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west africa health workers say at least 3 people have died in guinea. and goes to the polls in a parliamentary election the results could complicate its territorial disputes with serbia. and i'm side of the natives sports arena will industry to the quarter finals of the australian open but men's 3rd domenic team is alps. so for a 2nd time former u.s. president donald trump has a state conviction during an impeachment trial maybe had expected the acquittal delivered by the senate but 70 republican side with democrats in favor of impeachment trump was accused of inciting the capitol hill riots on january the 6th unofficial begins our coverage. the a's are 57 days for ease 3 for a 2nd time donald trump acquitted of high crimes and misdemeanors by the u.s.

senate john trunk former president. is not to go to is charged the charge he incited the crowd ahead of the violent riot at the capitol on january the 6th. 57 senators said he did including 7 republicans but that's not enough for the 2 thirds majority to convict this was about choosing country over donald trump and 43 republican members chose trump they chose trump it should be a weight on their conscience today the day started with a surprise the democrats asking for witnesses a move which could delay the process we would like the opportunity to subpoena congresswoman herrera regarding her communications with house minority leader kevin mccarthy and to subpoena her contemporaneous notes that she made regarding what president trump told kevin mccarthy in the middle of the insurrection if they want

to have witnesses i'm going to need at least over 100 depositions not just one both sides though wanted to bring this to a quick end so reached agreement which meant new witnesses and a move to closing statements from the man who led the prosecution an appeal to senators to meet the moment senators this trial in the final analysis is not about donald trump the country in the world know who donald trump is this trial is about who we are who we are this is almost certainly how you will be remembered by history that might not be fair. he really buy not be fair but none of us can escape the demands of history and destiny right now trump's team so often echoed the ex president supports this impeachment has been a complete charade from beginning to and the entire spectacle expect

a call has been nothing but the unhinged pursuit of a long standing political vendetta against mr trump by the opposition party it is time to bring this concept unconstitutional political theater to an end it is time to allow our nation to move forward with the result 10 donald trump meet his 1st comment since the trial began a statement from his florida home thanking senators for their vote but insisting this is yet another phase in the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country no president has gone through anything like it but one of his closest allies in the senate who voted to acquit him made it clear the former president was responsible for what happened present troubles for everything he did while he was out of as an ordinary sort of a less structured one occasion to iran. for every day i could. watch it all

and get away with anything yeah yeah the decision here means that donald trump will not be excluded for running for political office in the future he could run again for the presidency in 2024 his supporters say he should and he would when but despite the not guilty plea january the 6th will always be attached to donald trump's presidency on the day when democracy was threatened in america alan fischer al-jazeera on capitol hill what house speaker nancy pelosi didn't hold back when referring to the 43 republican republican senators who back to trumpet calling their refusal to convict him the most dishonorable act in american history. but what we saw in that senate today was a cowardly group of republicans who patently have no options because they were afraid to defend their job respect the institution in which they served

so how has donald trump reacted to the time he got here is in the west palm beach in florida where the former president's result. the one message from that statement that was released within minutes of him being acquitted is that don trump is going nowhere and he told his supporters that his role to make america great again has only just begun and there will be big announcements in the months to come so it's pretty clear at the moment this is in many ways donald trump's republican party he is a looming figure here but the wider question is i think what does this do to the republican party who are the republican party going forward are they people like marjorie tele green who believes in cuban on or are they people like liz cheney who voted against trump and is more of a moderate republican there's no question now that dan trump has political plans going forward the big question is what are those plans is he going to run in 2024 as many people believe or is he going to seek revenge on those 7 republicans that

voted him guilty in all of this so we haven't heard or we haven't seen from donald trump since this all began this is the longest period i think in the last few years that he stayed this quiet for this long of course he's not on twitter anymore one of his favorite platforms before he was banned from that and i'm not a magic thing seeing him on t.v. any time soon because it's the weekend here on monday it's president's day which is a national holiday and we all know that president former president trump likes prime time so. i guess the country is waiting with bated breath to see what he says next in particular to see what he says about mitch mcconnell after that scathing speech in which one of the most senior republicans laid the blame squarely at trump's feet president joe biden issued a statement after trump's acquittal he says that even though there was no conviction the charge is not in dispute and even those opposed to the conviction

