bethen out and that's a privilege as a journalist. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian for the get this is the news are live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes shaping up to be one of me on mars biggest days of protests against the military coup hundreds of thousands of people the fire arrests of a crackdown to the model return to democracy. let us be clear the indiscriminate use of lethal or less than lethal weapons against peaceful protesters is unacceptable and the world is watching diplomats at the u.n. call for the release of myanmar elected leaders and warned against the use of force

will hear from the un special rapporteur. donald trump's lawyers set to begin his impeachment offense a day after house democrats wrapped up their case against the former president plus . i didn't i didn't. i didn't even i didn't have the tape talked about a white house correspondent kimberly halakhah has a surprise encounter with u.s. president joe biden of the 1st lady and it involved coffee. and i'm sorry hideouts in sports fans are shut out of restraint in open tennis after another lockdown is announced in melbourne but the action is set to continue on court as dominic team fights from 2 sets down to beat make kid against him. so we begin in myanmar where large crowds are gathering to protest against the military coup of this month in what's likely to be the biggest demonstration yet

hundreds of thousands of protocol. prosy supporters of gathered for the 7th consecutive day right across the country there are reports that live fire has been used at allegations of abuse being discussed at an emergency session of the u.n. human rights council now the leader has urged demonstrates us to work with the military if they want democracy he's releasing more than 23000 prisoners more now from out of syria school type law. as they tap their creativity for the marches for a 7th straight day the antic who protests across myanmar continue with their movement calling for the return of democracy and the release of their civilian leaders the now that we are asking international football fans on twitter facebook instagram to save our country and share what is happening. and not just premier league football fans in yangon. in the eastern city of police broke up a protest arresting several people for the last few nights security forces have

rounded up people who have taken part in the growing civil disobedience movement. and as myanmar's military celebrated union day in the capital which marks the anniversary of the nation's independence facebook announced it would reduce the distribution of all content in profiles run by the military the move is not a ban but to lower the number of people who see their content the social media giant saying the military has continued to spread misinformation. and there's growing concern about a cyber bill proposed by the junta. the military says its new laws are to protect the public and prevent crimes that could harm the country's stability. freedom of expression advocates see it as an unprecedented censorship. and this is sort of a page out of the authoritarian playbook you define something so broadly that it can mean anything and then you can charge anyone and 9 times out of 10 that's going to be a government critic or an activist so we're really worried that this law will be

pushed through and then it will be used to suppress criticism of the military or resistance to the military coup also marking the union day holiday the huta announced a prisoner amnesty more than 23000 prisoners were released the military leaders say the move was to establish a new democratic state with peace developments and disciplined protesters are concerned that part of the reason for the release is to make room in the prisons possibly for more political detainees scott hodler al-jazeera. rory chalons will be giving us the latest on that meeting of the u.n. human rights council but 1st let's speak to the serious who's in hong kong what's the latest you're hearing on these demonstrations have you. well from our sources on the ground we're hearing that the streets are largely quiet now and it's mainly because there is a curfew in place so most people have to remain indoors but nighttime is also the

time where we see large numbers of arrests happening and rights activists say many of these arrests are carried out by planes clothes policemen to enter houses without a warrant and take away people like not giving information of where they're going are telling their families or who they're with what when they will be back those being arrested include politicians activists journalists and even election commission officials now if you recall the main reason given for this coup by the military john was election fraud after entente cities and of the party won el landslide victory in the general election so it seems that across the board no one is really being spared of they're seen by the as being part of these protests in today's protests as you said there were large numbers particularly in yangon where we also saw a large number of professionals taking part in these protests and these include lawyers doctors and even police who are crossing the protests line so it seems

despite the fact that the military is trying to contain these protests and making more aggressive moves are the most aggressive moves we've seen since earlier this week the momentum is still quite strong and tell us more about these prisoner releases today. that's right so the military gent released $23000.00 prisoners or to that effect and they say it's because of goodwill now this is not an unusual move usually during a major public holidays you will see this kind of action the release of prisoners but this time activists are saying that the timing is crucial this comes during a just a week after the coup and also it is significant as to who is being released it's are unclear whether any of on san suu kyi. she herself or any of her allies are being released from detention and activists say that this is the reason that this

