september and is now as you said in 50 countries around the world but it's already swept through the u.k. now it's sweeping the rest of the world and it is likely that it will become the

dominant strain of the virus outside of the u.k. as well and that's because it's more transmissible is not necessarily more deadly but it is more transmissible it passes from one person to another more effectively what she says is that we are going to see these these new variants popping up there have been several already that's the way viruses work and what this means is that she expects her work as a sequence of looking at corona virus to carry on for another 10 plus years now that perhaps sounds more worrying that in that it actually is she's not saying that this is going to be an acute public health crisis for that long but she's saying that because viruses mutate because you get these different strains some of the strains may be less dangerous some of them may be more you have to keep a tab on things you have to keep looking looking at them you have to keep your vaccines effective by making sure that tweaks to the new strains of the virus that

are in circulation and although coronaviruses public health crisis may have faded from view in that time it's still a long term project that scientists need to be on top of rory thanks very much. more than 80 countries have used coded 19 as an excuse to crack down on free speech and assembly last according to a review by human rights watch of government responses to the pandemic if governments have attacked detained prosecuted and even killed critics close media outlets and created new laws criminalizing speech in the name of the coronavirus pandemic human rights watch says china cuba egypt india russia turkey venezuela and vietnam were the worst offenders with hundreds of thousands of their citizens being affected in bangladesh china and egypt said people have been imprisoned for months for criticizing their government's response to covert 19 let's bring in jerry

simpson in geneva he's the associate crisis and conflict director of human rights watch tourism's and welcome to the news so instead of moscow up what should be the health message it's shut up which is a message of silencing people. that's exactly right and our recruit today highlights the wide range of tactics governments all around the world are used to force people to shut up and use very helpfully summarize the main points that we've made in this report and there are a couple of trends i'd like to highlight firstly there is a significant number of countries that are silencing medical workers who are speaking out about shortcomings in government responses such as a lack of personal protective equipment for medics these people are being arrested and prosecuted in some countries their relatives have being intimidated and it's having a widespread chilling effect on them and other critics who want to take on government failures as they respond to the pandemic given the back story of some of the countries that you've identified here gerri i mean targeting or going off to

certain groups i guess is predictable and therefore understandable if you follow how any given country is run so if you go after political opponents if you go off to journalists if you go after the voice of all honesty and reason yes ok but going after health care workers just because they said we don't have the right to get we will get this killer virus as well that does that eliminate in secure certain governments feel when it comes to people analyzing their response to the virus pandemic i think that's exactly yes i think that's exactly right and i think that the one of the main concerns we have as we scan the world and see these abuses is governments aren't just silencing criticism of their response but they're using new laws broadly worded fake news laws among other measures to silence political dissent that has nothing to do with coded so people that are out on the streets in

hong kong and in other places. calling for dim democracy and an end to repression are being silenced you have by governments using the excuse that they are breaking social distancing measures or other public health measures and yet at the same time those same or 3rd. is or allowing other pro-government demonstrations public assemblies or other social events to go ahead so clear arbitrary targeting of political critics using code as an excuse jerry here's the thing if you're talking about new laws vague laws is it a little bit like you know we did see after events of $911.00 we saw around the world a whole raft of new anti terror legislation being brought in by governments governments around the world then said oh don't worry about it we will get rid of this legislation when the time is right for dozens and dozens of countries as you and i both know that legislation is still there do you see this legislation still being on the statute books in 51015 years time because it's a way that if governments feel in secure doing their jobs they can use that as

a leverage point to silence the critics. it's a very fair comparison the aftermath of $911.00 in the way that you describe is comparable to the way in which governments are using this pandemic to create a whole new raft of laws all around the world that can be misused we are concerned that when the pandemic is over they will stay on the books and they'll be used to silence critics and it's one of the reasons that our report focuses on recommendations to 2 key organizations in the u.n. the human rights council and the world health organization to better monitor and report on free speech and assembly abuses by governments amongst many other abuses that those governments are also committing in the name of coded in order to make sure that exactly that kind of overreach doesn't take place during the pandemic and even more importantly doesn't continue when it's over briefly gerri please give us a sense if you can how many people are still behind bars for having criticized