like senate minority leader mcconnell believe donald trump was guilty of disgraceful dereliction of duty and practically and morally responsible for provoking the violence unleashed on the capitol. unless there is some we can speak to scott lucas who is a professor of international politics at the university of berkeley and joins us now via skype because so one headline i read among the many trump cleared but the trump a brand that moved is that how you say it. i'm not sure if the truck brand is damaged for the trumpets and there in lies the big story this is not going to be biden ministration versus republicans this is going to be the fight inside the republican party in 2021 that fight will be between donald trump and the trumpets and those are included a lot of senators many representatives and mitch mcconnell the senate republican leader what you saw play out immediately after the vote was mitch mcconnell who had protected donald trump his last act of protection in the past 4 years by ensuring

that he was acquitted and mediately turn and said yes dong trump was in effect guilty of incitement of insurrection we let him off on a technicality but then mcconnell wants that further if you listen carefully to that clip you played mcconnell saying that donald trump could be liable in criminal courts almost and asking the criminal justice system to now take up this case that means mcconnell wants to purge dropped from the republican party but the big question is are trump's followers too strong to be cut loose mcconnell's position is interesting is that you do wonder why he did not vote to convict given the vitriolic response he had off to the the acquittal. i think there's 2 reasons plane the 1st is that human nature connell at the end of the day was a political animal who's a pragmatist didn't want to give the democrats a victory secondly i think mitch mcconnell knows that there's a real problem inside the republican party which is that he's got

a lot of legislators who for their own political reasons are willing to work with trump and he's looking at republican voters who have said in opinion polls throughout the past few months even after the cattle attack that donald trump is their preferred candidate in 2024 for president and remember this fight doesn't start in 2024 it starts next year because donald trump will put up his loyalists those people he considers to be good tropfest versus republican incumbents and races for the senate and for the house and the suggestion for mcconnell the say that said trump could yet be tried in a criminal court do you think he could. oh yes i mean we already have cases while donald trump is president being investigated against him his associates and the trump organization those include possible charges of fraud tax evasion other financial crimes we wait to see when the new york attorney general brings indictments last week in georgia opened up a criminal prosecution or criminal best

a geisha i should say over whether donald trump may have obstructed justice by putting pressure on their officials to overturn the election and federal level remember that donald trump could be prosecuted for his attempts to overturn the election and indeed for his involvement in the trunk brush affair where the evidence found according to the motor report at least 8 cases of obstruction of justice or attempted obstruction of justice and i guess what happens there really has an implication on what the future of the republican party is and whether or not they can emerge and drove themselves away from the what they would regard as the some would regard as the toxic wrong. having protected donald trump problems for years mitch mcconnell is asking the courts to protect him to protect campaign the so-called establishment republicans but their problem is they helped create don't try they helped work with him over the past 4 years to try to put one over on the democrats they are the ones you created frankenstein's monster and they don't want

you know how to deal with them. all right scott lucas great to get your perspective from that assists appreciate that thanks a lot thank your crowds are out demonstrating against me and military rulers for a 9th consecutive day generals are giving themselves new powers to moments it is to detain people involved in protests activists say they're concerned by the increase in night time police raids more than 380 people have been detained since military sees and i was in a queue on february the fests and it's been to florence louis our correspondent is following developments from malaysia and she joins us live now from kuala lumpur and tell us how things are shaping up today. while the people in myanmar really seem to be keeping up the pressure on the giunta protests are taking place all across the country in yangon crowds have gathered in different parts of the city in front of the u.n. building in front of the chinese the u.s. embassies at the main intersection in the city of downtown and the city center

there's also a protest there naked or earlier on sunday a large convoy of cars and motorbikes drove through the capital some protestors holding up pictures of democratically elected leader aung san suu kyi demanding her release and there was also a protest in mandalay where protesters paid tribute to a young demonstrator who was shot during a protest by police and remains in critical condition well so getting reports that protests are taking place in smaller towns and also in ethnic dominate inec minority dominated areas so people are turning up on the streets of and in the streets of cities and towns across despite a military ban on gatherings of more than 5 people despite the military warning that actions would be taken against people who break the law as people are keeping up the pressure on the military jointer yes this is what the generals are countering by it by giving themselves new powers.

that's why they appear to be reintroducing laws that half back to the days of the military giunta these are really repressive laws now one of them is reinstating a law that requires people to report overnight guests in their homes this was a law that was used by the military there by the previous military to keep track of people's whereabouts and it was repealed by the. government that was in power for one term and it's now being brought back on top of that other provisions in the law have also been suspended which essentially gives police the power to go inside someone's home and conduct a search operation without obtaining court approval they also don't need to seek a court approval before they detain someone for more than 24 hours or really these are more repressive laws that are being brought back and activists and protesters obviously fear that this means there will be easier for security forces to detain people now a group that that fights for the rights of political prisoners say that at least