is being done is probably more sinister than what the military is trying to say it's more likely to empty out the prisons for more political prisoners to be brought in and it's also sending a stark message to the protesters that that could be that you their future and their actions on the streets would not be tolerated to be a problem reporting live from hong kong let's bring in gloria chalons then he's in brighton in the u.k. but he's been keeping an eye on that human rights council meeting with the laces story. well at the moment the meeting is in its kind of recess getting ready for a potential vote on this draft resolution that is being brought by the u.k. and the european union they were the 2 parties that essentially came together to say that this was necessary that the situation in myanmar was so bad that the u.n. human rights council needed to at least come up with

a kind of unified position unified statement we have been hearing throughout the day a succession of voices the various different ambassadors of the different countries giving their perspective on what's going on in me and mark and by and large it falls into 2 particular positions now there is the position of the majority of countries certainly mostly they are either western or western aligned and they have been deploring what's been going on in myanmar very very strongly saying that it's essentially a gross violation of human rights that the. military junta the the the the authorities military authorities him in march should relinquish control back to the civilian leadership that they should retreat to their barracks that they should release all the people that they have detained unjustly and that they should submit themselves so essentially having a kind of proper overhaul of the military so that the military is brought under

civilian control that's a majority view but then we do get the view from countries like china and russia and they are much less condemning and they basically say that what's going on m e m r is me a mars only internal affairs and that essentially the u.n. a.c.r. should butt out of it and that china specifically was saying that this meeting this special meeting shouldn't really be happening at all so there is a strong draft resolution which i can read you bits of it now it says that we expressed deep concern at the deck. aeration of the state of emergency imposed in min ma by the military but strongly deploring the arbitrary detention of democratically led elected members of the government this is what's the haps the members are going to be voting on we want to see whether that vote is necessary if they will say well we agree with this and it will go through it's a 47 member council and it needs just

a simple majority to be passed and that vote is upcoming many thanks indeed rory channels their lives for us in brighton in the u.k. earlier we spoke to tom andrews the un special rapporteur on human rights and he's been giving evidence to the un to the human rights council meeting in geneva he believes that live ammunition is being used against protesters. we now have incredible access to video footage and documentation of what's going on so we've seen live ammunition being shot being used we've seen people falling we've seen the harassment of individuals the people going into hiding journalists going into hiding. significant arrests that continue so we're watching very very closely and i wanted to make sure that the council had a true appreciation of the of the reality on the ground in the indian model which is quite horrific the representative from the in march talked about not interfering with their progress toward democracy i mean it's just absolutely stunning and

saying that you know we have to the protesters have to stand back in order to preserve democracy the tatmadaw the amazing thing is that they are violating the very constitution that they themselves wrote even their own rules they have violated making this coup completely illegal from however you look at it so it's just really quite bizarre frankly to see the arguments that they are that they're making in light of the reality that just about everybody else can see and hundreds of bill and his cities towns large and small coming out and protesting and it's an amazing cross-section of the me and mar society that are working and marching together monks buddhist monks watching marching with with with with with muslim leaders and it's just every ethnic group marching together all sectors of the economy on strike in on the street marching it's quite remarkable to see and yes

we're now seeing police. changing sides walking over the barricades and joining the protesters it's quite inspiring particularly when you consider the track record of the tatmadaw they have brutally massacred democracy activists in the past they've they've slaughtered. buddhist monks in saffron robes of course we know of the the massive atrocity crimes committed against the running or ethnic minority in rakhine state so this is our incredible acts of courage that we're seeing from the people of me and my but they are totally totally committed to making sure that they don't go back into the dark ages of this rule under this authoritarian regime. here with the news hour from al-jazeera still to come on the program we'll look at how racism and inequality is fueling vaccine hesitancy among ethnic minorities in the u.k. . the empty streets across east asia marked the usually bursting celebration that

bustling rather celebration of the lunar new year a holiday scaled back by the pandemic. and in sports we'll tell you about the formula one driver who's recovering after being knocked off his bicycle. so it is day 4 of donald trump's impeachment trial that brings in just a couple of hours it's his defense teams to present its case let's bring you up to speed with what we've got 2 so far the 1st 3 days have been dominated by house democrats that trying to convince the republican led senate that the former president committed high crimes and misdemeanors they say he's responsible for this the storming of capitol hill on january the 6th and that his woods whipped up a crowd who broke into the holes of power 5 people died more than $140.00 people were injured and politicians were forced to hide or run out of the building the house managers say that trump should never be allowed to hold office in the future