their government when it came to the covert the government's covert response point number one point number 2 how can any government justifiably now say yes ok you're behind bars are you going to stay there even though we're now more than a year into the pandemic. well we haven't done a we can't claim to have a clear tally of all of those detained but we have documented on going to attention in 3 countries which i think you mentioned at the beginning they include china and in china a citizen journalist was sentenced a few months ago to 4 years in prison she said very clearly that before she was convicted on the office is threatened her filming outside a hospital they told the police told them that they would beat her to death and she asks one simple question i'm just documenting the truth why i contacted tell the truth and that is a question that a lot of people including those in detention are asking themselves why can't they

tell the truth to help the public but to protect itself against the pandemic in terms of the length of detention one of the findings is that governments are putting in place laws that in some cases are threatening people with 20 years in prison like in zimbabwe if they publish mused the government deems to threaten public health so we have serious concerns about many countries putting in place excessive punishment where people should simply be reprimanded or just find that shouldn't be locking them up thank you very much terry simms and that with human rights watch talking to us from geneva good to talk to you john thank you time here whether his efforts. hi that the weather looks slushy fine and dry across much of the middle east that there would be some places of high clouds as in hazy sunshine but not too much in the way of wet weather there are some showers just pushing across turkey will slide their way further east was friday through saturday running

into georgia simply with some snow there over the high ground but across much of the region it does look settled in sunny winds 40 somewhat lighter around the gulf highs here in doha a pleasant $24.00 celsius and that sunshine stretches down across the whole of africa heavier showers those towards southern parts of uganda there be some showers into southern areas of kenya some wet weather of course through the rift valley pushing across into where milan areas of towns in there for a time of the west the weather is going to be through the mozambique channel well this little chain of storms just rolling through here out of that eastern side of tanzania pushing down across those warm waters and digging in to wards madagascar western parts of madagascar say some shot showers longer spells of right and pushing that wet weather back into southern areas of mozambique the eastern cape also seeing some very heavy rain over the next couple of days that rain sinking right across the region with the potential for widespread flooding by the end of the weekend. still to come for you here on the news of course in the crossfire we

need villages living along the border between sudan and ethiopia where a dispute over land and resources has taken many lawyers. and the sport with sorrow we build up to the final of b. club will come between by and munich into chris. jumped into the stream there is a lot going on in this and julian global community when i talk about the misinformation i think we all want to feed 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 and would love to hear the new and e.t.p. part of today's discussion this stream on out is there. what should americans be thinking and doing right now it should be about ideas they don't care about their

work is all they care about is making money china is not going to be left out of the calling for the bloated defense budget to be high the bottom line on us politics and policies and their effect on the world. be the hero the world needs. washing. you're watching the al-jazeera news 34 minutes past the hour these are your top stories the impeachment trial of donald trump is set to resume for day 3 on

wednesday never seen before security camera footage was shown it revealed close rioters got to top politicians such as mike pence and chuck schumer as they stormed the capitol building on january the 6th people in myanmar have been protesting for a 6th consecutive day as the army detained another key aide to the civilian leader aung sun suu kyi jointers leader is urging government workers to return to work. u.k. researchers say the coronavirus mutation 1st funding can't could become the world's dominant strain the variant is already active in more than 50 countries it was 1st detected last september in the southeast of england. the families of $35.00 work one thought to be trapped in a tunnel in the indian states of what sort of car say they are losing hope the tunnel and much of the surrounding valley was flooded and part of a cliche a collapsed into a river on sunday rescuers have searched through the night but there's no sign of any survivors food parcels are being sent to remote villages cut off by floods at

least 35 people have died around $200.00 are missing and there's about purana reports from the top of. the rescue operation to find the 35 men who were in the tunnel when a flooded is facing get another challenge in the middle of the night drilling teams began drilling into an area that they hadn't looked into before the silt filtration tunnel that's 12 to 30 meters below the entrance behind does the police say that they were only able to draw a line halfway down before they machine stopped working meanwhile all of the agencies involved in the rescue efforts that the police the army navy disaster response the indo tibetan border police they're continuing with their operation to remove. large amounts of sludge from inside the tunnel this still hoping to get to about 180 meters from the entrance where they believe there are pockets of air and that is a possibility of where they could find the missing man meanwhile relatives of the 35 men are here and they are growing increasingly frustrated. after he hardly