$360.00 people who have been who were detained since the start of the coup have are still being held so obviously there's a lot of an ease that there could be more mass arrests than that these laws could signal the beginning of that but that's still not enough to stop people from turning up on the streets in yangon and also in other cities to demand that democracy be restored or. consumers for through the will of the. plenty more still ahead on news hour including. bahrain 10 years on we look back at the only gulf country to see protests during the 2011 arab spring. blooming but no longer booming we meet the flower groves in zimbabwe refusing to give up on their struggling businesses. and in sports things go very wrong one north america's cup challenges here is final.

so the u.n. estimates up to 400000 children in yemen could die of acute malnutrition this year the year's long cold flick has devastated the country and the pandemic has only made things worse as this report. a comedy a tell her is 13 years old earlier this month she weighed just 11 kilograms she arrived at this hospital in sanaa in desperate need of treatment for acute malnutrition so bob. did have well the reason she was so poorly fed is because we have no income no work no assistance from organizations or the united nations we had displaced. her family couldn't afford the journey to hospital so they asked friends and neighbors to help raise funds as a man may find that that was given to men the reason she has malnutrition is because we don't have food or anything else her father has passed away we don't

have anything and because of this sometimes she doesn't eat. a lack of food and other traumas nearly killed to her but her case is not unique. the u.n. says 400000 children in yemen could die from starvation this year if they don't get help but the head of the man who trish unmoored at this hospital says offering help is getting harder i loved as the hilarious may have been. we cannot cope with the health situation there are severe shortages in supplies and the treatments needed in examinations everything we asked the united nations and other aid organizations to help lift a blockade as soon as possible. severe acute malnutrition means there is a risk of death from lack of food aid in her day the thais and so on are mung the worst hit areas and are closed off from receiving international aid because of increased regional fighting and a global pandemic nearly half of the aid that was expected this year hasn't come through. even when families managed to get their sick children to hospital

sometimes it's too late but it had occurred with most of these patients they need 2 or 3 days of travel to be able to reach the hospital and so now to their conditions worsen by the time there is a hospital and we usually expect complications. toher has gained weight since being admitted but has a long recovery ahead while famine has never been officially declared in yemen the u.n. continues to warn that its close we are hard in al-jazeera. rebels have attacked security forces in democratic republic of congo's 2nd largest cities has been heavy gunfire that's a military base in the city of new bassy least 4 people have reportedly been killed let's get more now from carney who's on the line from the couple can tell us more about this attack is that a big important city. situation still very tense

in some areas you know. big city and very big town there reporting from so i think these militia on the most of them are right now trying to hide themselves. so soldiers are trying to follow them they report is also saying that some soldiers nothing when we killed one of the presidential. because 2 business where and one of them we have to mention that. the m. of dissimulation will still call of the 4 heavy. protected military business. so we have some soldiers have been killed also according to sources from military but or officially we have 4 militia those who were killed during the operation and of course soldiers were killed in different cities the big challenge to the military is also demolition civilian 2 s.

not in the military so it's very difficult to detect them when they are hiding themselves some of them have in the city so decide the current situation going on in the town. and this came into ongoing violence across much of d.l.c. to what degree is this putting pressure on the government and confessor. the pressure is very very high cause of the political situation let's remember well let's. 9 3 test on the leaders here in kinshasa and also of course. we have been we have been listening to different. general security. caused by man for example and also we have this official news story definitely going on. this is the stronghold of the former president joseph kabila and most of people in

the leaders of this area have been accusing. the president in kinshasa. for not leading political to and also targeting some. really leading with president joseph kabila and himself is in. the same so it isn't really a political situation linked to this what is happening right now. definitely we will be following what. what is happening in. india for a fraud situation there and. thanks very much for health officials in guinea have reported the deaths of 3 people from boehner at least 11000 people died during an epidemic in west africa that last between 20132016 the virus is also being reported in democratic republic of congo let's cross cross to never talk in the dock for us

nic getting was hit hard by this last time around so people will be very worried what do we know so far. yes very worried indeed i mean the health authorities right now for them it's a race against time to try to trace those that have been in contact or have touched patients 0 the 1st patient that has that was infected with the bowl of virus and we're talking about a nurse who works in the region of ns eric or a which is in the southwest of guinea now she develops symptoms diarrhea vomiting fever at her health center and the doctor there transferred her to demain health center and there are a core a that was on the 27th of january week later she died and there was a funeral on the 1st of february 8 people that attended that funeral have been infected with the virus now worrying sign nick is that there are cases both and there occur and then 300 kilometers away in the town of who would suggest that