so that brings us to where we are right now trump's team will present its opening arguments in the coming hours that's expected to take maybe the next 2 days we have 3 correspondents covering it this for us our white house correspondent kimberly how good is standing by we'll have reaction from andy gallagher in west palm beach in florida close to where donald trump has his result but 1st let's go to heidi joe castro who's on capitol hill for us so what are we expecting to happen today. adrian trump's defense team has up to 2 days to present their argument but in fact we're expecting it to last less than 4 hours that's what trump's attorney david schoen said yesterday at the same time he said that the impeachment managers arguments thus far was like showing the video that many have acknowledged as powerful but he criticize it as saying it has not directly tie the violence back to trump we expect that argument to be fleshed out today with trump's defense saying

that the 1st amendment protected the president's words that he had a right to express his opinion just as any other american and they plan on showing a video of democrats lawmakers making insincere e remarks as part of political speech as well they'll also likely repeat the argument we heard earlier in the week that this trial is unconstitutional because trump is a former president now you may be wondering why again that argument which was rejected on monday by the senate well in reality it was an argument that did not convince a simple majority of senators that the trial was unconstitutional but it did convince at least a 3rd of the senate and that is all it takes to avoid a conviction and we heard from republican senators after hearing the presentations of the prosecution team basically say as such mike brown senator from south dakota

saying that although the evidence though the presentations have been powerful he and fellow republicans are still struggling with the issue of constitutionality but an indication of greater fracturing adrian in the republican party some statements just published in politico from nikki haley uns the press ambassador to the u.n. who wants to be the next republican elected president in. that article published today she broke with trump in stark terms saying we need to acknowledge he let us down he went down a path he shouldn't have and we shouldn't have followed him we can't let that ever happen again the words of chum's former ambassador to the un. how did your quest for reporting live from capitol hill many thanks indeed i do let's go to west palm beach in florida. and he gallagher with us of course having been deprived of.

and they we don't know very much about what the former president thinks of proceedings on capitol hill do we. you know that's true and we got used to over the 4 years of his presidency this almost constant stream of consciousness remember during his 1st impeachment trial in just one day he tweeted that 140 times he's now been muzzled from social media so all we're getting are reports from people said to be close to him various reports saying he's mood is pretty upbeat other reports suggesting that he was deeply unhappy with the opening remarks of his defense team and may even change the team but we know that he wants this entire 2nd impeachment trial to be over fairly quickly but that will not be the end of his legal woes there is a case now being opened in the u.s. state of georgia following that hour long call that the former president made with broad ruffins berger the secretary of state there a republican in which he specifically asked for one more vote than he needed to win

the state so that criminal investigation could well be very wide unvarying there are various charges being considered including racketeering and trying to influence an election that may well go before a grand jury so that is a case i think that trumps legal team has to keep a close eye on because he cannot depend on republicans to defend him in that case it's an entirely different ballgame meanwhile here in west palm beach there was a meeting of the city council on thursday because there are some people in this city that don't want the former president living at mar a lago they say that he will lower the house prices here this is of course a very rich community that doesn't seem like a battle that certain residents here will win but i think it goes to the fact that president trump is a very divisive character even in a city that has resided in for so long i was zeros and he gallagher reporting live from west palm beach in florida many thanks andy let's bring in our white house correspondent kimberly how could i gather that

a certain someone has been taking coffee with the president today will look at you apart from caffeine did. you get anything else out of the president biden there's. there's no presidential seal on here just the remnants of my lipstick unfortunately but trust me we have the video to prove it joe biden handed me a cup of coffee this morning as he was out for his morning stroll you can see these hearts that are behind me love compassion courage peace this is something that the 1st lady dr jill biden and joe biden believe the country needs right now particularly because there is such sort of painful memories that are being stirred up on capitol hill they're trying to move things forward and so the president came for a stroll with his dogs we should add to talk to reporters about that specifically here's what he had to say as he handed me a cup of coffee i'll bring it down it's next friday he come back to the fair but i

