but only tell me the. simplicity to the headlines join me as i take on the law dismantle the misconceptions and debate the contradiction. marc lamont hill and it's time to get out from right here on out here. this is al jazeera. hello i'm adrian for the get this is that it was live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes the 3rd day of donald trump's impeachment trial democrats will wrap up their case after they showed violence disturbing video footage of the riots on capitol hill. the leader urges public servants to return to work many were among thousands protesting against the coup

a mass arrests that followed. a sea country stand accused of using the pandemic as an excuse to crack down on freedom of speech and. the rescue operation to find 35 men trapped in a tunnel since sunday's floods has expanded. around . the defending champion is unknown. so we're just 2 hours away now from hearing more of the evidence against former u.s. president donald trump as his impeachment trial enters its 3rd day house impeachment managers are accusing trump of fanning the flames and planting the seeds of the deadly capitol hill insurrection last month so far they presented never before seen footage of the capitol hill attack on january the 6th the c.c.t.v.

videos show politicians like mike tech mike pence fleeing rises swarmed the building. the. sun has also heard that house speaker nancy pelosi was rescued before the riots as broke into her office simply stacie plaskett argued that if they'd found her they would have killed her although previously unseen video showed capitol hill police officer eugene goodman running towards senator mitt romney is called him away as the mob approaches and here you can see senate majority leader chuck schumer being led away by his security detail but then moments later the tone back on run to avoid encountering the protests 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. in

a few moments will be speaking with our white house correspondent kelly how couple 1st let's join heidegger castro who's live for us on capitol hill heidi any sign of the impeachment managers are making their case against former president trump. while their presentation yesterday adrian was praised by members of both parties as being strong effective emotional powerful however there is also an understanding among the impeaching managers that of course although they're trying to get trump convicted that in practicality and reality because of the politics the best they may get is an uncomfortable acquittal because of course as we know at 17 senate republicans would be needed to convict trump who remains still the most popular person in the republican party and even despite the praise of the number 2 republican in the senate john thune calling yesterday's presentation. effective and

strong still an immense hurdle for these impeachment managers to overcome the politics and of course there's also the legal argument because as compelling as the video evidence has been that we've seen the challenge for impeach managers is to prove not only that this mob was incited by trump but that it was trump's intention to incite the mob and it is that state of mind that is always the tricky thing for prosecutors or these managers in this case to prove but it is interesting that there are at least 2 people among the jurors who are the senators of course who may have a unique insight to what trump was thinking at the very moment of these riots and these are 2 separate republicans who took a phone call from trump during the riot as the senators were huddled waiting to be evacuated hiding from the mob we know one of them senator mike lee has told the

press immediately after the riot that he took this call from trump which was intended for actually his haul leave tommy tucker bill and that on the phone trying to pressure to tupper a bill to delay the certification of the electoral college vote for joe biden well that was an episode that was brought up. by the impeachment managers yesterday but this is interesting almost immediately after we had senator lee object to that part of the presentation now taking back that press report saying that it was false then you have tommy tubber of the other republican senator here who has said very little about what trump shared with him on that phone call but yesterday under pressure from reporters he said that he did tell trump that mike pence the vice president was being evacuated at that moment how did trump respond on the phone call we don't know what he said but we know that 20 minutes later he tweeted an attack against the vice president saying that he lacked courage for not stopping the electoral

vote count but the fact that these 2 republican senators adrian haven't shared more about exactly what the president said in that phone call is telling that they are still very much in trump's corner as laws as well as other republican senators even as these impeach managers try to chip away at their loyalty by presenting the evidence or at how even a thanks steve how did your castro live for us there on capitol hill let's bring in our white house correspondent kelly how kids can be the president taking very much a hands off approach to proceedings. that's absolutely right this white house is focused on the future and the president has a busy schedule according to his white house press secretary shinseki that includes at this hour meeting with members of congress at least some top senators to try and get his infrastructure problems to rebuild america's crumbling infrastructure going this is something that many presidents have worked on but have not been too