there are many more cases that the government or the health authorities are not aware of and that's really the challenge right now is to try to contain this this outbreak. which in 2013 remember killed more than 11000 people and started right in that region of guinea spreading from one child and infecting tens of thousands of people across the border from sierra leone into library has about the challenge for the health authorities well also come out to say that they're going to purchase vaccines from the galbi which is the association the international body that controls the vaccine there are a half a 1000000 a bowl of vaccines available that should be enough to contain the virus but obviously the challenge is to try to get that. in in speedy time in those locations where people are being infected. it seems one thing on the how else what

else can they do to prevent further cases. well of course these are regions that are dealing with 3 outbreaks so obviously there is a corona virus outbreak decoded pandemic there's also bird flu and now the bold outbreak and the basic issue here is try to build trust between the population and health centers there's a common feeling among people that you go to the hospital to die not to survive and already we've seen in this latest bold outbreak that one of the people that had come into contact with with the disease the person that had a bullet well escaped and now she's a person is now in in treatment in the capital in cannot create so basic information trying to rebuild trust between health systems and the population that's going to be key to trying to contain this outbreak and we've seen it in the past countries where there is a poor health system of poor health infrastructures that's where the outbreak spreads further now in senegal they've closed off the border with guinea but that's

not to do with ebola virus outbreak that's to do with political unrest that's been happening in guinea but that was one of the measures that was taken during the bull outbreak and and what is happening in west africa is that they're taking the footprint or the steps that was taken to prevent the ebola outbreak to prevent the corona virus outbreak so already measures are in some are in place such as washing your hands social distancing wearing a mask those things that we use for the coded outbreak are very much useful for the goal outbreaks these are diseases when we're talking about corona bola and also bird flu have one thing in common there are diseases that come in but we call it so now it seems coming from animals and the reason that we're seeing this outbreak in this region of guinea is because there are primates and bats that carry the virus and then spread it on to humans but this is something that these health authorities are looking at. all right nic thanks very much indeed nic hack there on that

whirring situation in guinea well health organization investigator says that china has refused to hand over rule dates are on early coronavirus cases the show team visited the chinese city where the pandemic is believed to have emerged after a 4 week visit looking into the origins of the pandemic the team had wanted more information about the 1st cases back in december of 2019 but the investigation has been plagued by the lays about concerns about access and bickering between beijing and washington dominic dwyer is an australian infectious diseases expert on the w.h.o. team and he says that china only provided summaries on the early cases in the ideal world you would get if you were patient. and that's what we call it and that's standard practice for an outbreak investigation. why should the chinese guy because the dolls we would have liked. but that can still come

new zealand's largest city is going into a 3 day lockdown after 3 people tested positive for covert 19 essential services will remain open in oakland but other businesses and schools they will close new zealand has managed to keep the number of infections down with fewer than 3000 cases since the start of the random. lebanon has begun its vaccination drive after receiving its 1st shipment of the pfizer vaccine caretaker prime minister has india visited the hospital where the 1st shots were given about 28000 doses arrived on saturday the country has ordered 2700000 more through the global koufax ski a recent increase in cases has filled up intensive care units and has led to a shortage of oxygen cylinders. or the creative arts pandemic prune the profits of the world's flower industry or growers in zimbabwe were already struggling before the outbreak and now their country is in his worst economic state in years but

farmers are refusing to give up her with us reports now from the town of concerts. overseas demand for fresh cut flowers plummeted last year because of covert 19 and that's affected zimbabwe's biggest rose export company. managers say orders dropped to about 50 percent but this year they say demand is picking up. zimbabwe has high levels of unemployment and more orders mean more jobs on an average day on a summer's day rather riccarton area between 100230000 stems a day we have 700 labor force who are working from 621132325700 people on cutting so it's a nonstop operation more than 20 years ago flower exports brought in a lot of foreign currency for the country but under then president robert mugabe's land reform program the government seized thousands of white owned commercial farms

since then the industry hasn't been what it used to be back in 2001 zimbabwe was the 5th biggest exporter of flowers to the european union then came years of economic decline and now called me 19 many girls left but others are still here carrying on. kenya and ethiopia africa's top exporters explain how they have managed to stay in business we were dealing with auction system ok we're looking in and if you're a market that didn't plan only with auction system we deal directly with customers ok and. our our main customer base is the supermarkets and supermarkets in europe was the open because it was part of the essential and that allowed us that. they're there for its ability of so playing those markets. cold it has abetted businesses and economies globally is no different on this farm workers here receive