thought i better do what i apologize here i think i got. i did he just forgot to take us to come on i promise you i'm going to get in trouble i don't know my math on hard work i did have a oh thank you i appreciate it. the reason i didn't have my mask is because i was putting on my makeup to get ready for the live shot just to be clear masks are important as we continue to battle this pandemic but i think what this nice moment underscores as we look towards the valentine's day holiday here in the united states and around the globe is that this is an administration does trying to move forward is trying to turn the page from some of the pain of the past whether it be the penn demick whether it be the impeachment trial this is something that joe biden says he's not really weighing in on even as reporters the repeatedly tried to press about the impeachment he said he doesn't plan to talk to any senators particularly rough publican senators if they may vote to convict the president instead what he's saying is that he believes that some of their minds may have been

changed but his mind hasn't changed and that is that he is working for the american people he is working to see them vaccinated he's announced a goal of 300000000 americans being vaccinated by the end of the summer and that's what he said he is focused on and that is why he says he and his wife jill biden are trying to provide this kind of hope for americans that they are going to reach that goal a white house correspondent committee how could live the white house in washington many thanks indeed company michael isikoff is the chief investigative correspondent at yahoo news he joins us now by via skype from washington could tell you with us again michael so trump's defense team begin. today but to what extent is this academic because hillary clinton pointed out in a tweet tonia. many of his coconspirators is sitting on the jury. well certainly the house managers even though they presented what everybody

believes is a powerful and compelling case have a steep hill to climb because they've got to convince 17 republicans to vote for conviction now that seems unlikely but i should point out that there are signs that repub the some of what the house managers have to say is cutting through and you're getting at least the knees among some republicans and possibly some who are willing to change their mind look at the trump defense team is gambling that that they've got this in the bag that enough senators have already objected to the constitutionality of the trial that they don't have to worry so much about the facts you're going to hear today a big degree of what a ballot is i'm. the house managers put the focus on trump's rhetoric you'll hear

a lot about democratic over heated political rhetoric you'll hear about violence that grew out of some of the black lives matter protests last summer so you'll hear some of that you know you'll hear repeatedly that the president did say at one point people should march peacefully and that was one line in a in a line of a lot of other extreme rhetoric that the president used but you look they're saying they want to wrap this up in 3 or 4 hours that's a lot less than the house use then i think that's the gamble that the lawyers are making that they don't need to put on that extensive a defense case some samia republicans michael met with trump's defense team yesterday what what are we to read into that. well i think it's i think it's a real sign that some of those republican senators who did engage in the meeting

ted cruz being one of them are a bit nervous because the house presentation was so powerful and it least in its opening the trump defense lawyers didn't do that great a job the 1st one bruce castor was a disaster the 2nd one david schoen who you'll be hearing a lot more from today did a better job but not nearly as effective as what the house managers did so and clearly it raises. some eyebrows when senators who are at least supposed to be impartial they swore an oath to be impartial are meeting with the defense lawyers that seems would seem to undercut that oath of impartiality always good to talk to michael many thanks indeed michael isikoff that in any time in the u.k. supreme court is allowing nigerian fishermen and famous to sue oil giant shell and

british courts lawyers representing more than $40000.00 nigerians so that oil leaks in the niger delta of contaminated the land of water the ciancia say that show has a duty of care despite the multinational company arguing that u.k. courts don't have jurisdiction to hear the case. here's some more context let's look at ric the recent legal battles involving shell in january a dutch court found its nigerian subsidiary responsible for spills in the niger delta between 2004 and 7 judges awarded as yet unspecified damages to local farmers but in november the nigerian supreme court upheld an order to pay nearly $500000000.00 in compensation for oil spills in the 1960 s. 6 years ago shell agreed to pay more than $80000000.00 to the niger delta as a boater community for 2 oil spills in 2008 his royal highness godwin baby of bobby is king of the a galley and chai kingdom he joins us now live via skype from

a gallery good to have you with us so what's your reaction to this court ruling. well we really have to be. very grateful to the. supreme lot of the united kingdom. for all of your you know this is very right just brant and. we need to know when we hear all. these point. don't share the. subsidy areas where the. drug is not caught system and want to see down real's for us to discuss how to reinstall. the groundwater that they have destroyed and i'm gonna need to remediate

a well inland and how to deal multilaterally route would be not only for several years of people out dying due to. their activities and it seems 1956 and so we have a very very happy for the room this this court ruling is is significant but of course the fight isn't over yet is it what difference to the lives of the people the 40000 or so people who've been directly affected by the oil spill what difference would a win in the court when they sue royal dutch shell make to their lives. where have the activists leave who or. even know who and there are at least. if they can because pairs. these are not a car and in this case