successful with this is all part of the covert relief plan that this president is putting forward to try and get americans back to work so that is what is being discussed at this hour along with the transportation secretary pete british who we should note is meeting virtually given the fact that a member of his security detail tested positive for covert $1000.00 now the other big agenda item for joe biden will be later in the coming hours he'll be headed to the national institutes of health to meet with some of the scientists who work there of course sites a big part of his strategy for getting americans back to work in controlling the pandemic so he'll be making some remarks there as well now you're right he has been working very hard not to talk about what's happening on capitol hill but we can tell you that there has been some murmurings and among his aides and also in media reports that there is this calculation that should donald trump break his silence particularly near the end of this trial if he doesn't some way inflame tensions as

the former president who still is very popular with many mehr americans republicans but also millions who voted for him than joe biden may have to weigh in ultimately on the issue of the impeachment trial given the fact that there is this tendency of donald trump to inflame tensions something that biden is hoping to avoid knowing he may have to speak to come those tensions should they are wrapped once again. complete i'm sorry can we how could that live at the white house in washington many thanks indeed every. jeffrey services director of political studies at this kind of sense and he joins us now live via skype from melbourne florida good to have you with us after yesterday's graphic video evidence and arguments what more can the impeachment managers do today to further their case. thank you it's good to be here it's hard to know what more the democratic managers of the pietschmann case could do to persuade their republican colleagues yesterday's video testimony was

graphic and emotionally very unsettling you actually saw some senators such as jim langford really overcome by seeing how close the writers came to actually causing real murder and mayhem in the capitol building but i am afraid that it's in the political interest of far too many republican senators to claim that it's a constitutional issue or the democrats didn't prove trumps intent i think the reality is that they're afraid of trump's voters and they will seize upon any excuse not to put it to convict trump it so that begs the question what's the point of all of this when it's a foregone conclusion that the trump will be acquitted. it is a foregone conclusion but the reality is that a lot of these republican arguments against convicting trump are quite threadbare impeachment proceedings are not a criminal trial so it doesn't necessarily matter that trump didn't meet the legal definition of intent at the point is he acted irresponsibly as

a leader and there should be accountability and there should also be constraints put in place to prevent future presidents from trying to pull off this kind of half hearted coup and i think this will follow the republican senators who vote not to convict if he is acquitted we're almost certain that he will be could. be pursued somehow legally through. the the regular legal system. i think it's possible but unlikely because as i said it's intent which is so hard to prove in cases of this sort where insurrection is involved however you know the possibility is that having brought out this evidence which is really quite compelling of trump's responsibility for the disastrous events of january 6th and the real desecration of not just the capital but our democracy the idea of trump standing for reelection in 2024 will become more remote he will lose his hold on many of the 74000000 who voted for him and he will become less of

a toxic force in american political life good to talk to so many thanks for being with us jeffrey a service there and melbourne florida. we have lost military leader has spoken about mass protests against the coup for the 1st time men is urging government employees to return to work as tens of thousands rallied for a 6th consecutive day in syria scott hi-lo 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 that i need to done with 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 to say. joining trade unions and groups of workers already taking part in the movement some police officers and caius state broke

ranks and joined the protesters calling themselves the police of the people. someone who was in the 1988 myanmar 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 their might in food extent because this is the time is different the world is different now and you can see that the there was leaders 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 hodler al-jazeera let's forget i was here as far as louis has

following developments for us from kuala lumpur florence tell us more about what men online had to say in his written statement. so men online said i mean you urged people to return to work and he seemed to blame the work stoppage on harassment by unscrupulous people you know search people to avoid gatherings because of corona virus and he seemed to be using a carrot and stick approach together in his statement because he also talked about possibly reviewing laws for civil service to the benefit for the benefit of employees but let's say in time he talked about possibly taking effective actions if the strikes continue without elaborating what these effective actions could mean now and you know the question is whether people will listen to what he said and it seems quite unlikely at this stage we have