food parcels every month in addition to the salaries to help them push on and they know the job security depends on being able to export roses to more global markets . al-jazeera concision zimbabwe. still ahead here and i would say are struggling for stuff we look at the impact of a growing border dispute for farmers in eastern sudan struggling to age with dignity how a lack of medicine resources is hurting the lives of elderly people in syria. possible come out to 2 more goals for a little messy bosler and continue their winning streak. we've got signs of an end to europe's long cold winter moller tumbling in from the atlantic is because through the next couple of days the pale face it will turn

increasingly wet and windy we've got plenty of cold at the moment course central pass nasty little slowing down towards that eastern side of the mediterranean just running across greece and into were turkey a fair bit of snow on this one here's that mahler a started to push in as we go through the course of sunday and on into monday the yellows continue to strive their way further east was just one increase to code it has to be said of course at least the sort if you have moscow minus 15 minus 16 as we go on through cheese day and into way to stay that cold air still in place but many western and central parts should be a good deal milder by the time we come to the middle of next week ahead of that there's that snow moving across the achaean easing across a good part of turkey we've seen some heavy snowfall in the east and bowl recently plenty of snow into west and central parts of turkey as we go through the next couple of days and that will continue just pushes way further east was so very wet weather windy weather the weather really across that eastern side of the medicine

go through tuesday but milder wetter and windy towards the west. but. as a weapon of war leaves the very deepest scars. scars so wrong that the victims men and women can barely talk about it. they are the only witnesses who can help bring about justice al-jazeera fall as human rights campaigners in libya investigating rain since the 2011 revolution. libya unspeakable crime on al-jazeera water an essential resource for all humankind across europe pressure to recognise water as a human right and put its management back into public hands is increasing i think that the european commission would be very very glad to pose was proud as is shown

on anybody is the only field. goals people who seemed ever to have something to invest the profit of a 1 dollar up to the last drop on al-jazeera. we're going to get you watching al-jazeera your mind about top stories this hour and a former u.s. president donald trump has been acquitted in his 2nd impeachment trial 7 republican senators joined 50 democrats in a vote to convict him but that fell short of the 2 thirds majority needed. trump issued a statement welcoming the verdicts repeating his claim the trial was the greatest witch hunt in the country's history he also hinted at

a possible political future. crowds are out demonstrating against me and most military coup for a 9th consecutive day the generals who granted themselves new powers to militants and to detain people on all sides. of now demonstrations have been held in bahrain ahead of the 10th anniversary of the popular uprising against its want to keep bahrain was the only gulf country that saw protests during the 2011 arab spring. looks back at the crackdown on pro-democracy campaigns. this is how it looked when the arab spring breached the gulf region 10 years ago mr nugent 6000 people protested in the behind the cop to mina on february 14th 2011. the turnout was unprecedented they called to tell day of rage but to be addressed and behind had begun the year before the arab spring the country's majority shah population complained of marginalization by

a sunni more knock out initial demands included political and constitutional reform socio economic justice and that in east of detained political didas at the start of the protest they didn't seem to openly seek a complete removal of the ruling family. but the spectacular success of tunisian and egyptian protests has in toppling they'll powerful rulers gave a similar hope to those in behind. they occupied madonna's pearl roundabout and chanted for the creation of a democratic republic. the security forces intervened in a heavy handed manner. dozens of activists were injured all rested by the end of that day 21 year old idea that had to lay dead dozens more were killed in the months that followed. the killings ignited anger thousands of the occupied the

square a few days later. they pitched tents in an attempt to copy what happened in cairo's tahrir square during those initial weeks the behind the government seemed to offer concessions. the crown prince called for dialogue and laid out a plan of the constellation and reform but the show position expressed mistrust. i the protesters now demanded the actor removal of the ruling family and to the monarchy. on march 14th 2011 the gulf cooperation council dispatched 1500 soldiers with armored personnel carriers mostly from saudi arabia and the united arab emirates to behind to support the government. the same day the king declared a state of emergency now and the security forces to clear the per square by any means. hospitals choked with the wound