a lawyer can be got a pair at least to take care of the underground water they destroyed in the town and begin to look at how their strange disease is now in our guy here as a result of 'd the destruction of the government. scheme is easy. on a lot of strange strange disease that is going on so and proper medical. records of lucky for him be taking. and saw it in canada never eat a whole lot under a percent. of work live our lives. but at least we can begin to the progress and mix of programs so that is legal what is john and dancehall there again. then one of the

huge amount of money. to lawyers to keep dragging dragging us to court systems they can use to judge people are supreme the united nations report says that then want to order a lot in organ is contaminated to 90 point one percent the level of being seen that's what people are drinking here saw. so yes these really nice even are some subtle or so we're very happy aware. to the british court system and on our spirits here so many thanks indeed for being with us as well highness can got wind of barbary thank you thank you for joining us to bring. the weather next here on al-jazeera ben the head of japan's a little pickle guys in committee has resigned after a sexist comments he made about women in the u.k.

economy has recorded its biggest annual contraction in more than 300 years but the kind of bounce back but it's course action from the history of as one former champion flies into one for. hello the weather's looking fine and dry across much of the middle east simply some pieces of high sea cloud for the most pop but that's easing away plenty of sunshine we will see want to see showers just around the black sea pushing over towards the caucuses and then behind my head you can see some wetter weather just starting to filter it out of greece pushing across turkey and that's going to become really quite heavy at times as we go on through the next few days and i think by the end of the week and early part of next week one of 2 spots in say into the the great

mountains could see around a meter of snow forces something to watch out for that elsewhere as i said across the middle east it's fine it's light plenty of sunshine that sunshine stretching down into a good parts of east africa we have got the usual seasonal rains doing quite nicely across the heart of africa got to draw your attention to the weather this disturbance in the mozambique channel now that may well develop into a tropical storm as we go through the next couple of days either way very heavy rain it's a western parts of madagascar heavy rain to the eastern areas of mozambique particular doubts was the south sea how the winds are coming in from a general southeasterly direction pushing further south which as we go through the next couple of days it maes the chance of flooding rains east and pasta south africa. as a weapon of war leaves the very deepest scars. scars so wrong that the victims men

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hello again avery and fitting in with you here in doha with the news from out 0 of the headlines the u.n. experts on the u.n. on human rights in myanmar are still down to 0 there's compelling evidence that the military is using live ammunition against protesters hundreds of thousands have been gathering on the 7th consecutive day of demonstrations against the coup. the impeachment trial of donald trump resumes in 90 minutes time the former president's defense lawyers are set to make their case on thursday democrats argue the president while the evidence that he incited the capital warrants for the u.k. supreme court is allowing nigerian fishermen and farmers to sue oil giant shell in

british courts lawyers representing more than $40000.00 nigerians say the oil leaks in the niger delta of contaminated that land and or so. member states of the international criminal court is set to vote for its next chief prosecutor 4 candidates are contesting to replace the 2 pence sudha who's 19 and in june the u.k. scream com is along the front runner as he heads the un's body that's investigating eisel crimes in iraq spiny and carlos custer sama fernandez says another contender he's the prosecutor at the court of order to us in spain fogle gave up of ireland has been one of the judges of the specialized chambers for kosovo ghana is also the victim's representative on the afghanistan and palestine cases before the court and francesco lo voi all of it's really has been the public prosecutor of palermo since 2014 let's go live now to the u.n. al-jazeera james bays is there for us james is there

a front runner here. yes i think the word on the street when you speak to diplomats is that it looks likely that the front runner is karim karna of the u.k. he has quite a high profile job right now he runs the u.n. unit that is based in baghdad and has been investigating the crimes committed by eisel but there are 3 other contenders and this is an unusual process that has come to this this will be the 3rd chief prosecutor of the international criminal court in the past this job has been chosen by consensus they haven't needed to bring it to a vote but this time it seems they cannot reach an agreement so they are going to put it to a vote vote eagle eye viewers will spot is happening here in new york although you know the international criminal court is based in the hague that's because not all