a quick look at social media has been calling scorn on his statements people saying . you know it's it's worse to live under a military dictatorship than it is to live under pandemic other people were saying the only reason they're out on the streets protesting is because of the coup and other people suggesting that the ones who are taking part in the strikes are the ones who are loyal to the country but the fact that this is minimal lang's 2nd statement in as many as 4 days seems to suggest that perhaps the military is feeling the pressure from what's happening in the country the strikes are been going on for a very many days now and this is the 6th successive day of masked street demonstrations and they don't seem to be losing any momentum into force but it takes a little 0 storage through their lives. here with the news hour from al-jazeera still to come on the program scientists warn that the u.k.

variant of the corona virus could become the world's dominant strain we'll look at what that means for immunization efforts. in grief and outrage in lebanon as a prominent has ball a critic of last week is laid to rest. and that offending women is champion is knocked out of the history of oprah the best of the action coming up later in school. us president joe biden has had his 1st conversation with china's president xi jinping since taking office the white house said that he expressed concern about a number of issues including its words coercive an unfair economic practices president she stressed the need for the 2 nations to avoid confrontation and have mutual respect well u.s. china relations hit rock bottom last year the 2 largest economies became embroiled in an increasingly bitter trade battle during trump's final weeks in office

washington imposed sanctions over beijing's crackdown on hong kong alleged abuse this week a minority it also lifted restrictions on taiwan which china sees as a breakaway province and most recently the u.s. ordered sanctions against me on mars military leaders some analysts say that that could further extend china's economic influence in the region joining us now from beijing is and the more senior research fellow at the center for china and globalization a think tank and he president biden affirmed washington's tough line on human rights and regional expansionism according to the white house readout of the conversation how will that have gone down in beijing. quite think there is a very pragmatic approach that the us has. to a ship united states adrian. i think china recognizes that politically the

rhetoric really cannot change that much under a biden ministration but i think everyone also recognizes that president biden is 1st of all it real it's and he's also a pragmatist as well and as a result you know we look at his record as vice president in the congress as well he's also a person that is more about working together versus that and i think we look at this together i think with this rules is that by ministration recognizes the u.s. has or more to lose you know conflict with china than it does to gays and i think this is a stark contrast to the trumpet ministration where they had really a kind of reckless disregard for the damage its policies did not just to the target of those policies but to the united states itself so of all the answers to what extent is u.s.

support for taiwan the most contentious and the relationship between the 2. well it clearly is a red line for china and i think china's been very consistent with the decades. since the relationships when we established in the accident ministration that the taiwan question 'd is a red line for china on which it has will not compromise at all so i think that really hasn't changed and this is i think instance we are the u.s. really is treading to dangerous territory but going back to say you know the president by doing this a realist i think he also recognizes all right so that never going to be the best of friends but let's face it relations can't get any worse than they were as you said under the trumpet ministrations how do you see things developing of president

biden's. well i think there is room for at least cautious optimism 'd because when we look at president biden's priorities quite a change economic recovery. 19 that racial justice on most if not all of these working with china provides better outcomes for the united states than. conflict with china and we look at what have been the results of the tree war and the trumpet ministrations hostility towards china china's economy has shown remarkable was. the trade deficit were mr quest to get it from china's perspective but the u.s. has actually gone up. china really striving despite. the hostility from the u.s. . i think that a realist and

a pragmatic president biden will seize this. hour we'll see that working with china is far more in the u.s. interests 'd and fighting against. i think it's total i think stick to being with us at a mark that. the families of 35 were planned for to be trapped in a tunnel in the indian state of without a car and say that they're losing hope the tunnel or much of the surrounding valley was flooded when part of a collapsed into the river on sunday rescues have searched through the night there's no sign of survivors food parcels are being sent to remote villages that have been cut off by the flooding at least 35 people have died around $200.00 a missing al-jazeera elizabeth reports now from 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 the for the silt