hundreds were arrested. iran and the protest leaders criticize the gulf countries military intervention describe it as an occupation and the other hand behind this government accused iran of meddling in its internal affairs by supporting the protest movement. the us navy which has its 5th fleet stationed in behind didn't seem to want to put real pressure on the government or to openly support any party in the uprising because of behinds geo political importance being you know between saudi arabia and iran and hosting the flames are now also a base for the united kingdom there are a lot of interests that are based on behind where and you know when we took to the streets in 2011 when knew that we weren't just up against the behind the government but rather the sixty's you see countries plus their allies the united kingdom and the united states over the years and with other arab spring countries sliding into anarchy and civil war behinds uprising began to fade. most of its shia political

leaders were locked up and are still in jail still the leaders of the uprising insist their struggle will continue as long as people's anger and grievances are not ted. holding parliamentary elections in the outcome could affect relations with serbia and indeed the rest of europe and the establishment polity is likely to win the most seats but its leader has ruled out any talks with serbia a country that calls for a break away from after a year long war in the late 1990 s. serbia balanced by russia does not recognize kosovo's independence and this has prevented kosovo from joining international agencies and indeed the european union . search is joining us now from the capital of pristina and. a snap elections what's led to this. yes actually these are the 2nd snatch parliamentary elections in less than

a year in the hull of and. out and the. elector next government it's a bit the government scenes the reason for such a situation are mostly the disagreement between correlation partners on very important issues like deal with corona virus and as mentioned issue all of you for ciliated dialogue with serbia as course was a serbian province and that's the clear in the pan those 13 years ago in serbia still does not recognise that some 1800000 of course ours are able to watch today and as you can see many of them are here in awarding stations besides the very cold event there and the snow they hope that next the government of course will be able to gain a political stability needed to deal with many problems that these youngest but those of the poorest european country have like economy recovery like job creations and when you talk with people in kosovo they will tell you that they need jobs also

there is an issue of liberal is a shame is people from course of our of the last in the region that need visas to travel almost anywhere in the europe there is an issue of them recall saw and the next course of a government of will have to deal with maintaining its health system in a country that has very big numbers when it comes to koran of virus also there is issue of dollars but that wasn't much of a subject during election campaign whereas it felt the most votes will go who are the favorites the. parliament has $120.00 seats and house plus one is needed to form a government but pre-election polls the favorite is a self determination movement led by former kosovo prime minister i'll be in court the. self-determination movement was an opposition movement for years known for

their radical actions like driving a tear gas into the assembly but they gain. elections in october 2900 after dadt. actually their government lost only for 50 days and but now they are hoping that they'll be able to form a government by themselves but at the polls say that they will probably need some partner any way the big numbers that are projected for us to tell that their nation say that this may mean very big turnover and political scene of course that force for the last 2 decades eliminated by. the park the alliance for the future of course so kosovo democratic league the part is that they're mostly parties of former of course over veterans like former president hushing touchy or parliamentary president kind of a cd that they're currently being detained in the hague all their devoted crimes

charges all right thanks for that in in pristina thank you people in spain as catalonia region voting in the election that could reshape its political landscape so because parties dominate the regional parliaments but polls suggest the socialist party which opposes catalan independence could make significant gains and the far right is projected to win seats for the 1st time sudan's border conflict with ethiopia is impacting farmers in gaza restate they're now being forced to hire workers from south sudan auster a reduction in labor from ethiopia have a morgan reports from the sudan ethiopian border. mujahid muhammad says this is the 1st harvest his supervised with workers from south sudan in the past his work force has come from nearby ethiopia but this year that is not possible. return of yet the truth of the fighting on the border between us and them is affecting the workers and their economic crisis is also returning work is the way they used to work in

good money but now out hound is constantly losing value his father who owns more than 4000 hectares of farmland here in sudan's eastern got out of state says the harvest has been slow this year market. south sudanese workers cover up to 70 percent of the shortage of ethiopian workers this year so normally we'd have covered more in terms of harvest but this year is different we're slightly back in harvesting schedule much of a lot of is covered with for thailand but sudan's eastern border has been witnessing the consequences of ethiopia's domestic issues fighting in ethiopia is not an integral region has resulted in people some who once came in as farm workers now coming into sudan as refugees and since december so dan's military has moved to take over a fertile 3000 square kilometer region in this state known as and for pushing back if european farmers the government uses a mind to colonial agreement to claim the area but ethnic on her farmers from

ethiopia say the area is part of their region and they have been farming it for nearly 5 decades without any objection from sudan's previous government the coronavirus pandemic has also reduced the number of if europeans coming in so that is authorities say hundreds of thousands of ethiopians looking for work used to come annually through the 2 border crossings and a lot of states their search for work sometimes takes them all the way to the capital how to this is now the only official crossing that is functioning and it's strictly only open to allowing if the open workers to work in farms hearing about of state or only 100000 are allowed this year a great reduction from previous years. many workers who cross the border don't venture past this area but look aleksy it's a stretch of land where no paperwork is needed for ethiopians to enter by. i work here and returned to ethiopia every evening whenever border tensions between our country and saddam flass we get affected when neighbors we consider ourselves