of the 123 countries that have signed the statute that set up the international criminal court actually have embassies in the hague they all have representatives here so it's happening in the un general assembly it's going to happen as a series of votes we expect because someone has to get a complete majority out of the 123 countries someone has to get half of that 63 so that's very unlikely with 4 candidates to happen in the 1st round and given coded coded restrictions of the voting this is probably going to be quite a long drawn out procedure but extremely important adrian because remember this is the key body that is sides on crimes against humanity and war crimes around the world and although this is a position that's independent and is a legal position everything with the international criminal court is politically charged and 2 key areas i think we need to look at one the fact that the international criminal court said recently it had jurisdiction with regard to

crimes that were the place in the palestinian territory. that's a hot potato for the prosecutor and also potentially is the idea that the court might investigate crimes in afghanistan committed by various parties including the u.s. both israel and the u.s. not at all happy with what the court might do and so that's what makes this job will be decided in the coming hours and hours serious diplomatic editor james bay is reporting live from the u.n. james many thanks. to. the u.k.'s economy has recorded its biggest annual contraction in more than 300 years driven largely by the impact of the coronavirus its g.d.p. shrank nearly 10 percent in 2020 it's the largest decline among g 7 countries it did however grow one percent at the end of the year which means that britain of verdant averted a so-called double dip recession well there are concerns in the u.k.

about why few are black and minority health care workers are getting the vaccine compared to their colleagues at some british hospitals only a quarter of black staff have got the job they've barker reports from london. there's something wrong with britain's vaccine rollout the country's way ahead of the rest of europe but vaccine has didn't see could derail government plans to give every adult in the country a dose by september the hesitancy is down racial lines in a country where black women are 5 times more likely to die during pregnancy and covert death rates for most ethnic minorities are higher compared to white people longstanding health inequalities say leading don't his have eroded confidence in the vaccine. in a recent survey 72 percent of black respondents said they were unlikely to have the job despite being most at risk of dying from the disease and according to one study

a 5th of all care home staff and many workers in the country's national health service the n.h.s. a choosing not to be vaccinated 1400000 people work in the n.h.s. they are are told our society and what happens in the wider social world is bound to be reflected within within the n.h.s. workforce now what we do not want is for but we knew about misinformation to take the lives of individuals due to a potential lock up understanding or because. this is the hospital where the prime minister boris johnson was treated when he contracts in coronavirus the hospital trust told us that overall 80 percent of staff have been vaccinated from surgeons to secretaries but only a quarter of black african black caribbean staff and even fewer staff and filipino backgrounds. a vaccine scandal that plague the philippines for years has had

a negative impact on uptake here developed by a french company during baxi it was proven to dramatically reduce severe dengue fever but had to be relabeled after it was found it could cause more severe illness in children who have already have the disease even though none of the $30000.00 children in the clinical trial were affected and the vaccine still worked well the damage has been done effectively use of a whole range of proven treatments i look after international interests and the ones that. are coming are the younger generation the children that were given injection and could be relatives of the nurses who we have now or are people that they already know or you know and that scares them. a vaccine center in a birmingham mosque the government says it can't force people to have the job but what it can do is tackle some of the myths surrounding the vaccine including that

it contains pork or can alter people's d.n.a. and that means reaching out to different communities reshaping the narrative to help people make the right decision the park out 0 london american is a doctor with the u.k.'s national health service at a senior lecturer at the lead school of medicine he says that the government will have to work hard to undo the mistrust built over generations. it's really complicated so a lot of the parts of the historical. people from minority ethnic and black backgrounds haven't had good experiences with health care with members of both or it's a figure and with the government you can relate about the chopper thing in black where you can see a good outcome than bangladeshi family a lot poorer when compared to their white counterparts and that led to a mistrust of the health care system going forward in the pandemic we think people

from black and ethnic minority groups die much higher numbers in the u.k. when compared to people from the minority background and actually waiting we thought after the 1st to lock down we thought the numbers start to go up again they started to go up. cities where there were high density people from black and minority ethnic background and they were then blamed for that fact as well and they had their religious holidays disrupted more so than christmas was was was locked down very very very very short notice and say with a volley so there's a lot of mistrust and that is extended now to when when i say to them actually you know it's safe to have this vaccine anything the fact the letter telling is well so far you haven't really supported it so why should we believe you now and there's a lot of work to be done to do all about base trust france germany and the u.k. so that iran isn't dangerous any future nuclear negotiations by producing iranian