filtration tunnel that's 12 to 30 meters below the entrance behind us the police say that they were. half way down before the 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 men meanwhile relatives of the 35 men are here and they are growing increasingly frustrated by your heart he said i have no hope from the administration i come with the hope that the administration would at least be able to give me my son's body but i've lost all 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 health pad and it took them 3 days to war. 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. for the funeral of a prominent lebanese activist who was shot dead in his car. was an outspoken critic of hizbollah last week provoked a public outcry across lebanon reports. a grieving mother makes an appeal as she buries her son look man slim. the publisher

an activist was assassinated a week ago and the 1st high profile killing in lebanon in years and this is in a message to her son's killers selma march shock said weapons are of no use if you want to build a nation a. look man's family says he was killed because of his criticism of hezbollah the main armed group he accused of monopolizing power and working for the interests of iran those who see slim's killing as an attempt to silence voices of dissent are defiant i feel that his killing was. targeting him alone but it was targeting who were listening and diversity in the shia community. hezbollah has denied any role in the murder and accused its opponents of exploiting it for political gain but for some there are facts that can't be ignored it happened in an area we know clearly who controls it and lebanon we have

a history of us summations and many have evaded accountability the evidences which covered up some of the investigators with assassinated many activists who oppose hezbollah believe they too are at risk but the. 0 fear is their message to those who accuse them of working for western countries he gave generation to look at the history of people who invest. in ideology. i find. annoying and he's annoying. and that's why he was killed i think look man had a wide network of relations western diplomats attended the memorial ceremony they added their voices to calls for a transparent investigation in a country where there is little trust in a politicized judiciary. look man lived in the southern suburbs of beirut this is his father's home and it's been here since before the neighborhood became

a hezbollah stronghold his family says the man refused to leave this by years of threats and intimidation public criticism of hezbollah has recently been growing the group still enjoys the backing of a majority of muslims an estimated one 3rd of lebanon's population but supporters of look month say he showed there was another voice said of beirut sudanese sort of just along the border with ethiopia of course in the standoff between the 2 countries over an area known as. both countries claim the land and tension has led to increased military presence in the area civilians reported attacks by ethiopians as a series have a bogan reports now from got our beef near the sudan ethiopia border. this is the village of the state of. the people here are poor the only water comes from the river the women still gather firewood for cooking. as

a liberal hims 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 you have been farmers from a recession there are fears this season could be the most violent here. the push back up with european farmers in the area started in december last year since 2002 talks to demarcate have stalled between the 2 sides so than once 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 saddam withdrawing from a fresh something sudan's army has refused to do is sort of go out on our guard out of the most important thing was securing the land and that's happened we've taken back our land in the land of our ancestors and we want to move from here it's not only the people of the 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. i

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 you 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. the weather next year on the news out then demands for justice the family of a prominent saudi activist speak out after her release from prison. concerns in the philippines over a growing black market for covert 19 vaccines but in sports sorry buildup to the final of the club world cup between munich and took us.

how i once again the weather's slushy fine and dry across much of the middle east but some pieces of high cloud just turned in the sunshine increasingly hazy but no sign of any significant rainfall at least away from circular we have got some was a weather creeping across central parts of turkey edging further east was towards armenia azerbaijan georgia just around the caucasus to catch a shower what's a bit south of that it is looking settled and sunny 24 celsius here in doha some pleasant sunshine winds easing as we go on through saturday and into sunday that dry weather comes all the way down across the gulf of aden will see some fine and dry weather into somalia into ethiopia but some heavier showers just around the rift valley joining up with some really wet weather that we have in the mozambique channel see how the the winds coming in from a northerly a warm northerly direction over the warm waters of the mozambique channels either side of that could see some heavy rainfall into western parts of madagascar heavy