brothers so we hope issues between ethiopia and sit down as settled so we can live and work in peace. hundreds of kilometers away in the farms and his father's state the hope things work out for the better so their farms and many others like it in the state and continue to produce crops he will morgan al-jazeera on the sudan ethiopia border tens of thousands of elderly people in syria struggling to find the treatment they need for physical and mental illnesses after 10 years of war many a living out their final years incomes. of this report. they are ill you know this is how own hussein moves around her camp in northern syria her health is getting worse and walking is no longer an option. for years she thought she would one day go back to her hometown but that hope has now fading the war is just one of several tragedies she's had to endure her husband became death some of

their children have died others are scattered in different camps medicine is a luxury she can't afford. oh. i have nothing except my old age other people can walk and go anywhere they want but i can only crawl on my knees this is where some of the elderly go to get help a makeshift medical center set up in another camp for the displaced it's estimated that about 200000 elderly people in syria are homeless this is the only medical attention many will have access to. mobile homes and we mostly care for the elderly and many of them have long term illnesses like high blood pressure diabetes and heart problems for many things are worse because they're suffering from psychological hardships many of which stem from worrying about the future. the war has devastated entire communities more than 5000000 people fled syria during the fighting about another 6000000 are still displaced within the country without

a home camps have become their only refuge and humanitarian aid their only lifeline maybe there were homeless and with failing health many here say their only hope is to try and live out whatever time they have left with dignity. this early on al-jazeera. still ahead here on al-jazeera with ice skates at the ready the netherlands keeps its fingers crossed for a once in a generation sporting event. the city take control of the premier league title race the best of the action is coming up in sports. performed weeks america in gold in protest every day all over the u.s. even as the country faces the continued threat of a deadly pandemic. and it morphed into

a movement calling for police reforms sometimes it was violent. but mostly it was peaceful we asked people to describe what america is now feeling i think people want change. and i think that by willing to do whatever it takes to get there on friday billions of people in america are expected to celebrate what's called june 13th and unofficial holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the united states this year in the wake of the nationwide protests there is a growing number of calls to make it an official federal holiday. as people see it as a great opportunity to take to the streets to continue to let their message be her .

but again the high street is in the netherlands are hoping to get a once in a generation chance to tackle the 11 cities tour it takes place on natural in the last time it was cold enough it was back in 1997 still that's reports the another problem this year. the cracking noise of natural ice is music to the ears of peter bakker it's been nearly a decade since dutch waters have been covered with such a layer of ice for 24 years peter has been waiting for the tour of all ice skating tourists a journey on skates between 11 cities which takes thousands of ice skaters 200 kilometers to cities in the north of the country. i like the extreme challenge of the tour but also want to enjoy the beautiful landscape skating through fields

and cities and a large audience cheering you on it's something you're for this is how peter imagines the 2 of because in reality all he has been doing is practicing because every skater selected by the committee has to be prepared to go at any time i have been doing is over there the best it begins in summer that's when i prepare equipment is ready and i make sure i'm always sharp and when to start freezing the ice skate fever is unstoppable you make sure you're ready to go 11 cities to or took place 15 times in the 20th century but this century meteorologist predicted dutch will be lucky if it happens a maximum of 3 times if at all due to global warming 11 said the store turned skaters into heroes and violation to gather something badly needed now during the lockdown but even before the magical 15 centimeters of thickness needed for the race was reached hopes already dashed not only global warming but now also called it is posing

a threat. organizers have announced that it will be too dangerous to hold such a large event attracting more than a 1000000 people a bit a message from many here but it has not tempered their skating fever i think it's a beautiful it feels like your life again and we haven't been alive for almost a year so it really feels like i can imagine everybody's out here feeling to say i did have a normal commission that i really missed this and it makes up for everything i work in a hospital and i've seen a lot but this makes me forget that it makes me feel happy we're going to enjoy this. so. these are busy days for the ice master who keeps checking the quality of the ice we are measuring about 99 and a half centimeters today. which is quite good but still not enough for us to get on the ice with our heavy material only a few more centimeters are needed for the 11 cities tour but looking at the weather