started i have never heard from the administration or come with the hope that the administration would at least be able to give me my son's body but i've lost that hope to i've been here for 4 days my family's calling and asking me where our son is now you tell me what i tell them meanwhile away from here 6 men who are missing since the flood hit on sunday have been found they were installing cell phone towers when the flood hit and they took shelter on the help pad and it took them 3 days to walk to the nearest village after bridges was swept away in the flood and so engineers are building zip lines that are going to carry cable cars across the river to connect people in around 13 villages who have been cut off since many bridges were swept away. mourners have gathered for the funeral of a prominent lebanese activist who was shot in his car. was an outspoken critic of

hezbollah as murder last week provoked a public outcry across lebanon the u.s. ambassador to lebanon and she attended the ceremony and paid tribute to say. you were. breaking in. the party are. unpredictable and unexpected like him let us not get very. close her legs just. accountability through this with her. right this carry on his legacy. including my continuing our partnership we keep organizations out here and we are out of these partnerships xina how to joins us live now from the southern suburbs of beirut zain what's the

latest on the investigation. well we're not any closer to knowing who was responsible for this political crime the 1st in many years in lebanon we are in his family residence where he was laid to rest earlier earlier today it's been a week it was since he was here and he was shot multiple times but close range but for people here they're not expecting answers they don't believe that the lebanese to disagree or the security agencies. will uncover the truth because the judiciary has been accused of being politicized judges prosecutors who have been appointed or linked to political parties so for people here are transparent investigation is on a likely this country has had a history of assassinations a lack of accountability. but at the end of the day for people here especially his family they believe they know who the killers are they think that hezbollah the

iranian backed the armed group in lebanon was responsible because of where this crime took place in an area of the group security influence now the group has denied any role in the killing but for people here they're wondering why the group has not helped them try to uncover who was responsible this is a deeply divided country the murder of an activist raising a lot of fears that there could be further incidents like this because there is a deep political crisis in lebanon so you know thanks very much. japanese media reporting that took us a limb peek chief to step down. it's been facing growing calls to resign making sexist remarks about women the former japanese prime minister spot outrage after saying women board members talk too much comments that women talk too much in meetings made by the chief mr moody of japan's poor record on gender equality

japan ranks $120.00. 1 out of 153 countries in gender equality as laid down by the world economic forum the last place among major advanced economies in japan's lower house only 10 percent of lawmakers are women ranking it 167th to $190.00 countries for female representation on average japanese women earn 27 percent less than their male counterparts the 3rd worst gap in the o.e.c.d. women also make up only 5 percent of japanese executives all this despite young japanese women being higher educated than the equivalent young men let's talk now to chelsea shita she's a historian and associate professor in the faculty of economics at the yama university she joins us on skype from tokyo chelsea sheeter welcome to the news hour here on al-jazeera how can this individual in this day and age have got that kind of thing so wrong i mean it's not good enough just to say oh well he's

a man of a certain type he's a man of a certain type. well i think that that more himself came up with in a very insulated. situation even his comments reflected that in his apologies about his comments subsequent to his initial comments he said that these were things that he had heard from other people who had been on boards and committees with women so. i think he's within a very insulated kind of old boys club in japan and i'm not really sure that he as an individual with necessarily aware intil this comment was taken up with such strong emotions in the public sphere that what he was saying could even necessarily be offensive ok we are anticipating the fact that he will be stepping down very soon does the fact it's taken several days actually send

the wrong signals because we know in that situation where he's not actually sorry for what he said he's kind of sorry that he got caught perhaps because people have been saying to him you really shouldn't be saying this kind of thing. yes i mean i think there's maureen is is responding to public pressure certainly not necessarily pressure within his own party and i do want to be clear that actually many conservatives in japan actually in a sense feel quite sorry for mori also as as an elderly man but i think would also sends a rather strange message is that his new replacement is a covert saburo who is also 84 and came up with in a very similar educational and political background. to modi so. it's a it's a little bit baffling why they would go with. somebody with such a similar profile. at this moment ok what does it also see chelsea about