rainfall too into eastern parts of mozambique and that wessel weather will last pushing all the way down into the eastern side of south africa some big and heavy downpours coming in here with the possibility of localized flooding this weekend. it's america's worst kept secret cracked open the time of a pandemic exposed in the time of trump through the turmoil of 2020 the big picture traces a century of racial injustice to reveal how philanthropy politics and economics preserve structural inequality keeping white a supreme and black in its place the race for america part 2 on a jazzier. examining the impact of today's headlines it didn't matter you're rich

or poor what your religion is you are battling this and damning you're staring at it in the face and you're dealing with it setting the agenda for tomorrow's discussions was it a coup unfolding on capitol hill international filmmakers and world class journalists bring programs to inform and inspire you each and any one of us and the responsibility to change our 1st place for the better than al-jazeera. oh. hello again adrian for the get in here in doha with a new cell from al jazeera the headlines this hour the impeachment trial of donald trump is set to resume for its 3rd day on wednesday never before seen security

camera footage was shown revealing how close wives' has gotten to syria politicians like mike pence and chuck schumer as they stormed the capitol building. manaus military leader has spoken about mass protest against the coup for the 1st time in online is urging government employees to return to work as tens of thousands of people rallied for 6th consecutive day and rescuers continue to search for 35 workmen trapped in a tunnel in the indian state of with her to come and rescue work has continued through the night but there's been no sign of survivors. now to the pandemic where concern over the impact of new mutations on immunization programs is growing african union disease experts say that the astra zeneca vaccine should only be used in countries where the south africa variant isn't present amid fears of its effectiveness that despite a world health organization recommendation data around the jobs efficacy in older

people has prompted some countries to restrict its use to those under the age of 65 but the company's profits surged to $3200000000.00 in spite of concerns meanwhile the coronavirus mutation 1st found in england could become the world's dominant strain according to use the u.k. research has spread to at least 50 countries let's go live now to london zoo is rory chalons is with that report on the to the u.k. straight of the verses written by a leading geneticists tell us more about what it says. yeah it's come from a woman called sharon peacock who knows more than perhaps anybody else really about the virus and what makes it take she is the head of the u.k. is genetic surveillance unit she's also the leader of a consortium of different trees in health bodies in the u.k.

which the moments is allies in 30000 positive samples a day so she really has an understanding of virus gentleman and how they applied to public health what she says is that this particular strain of the virus that as you say we saw 1st class of the south of england back in september she says it swept the u.k. and in all probability is going to go on to sweep the rest of the world too and that's because viruses displace features in the feature that this particular strain has is its transmissibility is just simply more effective apos ing from one person to the next and that's given it an edge over the older version of cove in 19 what she says is the she expects that the you know the the analysis instead various different strains of coded 19 mapping the genome successor is going to go on for at

least she expects 10 plus years now that on the surface sounds quite worrying which is not saying though necessarily is that this is going to be an acute public health crisis for that amount of time. to stay on top of the virus and to make sure that it doesn't risk a few days years down the line with a new variant that behaves in a different way you have to keep analyzing it you have to keep tweaking vaccines to make sure that they are continuing to be effective and that according to. therapy coke is a long term project and something that might continue she expects it to continue long after the covered 19 as a as an epidemic as a pandemic has faded away our very many thanks indeed of zeros laurie chalons live in london let's bring in chris chris smith consultant for all of just edits of the naked scientists he's with us via skype from cambridge in the u.k.