forecast there won't be enough ice again this winter that brings mixed feelings for peter was desperate to escape detour but can't bear the thought of the event getting the go ahead but then being cancelled due to the been there make steadfast and al-jazeera in so mere the netherlands oh no i was going to replay the else besides his serve the sport well there's definitely plenty going on in the sports was let's start with tennis when a great fight back and i know how it has just reached the quarterfinals of the australian open coming from a set down to beat french open champion sciatic how that will be facing serina williams who had to work hard though up against arena and went to 3 sets and lasted 2 hours 9 minutes bouts eventually it was 7 time champion williams who claimed the win serena is chasing a record equalling 24th grand slam but hasn't won since 2017 now she's on to track to meet though mia soccer in the semifinals but soccer came very close to being

knocked out the japanese player had to save 2 match points against god binyam will go to 3rd she then won 4 straight games to take the win or soccer one they're straining open back in 2019 and now she's into the last it's. now next up for soccer she'll be up against chinese taipei posts to way shade a 34 year old made it through to her 1st quarter finals that will straighten open with her win over marchesa wonder if over under soccer's excited she says to face her. she is one of those players from new fields of video game i would want to select her character just to clear because my mind can't fathom like the choices she makes when she's on the court but it's so fun to watch it's not fun to play but it's really fun to watch the men's 3rd seed dominic team has been knocked out by a group called dimitrov in straight sets perhaps feeling the effects of his epic 5 set match against nick kiryas in the previous round. and also more covert 19 issues

this time in sailing as the america's cup challenger series final has been postponed because all current has been put into a higher level of lockdown the announcement was made after sunday's races which saw the italian team luna rossa take a commanding all know lead over to team in your suitcase and yes very nearly capsized at one point and they'll need to improve rapidly rina roster just needs 3 more wins to make it into the main america's cup against new zealand in march wednesday's races have been counseled by the lockdown is only set to last 3 days which means they could very well be back on the water as early as friday in his criticism of taking control of the 2nd test against england in chennai after making 329 in their innings they ripped through and was batting line up open a rule re burns was the 1st to go for a dark and they collapsed after that captain joe root could only manage 6 and england were all out $430.00 for their $242.00 runs behind india who seem to be

benefiting from fans being let into watching this much. now there are no messi scored twice as barcelona extended their winning run in the spanish league they comfortably beat out of those $51.00 to claim the 7th straight win in the league or messi was also making his 505th of pierrots wasa loner which ties the record held by jarvey when most barcelona up to 2nd in the league are but still 8 points behind our let's say let's go madrid. amongst the city of strength in their group on top spots in the premier league the top number 3 male to move 7 points clear that's now 15 wins in a row in all competitions for the city and leicester moved up to 2nd with a 31 win over liverpool of now lost really games in a row and their manager you're going caught now admits they have no chance of defending their title.

yet. i can't believe that your. situation is not easy to get cleared but which i will secure hold of is your view as you do a shooter sold you say that you wouldn't be well those also a big upset and it's one in the group leaders ac milan beats and 2 know by speedier who are down in 14th milan still remain top of the table but their rivals into man will overtake them if they win their game in hand into play lousier later on on sunday. i'm moving on to go from jordan space is closing in on his 1st p.g.a. tour win since 2017 american has a 2 shot lead heading into the final day of the pebble beach pro am in california this is the highlight of his 3rd round holding out for an eagle at the 16 holy ghost speech showing some of the form that has helped him win 3 major championships . i like the anxiousness and the nerves that come with this and that's why that's

why i love the game and you know like i said i control my own destiny tomorrow you know in golf you know the ball's in your hands so you get to win or lose it and you get to be the one that has the last shot well the utah jazz are on a hot streak in the n.b.a. rather right now they beat the miami heat in their latest game showing some great processing skills when they finished off by rudy go but the giants have now won 7 in a row and 6 home of the western conference and wells made it 2 wins from 2 in rugby 6 nations off to find sing from behind to beat scotland scotland needing a hard time at their home stadium but then how to play a sent off you know is 3 summits scored 2 tries for wales who won the match by one point. and the reigning champions england's recruit to thrash it's me joining my school to take to the try this with a spectacular leap into the corner in about 6 tries altogether to secure the bonus

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on a just. the latest news as it breaks human rights groups are questioning why people are taken to this isolation senators and the treatment they receive once their they're with detailed coverage beyond groups now control the villages that we can see on the other side of the river people who live on this side where they can hear gunfire where nephi thing from around the world months after that i'll volcano eruption they say their harvest right now back to normal. it's america's worst kept secrets 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

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