japan because you know when we think about japan particularly if you're an outsider as i am i've only been to japan a couple of times you think about technology you think about cars that people want to buy you think about punctuality you think about things that are well built using technology and it does what it says on the tin and yet when it comes to the country's attitude towards women your view and ideas will get in a time machine and go back 506070 years because the percentage representation of women who are clearly very well educated is so low. oh well as a syrian i would actually i would actually say rather than japan being stuck in the past the fifty's and sixty's in japan in many ways could be very progressive and maybe perhaps ahead of the time regarding gender equality in generalisations but i will say that. what what seems to have worked during the years of japan

incorporated the higher economic growth here the bubble years of the seventy's and eighty's. whatever seems to have worked it seems like those who are still in power are still trying to employ these old methods which include these old older ideas of gender relations. and so we'll see if finally if there are some quarters that actually have some teeth if there are a few more sticks instead of just suggestions and carrots there's a lot of rhetoric surrounding implementing these sayings these kinds of suggestions and we'll see if that can actually the be implemented ok chelsea we have to leave it there good to talk to and get your thoughts on this developing story chelsea cheeta the in tokyo thank you. sudanese villages along the border with ethiopia a quarter in a standoff between the 2 countries over an area known as a shard up both countries claim the land and tensions of lead to increased military

presence is in the area civilians reported attacks by ethiopians morgan now reports from the reef on the sudan ethiopia border. this is the village of the state of the body of the people here are poor and the only water comes from the river the women still gather firewood for cooking. as a liberal hymns wife was out looking for firewood when she was killed in an attack by ethiopian militia men last month he's now raising their 4 some salone the youngest nearly 2 years old is already starting to show signs of malnutrition. the whole lot of them were there she went out with 12 women to gather wood ethiopians came from across the river attacked they killed 6 including a young baby since she died our youngest has not proper food she keeps calling for her and they allies in a fresh account an area of about 3000 square kilometers contested by sudan and neighboring ethiopia sudan's government uses to colonial agreement signed by if he

appears then emperor to claim the region but ethnic on her farmers from ethiopia say the area belongs to them and they have been farming it for nearly 5 decades some of those who live near the sudan if you appear border have reported having family members kidnapped by if you have been militia men and held for ransom the attacks will happen at the start of the farming season in april and may now with the army pushing back if they have been farmers from especially there are fears this season could be the most violence here. the push back up with european farmers in the area started in december last year since 2002 talk to demarcate have stalled between the 2 sides so down the boundaries drawn according to the 19th deal if you are on the other hand wants to renegotiate for a new deal after failed round of talks in december if you stated it want to continue without the down withdrawing from a fresh something sudan's army has refused to do is sort of. the most important

thing was securing the land and that's happened we have taken back our land in the land of our ancestors and we want to move from here but it's not only the people will be area who will be buried here people from all over sudan can be buried here . the army says it's taken back more than half of the farmland once occupied by ethiopians ibrahim says his farm was one of them. or land that he was still can't farm on it because ethiopian sometimes come and attack us they killed the villages we need security but you can see the condition when he development to live to farm there are poor roads poor machinery life here is hard residents say they hope the move by the army to take control of official is followed by development projects that will make their lives easier morgan al jazeera and about if they need apartments in new zealand has dropped toys from its dress code after mary politician complained of a colonial noose maori party co-leader are weary your t.t.

was ejected from parliament on tuesday for refusing to wear a necktie replacing it with a traditional green stone pendant he complained neckties were a breach of indigenous rights his protest was successful and he was allowed back into the chamber without a tie on weapons. still to come here on the. banks holds a part with half a $1000000.00 that's coming up in sport with sorrow when we come back so.

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a few stories of us you've been hearing earlier there are reports in japan that the head of take care and pick your sherry morey will resign over a sexist comment he made last week on a tear 3 year old former prime minister has said women talk so much he since apologize and retract his comments boss has said he wouldn't resign over it now it seems though there's been a u. turn because he's expected to officially set down on friday for the prize has more from take. you're sure i'm already has apologized for these comments but the controversy shows no signs of going away if anything pressure for him to quit has been mounting with more war makers and even some of the commercial sponsors of the games now joining those calls in addition there has been a groundswell of public opinion against him with more than 140000 people now signing an online petition for the tokyo olympic committee to take action and to punish him in addition there have been reports that hundreds of volunteers who are