chris good to have you with us again just when we thought we were turning the corner and that there was light at the end of the tunnel we have the emergence of these these new variants some of which may be more resistant to the vaccines that that we currently have should we have to be depressed. well i'm actually both reassured and worried and the reason for that slightly strange answer is that i'm reassured because we know about it and as the old saying goes better the devil you do know than one that you duds and i actually spoke to sharon peacock he were referencing there a couple weeks ago about this because we work together and and she is a pioneer in this particular area and when we were discussing this one of the things she said to me was look chris if you look and seek you will find and she's alluding to the fact that the reason that we know about these variants is because we've gone and looked for them and i asked is it likely that other countries around the world that are seeing big surges in cases of coronaviruses they may well have

variance in their virus populations in their countries that are driving those resurgence is but because they haven't got a sharon peacock in their country doing what she does we've called q.k. the us the consortium that are reading the genomes in this way they just don't know about them and she said i think that's highly likely and also because although we've got this u.k. variant in the u.k. and we've got the south africa variants in south africa we've got the brazilian variant in brazil they share many features in common and it seemed merging it's clear to us that the virus is basically evolving in areas where there's lots of virus turnover and settling on particular genetic changes in the virus that confer upon it and in heart stability to spread a mite people well and transmit the virus and so even if we don't export a virus or imported virus bear into a particular territory it can make it other than if the virus grows there fast

enough to roll the genetic dice often enough and make this happen and that's why the whole world has to get behind bearing down on this and getting the numbers down as low as possible as fast as possible so how do you do that. well there's a number of ways the very very costly way is that we lock down countries which everyone's absolutely sick and toddle but it really does work if you look at the translation here in the u.k. from what was high 60 thousands of cases per day down to 2 teams of cases per day $13000.00 or so now and in the matter of a month this really does help to break the chain of transmission so public health measures are absolutely crucial underpinned by a vaccination strategy that enables us to protect the most vulnerable because although there's been some question about whether or not back seems completely defend against the spread of these viruses what we agree on is that almost certainly they will defend against severe disease so if you have a vaccine it's very likely all of turned what would otherwise be

a lethal infection into a more mundane infection that's good news an underpinning all of that is sharing of data sharing of information doing genomic screening of the type that you were referring to with champagne corks initiative here in the u.k. and other measures like track and trace measures so that we can get a handle on the virus get a handle on where it is and once we've pushed it right down into really low levels with things like lock downs we make this a lockdown so loss of a lockdown and then keep it under control that's the i'm very hard to do that a very briefly if you can. this virus is likely to be with us for the long term is that right we're going to be dealing with this rather like we deal with the flu it's not going to be something that we eradicate like smallpox. this is almost certainly going to become endemic in other words circulate indefinitely if not just for a really long time we cannot eradicate this because this is not an exclusively

human infection smallpox the only host of smallpox was us humans this is an animal infection it's a so-called zoonosis it jumped into humans probably from bats or some other closely related species but because that reservoir still exists and may also now be established in other animals as well like cats some links and things like that it's very very difficult when you have an animal reservoir to eradicate anything so the best we can hope for is the long term control and suppression of the virus and what's called elimination from certain territories where it's kept it really low levels by the measures i mentioned you know i always learn so much when you come on chris many thanks indeed that once again chris christie it's a pleasure and came by. the philippines government says that it will receive the 1st doses of vaccines from a global vaccine alliance that is kovacs next month it's also secured at least $50000.00 doses from china but critics say that's not enough and there are growing concerns over illegal vaccine distribution on the black market john allen dogon

reports from the law. this blog entry in a popular chinese social media site talks about purchase of illegal covert 1000 vaccines in one discussion thread a social media user questions why he has not developed antibodies after buying one of them illegally raising doubts among others that some of the vaccines being sold are fake the website targets chinese nationals and authorities say it is proof that vaccines claiming to protect against school big 19 are being sold on the black market in manila the vaccines are hard to acquire here in the price steep investigators say each doze can cost as much as $200.00 china must explain i mean how in the world these illegal vaccines get into the philippines with the strength of their security and surveillance system it's impossible for them not to know or