metal nuclear inspectors or the terrans become developing a metal despite it being banned by the 2015 nuclear deal european leaders say that iran has no civilian justification to produce the uranium which is a component. to develop a nuclear weapon. domestic violence has been on the rise in most countries since the start of the pandemic rights groups in iraq say that women that often have no choice but to remain with abusive partners because iraqi law restricts to help support groups zero-sum out of 14 has been out with a community police unit in baghdad. assadi from iraq community police is following up a case of domestic violence in the capital baghdad 'd. we're on our way to solder city to visit families that suffered from domestic violence do you copy. according to police there's been

a 20 percent increase in domestic violence since the start of the coronavirus pandemic sutter city is one of baghdad's poorest neighborhoods and is said to be among the worst affected the has been married for 18 years she says her husband began beating her last year shocking i know there are problems with the house when it rains it gets flooded we don't have an income the kids need to go to school and i cannot afford it whenever i talk to him about the issue he beats me and. the her call to the community police which is part of the ministry of interior to intervene more young men. being out of it reach the point where they were going to divorce and the family would break up intervene in any issue to unite the family to prevent the breakup of families which may lead to tribal conflicts. to solve the case the unit worked closely with local tribes the community police claims to have a 90 percent success rate and resolving the mess that abuse cases but critics say

the unit reinforces conservative social norms prioritizing reconciliation over victims rights. lawyer say many women drop cases against partners because of lack of money and social pressure but. the social values and customs consider is shameful for the woman to file a complaint against her husband or brother even if she did file a case as soon as her family hears about it she will drop it. and victims often have nowhere to go anyway there is one government run shelter in baghdad but it only provides accommodation on a judge's order. some women seeking urgent refuge turn to rights groups that run underground operations this woman and during her husband's abuse for more than 20 years. we have tribal rules if the woman left her husband's house or her parents' house she will be killed. the tipping point was when he began to sexually harass

their daughters one night they crept out of their home and came to this shelter. the law doesn't protect me maybe they will find my location i'm scared to sleep at night i'm afraid of the tribes. although these shelters offer a lifeline to women escaping abuse they have to operate in secret because they're illegal under iraqi law last year the government filed a lawsuit against the group that runs it accusing it of breaking up families just lost those are the cabinet demanded to dissolve the organization we managed 3 repeated sessions to get the law case dismissed by the government to pealed and now we are waiting to find a solution. the prime minister's office didn't respond to repeated requests for comment. at the mess that violence law that would legalize these shelters has been stalled in parliament for years amid widespread political opposition until such

a law is passed rights groups say iraqi women will struggle to escape abuse at home simona fulton al jazeera but that. we told you earlier about emergency session of the u.n. human rights council. received a letter from 300 m.p.'s in myanmar accusing the joints of the of gross violations the un human rights council has unanimously adopted a british e.u. resolution on me calling for the release of almost sons suchi and others really detained it urged the military and minamata lift all restrictions on internet telecommunications as well and to exercise restraint with protesters let's bring in a story chalons who's been following this meeting from brighton in the u.k.

rory what more do we know. yeah well i mean the the the human rights council was meeting in a special session that was called by the u.k. and the e.u. together acting in concert and we have been hearing a whole range of voices the different ambassadors from many countries giving their perspective on what's been going on in the end mark recently throughout the day. the draft resolution which had been orally amended. to take in certain concerns that china had had was was adopted unanimously it was 47 member. agreement essentially with a few voices of of objection there was russia which says that it wants to dissociate itself with the with this resolution draft resolution and there was

venezuela that has all also said the same and unsurprisingly me and mar itself what the resolution essentially does is is say that the situation in myanmar as it currently is. is unacceptable that the. military or thora g.'s there have to release people that they've been detaining that they need to roll back on on the take over of power essentially and then they and they have to let in. and to do more work to the un human rights council's special rapporteur who was speaking earlier on of the session so i think the the the russians the chinese the venezuelans except for our loaden voices really in what has been a pretty unified position from have the human rights council and its

many of its members which is essentially that what what has been going on in myanmar is a gross violation of human rights and 0 as were a chance reporting live henri many thanks indeed. just ahead here all the news out by munich when the world cup here you can see all the details coming up but sorry.