needed to stage the games have quit have said that they will no longer take part because of his comments this is just the latest headache for these ill fated games which we have been postponed since last summer they are due to start in july of this year but of course with the uptick in covert 19 cases it is just as hard to get into japan at the moment as it is ever been with no sign of an actual vaccination campaign starting before next week at the earliest despite all this the japanese government is still insisting these games will go ahead but this latest controversy just adds to their own popularity in japan with opinion polls showing that if they do not go ahead that if they are actually scrapped many people in japan would not be that bothered at all the defending women's champions the fair ken has been knocked out of the astray and open in a 2nd round the 22 year old american was beaten in straight sets by saying yes

kayak can never be holding back tears she admitted the pressure of defending the trophy was too much and that she'd been struggling with nerves having just finished 14 days of quarantine before the 20 meant i'm not there 100 percent physically mentally my game everything just feels like really are fantasy it's not good but i mean i just and i couldn't really i guess handle the pressure. and the women's number one ashley barty is into round 2 but had to work hard for it she was up against fellow australian diarrhoea cover low over and despite winning the 1st set $61.00 she had to save 2 set points before taking the 2nd set on a tie break. and in men's rafael nadal has made it into round 3 of the minstrels but his match had to be stopped at one point because a drunken found wouldn't stop swearing at him she was eventually removed and that's all wrapped up in straight sets win over american michael. stephan are stupid so

bust had a really tough match against australia as the last sucky. as the greek eventually coming through in 5 sets reached the 3rd round the match lasted 4 hours and $32.00 . and check this out because there was a fiery match between 2 italian players 5 your 4 nini and salvatore cardozo it was a funny need that won it after 5 sets but as you can see the battle continued after the match and they eventually had to be separated by the officials it's been reported caruso was upset at funny calling him lucky after several points during the match. and by me i have suffered some setbacks ahead of the club world cup final the striker thomas miller's tested positive for cocaine 19 and will miss the game against its aggressor later on thursday this comes after buying defender jerome boateng withdrew from the squad to fly home to germany after the death of his

former girlfriend by owner still the favorite so heading into this game if they win they will become only the 2nd side in history to win the 6 trophies available to them side 12 months and de mint meanwhile why you know i consider byron to be the best team in the world right now if they win this still match the barcelona team that i was part of under pep guardiola but you gross have nothing to lose in the final so i'm sure we'll have a great show. now standing in their way all central american champions to aggress no mexican club has ever reached the club world cup final and if they do pull off an upset they will become the 1st one european team to win the trophy since brazil's corinth ians and 2012 will make people grammar book. which used to victories like us but that doesn't mean they aren't principles they lose like us they will like we winners we have to play at our best and i think we are up to the challenge now by munitions in great form and so our manchester city of sets

a new winning record in football in english football they be swanzy 3 want to reach the quarter finals of the f.a. cup that is their 15th successive victory in all competitions which breaks the record set by preston way back in 809192 season and also in the late 1980 s. moving on to skiing champions are finally under way in italy after days of weather delays there were perfect conditions on scene on thursday and swiss racer lara good for her army took advantage to claim her 1st major competition gold medal in the women's 3 of the g. defending champion make shifrin finish 3rd last fall and considering she was competing in a 1st speed race in more than a year. now bron james and the l.a. lakers have won again in the n.b.a. le bron scored $25.00 points against oklahoma city thunder including a game tying 3 pointer to force the game into overtime the lakers went to win by a single point which makes it 6 in a row for the defending n.b.a.

champions. the name jordan will always be associated with the n.b.a. and this was the andre jordan no relation of michael impressed him with a couple of alley oop dunks for the brooklyn nets the indiana pacers by 10 points ending a 3 game losing streak. tom brady has thrown thousands of pressure passes in his n.f.l. career but what about this one during the super bowl celebration the quarterback threw the vince lombardi trophy to his teammates rob we're now ski on another yacht frankly they didn't drop it which is no surprise. and let's finish with a golf shot worth hoth a $1000000.00 this was actor alfonso ribeiro as known as cults and banks from the friend fred crenshaw the prince of bel-air thresholding they're winning parts of the charts again that's how will beach in california as you can see he celebrated his iconic brands in the fresh prince. so you sports now more later summer thanks

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