do find out exactly how this happened. the chinese embassy in manila has warned its citizens about the risks of fake vaccines and recommends only those authorized by the philippine government but the store to say this comes as no surprise at least 6 illegal clinics like this one have been weighted over the past year investigators found illegal shipments of medicines for respiratory illnesses allegedly used as treatment for corona virus and that these reported vaccinations may be happening to areas exclusively catering to chinese patients it's thought to many have tried to import vaccines amid growing anger at the government's slow response and outrage grew further when reports came out that president rodrigo to 3rd his presidential guards were inoculated with smuggled chinese school with 1000 vaccines last year critics say the soldiers' actions have set a bad example and undermine the very purpose of the food and drug administration

the terror to defended his security personnel its actions to me jamaat their own research to be sure and i would like to call on congress when they move to be generous. refuse him for my soldiers to the best of my against their will compared to other asian nations the philippines has been slow to roll out its vaccination program and critics say that's led to a black market with many here giving up on the government to get them a job and soon. doug and al jazeera in manila. more than 80 countries have used curve at 19 as an excuse to crackdown on free speech and assembly but according to a human rights watch review of government responses to the pandemic it found that governments have attacked detained prosecutors and even killed critics closed media outlets and created new laws criminalizing speech in the name of the pandemic human

rights watch says that china cuba egypt india russia turkey venezuela and vietnam were the worst offenders with hundreds of thousands of citizens affected in bangladesh china and egypt said the people have been imprisoned for bones for criticizing the government's response to cope 19 gerri simpson is the associate crisis and conflict director of human rights watch and says that there's clear all the true targeting of political dissent using social distancing laws. 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 of 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 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 amongst 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 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 authority are allowing other pro-government demonstrations public assemblies or other social events to go ahead so clear arbitrary targeting of political critics using covert as an excuse the family of prominent saudi women's rights activist jane i'll have little say that they want real justice following her release from prison on wednesday how slow spent nearly 3 years in detention she still unable to leave saudi arabia at her

family says they'll fight a travel ban the jail had campaigned heavily against the ban on women driving in the country. jane is not free she's just been temporarily released condition even east and so what we want now is that really just there's a key so yesterday when when we were seeing her smiling and we left had tears yesterday so you could think. we we asked to you know when you were in the secret prison he would always tell us that we're fine can really trust you now saying that you're fine and she said what did you want me to do i had stitches think on a year and if they would complain about anything they were ready to to egypt you to me and you know it's just just hearing her from her says. yeah it's heartbreaking. just ahead here all the news out culp and banks holds up

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sport of his sorrow. well it's an exciting time not far from the studio for football fans about to watch the kabul cup final and a few hours european champions by munich are chasing this trophy in 12 months up

against the mexican side take risks so it's going to straight to andy riches and he's outside education city stadium and see by and big favorites but some setbacks ahead of this final. absolutely the complexities really of hosting an international tournament in the midst of a global pandemic really laid bare and in the buildup to this final in the last few minutes we've had confirmation from both thief and from behind meaning it's almost a mirror one of the linchpins of that buy and seem has tested positive for coverage 19 won't be able to play in this final against seagrass a reminder of the sort of protocols these players have had to go through that tested 72 hours before they left to come to die hard in those tests at sea whether by players linger at sky and having not seen as tested positive so they stayed behind in germany the players then tested again on the arrival in doha at the airports the whole squad then goes into a secure bubble which includes their hearts how the training venue these i'm on the

match day stadiums and the protocol then extend this to 6 days later the players are all retested regardless of the circumstances and it's that test of the model has returned as positive in the lights of thoughts all the players were tested again earlier today and those tests have come back negative so apart from being out know the players have tested positive having said that your own words and their sense of back he's pulled out of this final for personal reasons so perhaps some hope that seagrass that they're not going to quite get the full buy in on the pitch tonight as they go for this unique trophy sweep of winning 6 big titles in as little as 9 months so what chance do you think they have of course they are not that then. it was big surprise for me to get through the semifinal against. brazil or the 1st mexican team did the 1st team from their