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a soon as possible officer sherry mori officially resigned on friday over his recent sexist comments that he'd been facing major backlash in japan and abroad saying that women talk too much and have a strong sense of rivalry so it's a motor a major olympic sponsors and also voiced concerns over his comments and this is the latest controversy to hit the 2020 summit games which were postponed for a year because of the pandemic. pictures not seeing. if my inappropriate remarks cause turmoil i'm sincerely sorry for causing trouble for so many including organizing committees and everyone involved in the olympics as long as i remain in this position it causes trouble it would ruin everything we've built up until now and this cannot be allowed to. well since that resignation there have been reports that a woman japan's a limb pick minister psycho how she most could replace mari we've been speaking to a piece toto correspondent stephen wade has been telling us more about her background i think the leading candidates say go how she most who is right now the

olympic minister she's a former olympian a bronze medalist in speed skating in 1902 and how her feel she seems to be the top candidate nobody today would say that but i think if you read between the lines there asking the nice might of atlantic experience somebody who's been involved with the olympics in tokyo and the like to get a woman for going to 6 you know they need a woman in somebody who's under 80 years old and she fits all bill so if you had to make a bet i would say sequel how she will do is probably going to be their choice when they announce it and they haven't really said when that's going to be it could be a week 2 weeks that part's unclear fans have been just south of the australian open tennis tournament off to the states of victoria and outs and novel coronavirus knock down to $30000.00 spectators are allowed in every day in melbourne city that's all been scrapped over an outbreak it's a quarantine hotel and a 5 day lockdown which kicks in on sunday will stop presidents leaving home except full work to shop essential for example in caregiving as well as limited exercise

play will continue that the players will compete in a bubble form 'd not dissimilar to what they've been doing right throughout the year in fact this was the 1st event they played in front of with in front of crowds and now for the next 5 days they will continue to play and could do to compete. fans weren't too happy as they were asked to leave at 11 30 pm which meant novak joke which the match had to be stopped for the arena emptied in the lockdown kicked in and rock which the world number one a defending champion went on to win a 5 sets against taylor fritz the serbian star is concerned he might have to pull out of the tournament saying that during the 3rd round when he tore a muscle. and before that some lucky fans were treated to the best match of the tournament so far between dominic team and home player nick kyrgios who with the

help of an underarm serve to could 2 set lead to get the crowd excited but the u.s. open champion team fought back really to win the match in 5 sets now the australian 4 seed heading into round 4 to face dimitrov. who was a big match i think huge it forward from both players actually. honestly i was sort of the. foremost on their way home and serena williams won her latest match to reach round 4 working very hard to beat russia's anastasia put a poster in straight sets this rally lasted 20 shots but 39 year old serena showed great court coverage and eventually came out on top she's aiming to tie the record for 24 grand slam titles. and the 2019 champion iommi asarco had a pretty easy day apart from this moment here when a butterfly landed on her face but she didn't let it distract so too much increased her straight sets win over to his ears on starboard next stop though she's up

against guard binya will go ruther in the 1st heavyweight clash of the tournament. by media who won the cobb world cup in caps hard to come only 2nd team in history to claim all 6 trophies available to them in a good year the german european champions beat mexican side to this one in the final to go from benjamin was initially ruled out for offside bought it was then avoided by the video assistant referees you can just see right that by and without striker thomas miller who tested positive to cope with 19 but they still managed to pick up yet another trophy. now as things stand near a pin championships are still set to take place in june and july across 12 european cities if inspectors visited one of the venusians and petersburg in russia and local officials there are planning on a full capacity stadium but you're

a fast rest there are many factors which could stop that from happening we are not here you know to spoil anything so we would like to have a festival and everybody is happy and people need to be happy as well when they go back home but this is going to be a football festival and there's a lot of people who would like to join but in the end we will have to assess together with the local authorities as well in the international context we will very clearly assess you know what is what is feasible what is reasonable formula one driver for and along so see it recovering rather after being hit by a car while riding his bicycle in switzerland he said to be conscious in awaiting further medical tests of some reports saying that he's broken his jaw pre-seasons testing is set to start on march the 12th and that's all your sport for now they'll be more later sorry thanks deep dark just about to search for the new south but still use star stops i'll be back in just a moment with the balls today's top stories and see if.

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