confederation of north and central america series the club world cup final is interesting that a couple days ago there was a media call with 3 before legends as they called all of them from south america or from brazil to us as are and have a masher on our all here in the expectation that they'll be watching power play in the final so it cigarettes causing a big upsets to get through their goal keep in the build up to this tournament noel guzman saying as far as he was concerned this club not representing mexico not represents the neck and federation only the club itself something of a veiled reference to the fact that a lot of people connected to the grass don't seem to get the credit they deserve perhaps because they're based in not in the capital in mexico but after their performances both in mexico and their confederation over the last few years and now this tournament rising status is impossible to deny well thanks found the i'm sure going to be keeping us updated across but but also i have another question because how useful has this event been for the hastings cateye gets ready for the 2020

world cup. yeah it's coming around the corner now isn't it kickoff next november i think the big thing it is with fans isn't it with the pandemic and that's what we associate with world cups these travelling fans coming from from all over the world to see that sort of and we sort of the last club world cup here obviously that's not possible this time around the have been some fans here stating crusties caps that 30 percent and all to get whole time to go through checks before they can come in on match day and that's really the big test coming in the next few months there is a tournament coming up at the end of the year the fee for arab cup which will involve $22.00 countries and the hope then is that perhaps more founds can come in they can start to test out found zones again that they can test their capacity through airports and moving fans. around the city on the metro system everything is very uncertain of the moment organizers saying they're hoping that by the time we get sort of ember of next year stating crusties could be back to 100 percent some

event will take place in something approaching a post pandemic environments thanks a lot and they will have to see how that pans out to see the pandemic in the next few months moving on there are reports in japan that the head of the take it in picture sure murray will resign over a sexist comment he made last week the 83 year old former japanese prime minister had said women talk too much he since apologized then he retracted his comments but had said he wouldn't resign over it now it seems though there's been a u. turn because he's expected to officially step down on friday but mcbride has more from take. you're sure i'm ari 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 unpopularity 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 spending women's champions ken has been knocked out of the australian a pin in the 2nd round the 22 year old american was beaten in straight sets by saying is kaia kanepi 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 tournament. and rafael nadal has made it into round 3 of the men's draw but his match had to be stopped at one point because a drunken fan would stop swearing at him she was eventually removed and it all wrapped up straight sets win over american michael none. too much do you know the killer i don't know but. honestly it was a strange situation but. yeah funny at the same time and there was a fiery match between 2 italian plays 5 you're funny and salvatore closer it was

funny that one after 5 says those you can see the battle continued after the match and eventually had to be separated by the officials it's been reported caruso was funny calling him lucky after several points during the match. now the old skiing championship all finally underway and it's a day off to days of weather delays now though perfect conditions and thursday and swiss re solara good brahmi took advantage to claim a 1st major competition gold medal in the women's sure. defending champion champion mikael a shift from finish 3rd with us considering she was competing in a 1st speed race in more than a year. now let's finish the golf shot with hoff a $1000000.00 this was acts a. bar a as it is called some bites on the fresh prince of bel-air holding the winning pots in a charity game at pebble beach in california well that's it for me. any thanks dave. that's it for me but standby abed's are back with more of the day's

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to the only music you hear is. the most beautiful music in the world and so i will meet with news makers and talk about the stories that. just 0. is change because. believe in a place that is bigger than that. to make a political muscle you know your arms they run the senate they put themselves in knots to make the changes that we. should have taken. we have this culture to slosh and born to create new areas we have to change this culture one of the fortunate ones. that majority of these illegal ever so talk about just good hardworking people that want to live the american dream like our ancestors these are hindu refugees are

terrified that they may be forced to return to be a. man . never before seen footage from former president trump's impeachment trial tense video showing just how close protesters came to taking over the seats of america's democracy. hello again i'm adrian for the get this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up still no sign of climbed out of myanmar from either side a 6th consecutive day of protests against the.