zira. taylor this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london coming up. as security crackdown in myanmar intensifies the internet is shut down and a curfew imposed following another day of dissent. hope for millions around the world the oxford astra zeneca vaccine is cleared for global rollout through the w h o's kovacs scheme for us. and paul brennan at london's heathrow airport has

a policy of hotel quarantine comes into force. and outrage in india after a climate activist is arrested for editing and sharing a social media guide in support of protesting farmers jevon asked with the support of barcelona remains hopeful that lean on that seat will stay at the club and 20 time grand slam champion rafael nadal reaches the australian open quarter finals. as minimal as military intensifies its crackdown on protesters against the february 1st through the un special envoy has told the army the world is watching a curfew is now in place there as well as a near total internet shut down for the 2nd consecutive night a monday there were reports that soldiers opened fire with rubber bullets on

demonstrators in mandalay 2nd largest city and tanks have appeared on streets across the country the army has warned for testers they could face up to 20 years in jail if they obstruct soldiers or incite what they call hatred or contempt towards coup leaders and deposed leader and son sushi is to spend a further 2 days under house arrest to view the foreign reports from hong kong. if she were forced to. break up a protest outside a state bank in the city of mandalay around a 1000 people at a peaceful rally were dispersed with rubber bullets and sling shots more than 10 truckloads of security forces and police were deployed to the scene where demonstrators were calling for me and mars' military leaders to reinstate their elected government extra troops were also sent to other parts of the country ilian mars' largest city and gone soldiers in armored vehicles and tanks patrolled the streets. one group of the civil disobedience movement c.d.n.

for short student front of the central bank in the and gone and continued with their calls for the military government to step down and the country's democratically elected leaders to be released. we are protesting peacefully without weapons and with no intention of violence to call for cd and fight for the freedom of government staff this as the military issued a statement on its facebook page outlining the possible punishment for protesters saying any acts token or written that expresses our insides hatred of the government could lead to 20 years in prison people gathered outside a court in the capital neighbor's door hoping that the deposed civilian leader aung san suu kyi would be released on monday but that did not happen. the other unit according to the remand which was set today is the last day of the remand period but from the discussions with the district justice to remand period is now until the 17th not today. she was one of the 1st to be detained in the early hours of the

coup 2 weeks ago she's been charged with illegally importing 6 walkie-talkie radios according to a monitoring group more than $400.00 people have now been detained since the february 1st clue there's a vast range of people within that group and that's a real concern for 23 year old fortune teller charlotte a fellow yangon fortune teller was arrested a few days ago after a video of him praying for the military to fail went viral and national that was it says there dictators they can make up whatever laws they like to oppress us we astrologers are like birds in their hands it is squeeze we are dead if they let us fly be a free this is the nature of dictatorship and it's not just happening to us it's everyone. and not probably why protesters are still coming out and frank the ruling national league for democracy and the party won by a landslide in last november's election and most popular most see this move by the

military as nullification of their vote and their voice their ego pollen are jazeera. renee's a visiting scholar at queen mary university of london's international state crime initiative is also the author of a book on in laws genocide and joins us now from london thanks very much indeed for being with us how serious would you say this escalation is in man with these reports for instance of a protest is being shot at well it's a significant escalation it's a sign that the military is threatened by the protests and by the protesters i think the military is probably surprised at the insurance of the protesters that the military is expectation was that as with previous coups in myanmar they could arrest they civilian leadership of the country and that then that would be difficulties organizing opposition to the coup this is different the protesters have a diversified leadership much more difficult to take out just by arresting even

i mean they've arrested $400.00 but the protests are still getting organized i think the military are concerned that these protests could continue in the long term and that's why we've seen such draconian changes to the goal so draconian for instance in such a threat of 20 years in jail for protesting in welly any of these elements do you think put the protesters or. i wouldn't think so i mean telling the protesters that they risk 20 years in jail for calling a coup a coup is not something that the protestors i think are going to accept that they've made their decision to protest the coup and they know what the military is like in me and not many people to me america seen the military i mean 60 years of military dictatorship in that country is the lived experience of many people in me and my they don't want to go back to that but they know what the military is like and this is what they expect the military to do so protesters have made the

decision before they turn out on the streets to put their bodies on the line and to put their liberty on the line this for them i think is a fight for their country's future and for freedom and they're not going to give up easily and you know you mentioned that there's a kind of diverse leadership now it has not just about people like our own son says she but she her house arrest has been extended for another couple of days what do you expect to happen you think she'll be kept and beyond that i think she'll be released what do you expect or no i think should be kept in beyond that i mean the military does not want to allow her to be free to galvanize opposition to their rule i think they will simply find a way of keeping her in jail mean it's ludicrous to to arrest the democratically elected leadership of the country on on i mean simply causes a claiming claiming you know importation of walkie talkies i mean they'll make up what they need to make up to keep on sensitive she in jail and they'll change the law if need be they've done it already they've done it in the past so i think that

can't risk letting her to galvanize the protesters but they do have a problem in these protesters have learned from neighboring countries like thailand there's a youth element in the protests that also learned from protests in hong kong they know what to do they're well organized and i think we can expect these protests and the civil disobedience movement to continue as either side to think at a point prepared to negotiate on a on a different outcome. well. at this moment no i mean the military believes that that coup will be successful so they're not minded to negotiate that the protesters want the military simply out of politics they want them that want them out of politics permanently and they won't be minded to negotiate much on that either what might happen as we move forward is that the military might be forced into a position where they they realize that their future their future in terms of any

influence in politics an a.t.v. fluence on the economy the generals have significant interests in business and they would not want to lose that entirely and if it looks like the coup is likely to fail then i think that's when you'll see the military be prepared to negotiate but they'll try and negotiate with them since it shape because they'll feel that they might be able to get a better deal as all of her administration than they would get out of the protesters the protesters want the military gone for good doctrinally thank you very much indeed for your analysis appreciate your time thank you pleasure now several people have been injured in a series of explosions in the northern iraqi city of beer 3 blasts will head with smoke seen at the perimeter of the airport where u.s. forces are based kurdistan regional government says a full investigation has been a watched there's been no claim of responsibility. still to come on the news our

techie summons the u.s. ambassador to encourage counter queues in washington of supporting kurdish fighters . taking charge of the world trade organization because 1st female african director general push through reforms. and liverpool's manager says he doesn't need a break despite troubles on and off the pitch that's coming up with. the world health organization has given emergency use approval to 2 versions of the oxford astra zeneca coded 19 vaccine the decision will allow some of the world's poorest countries to start any noise in their populations against the virus the vaccines were distributed through an equitable access program known as kovacs the 2 versions are produced by astra zeneca s.k. bio in south korea and the serum institute of india. is it

heads at university college london global citizenship program on outbreaks of infectious diseases she joins us now by skype from london thank you very much indeed for being with us i want to ask you 1st of all what approval means i mean as opposed to individual countries approval of vaccines. good evening and a pleasure to be on with you this time but this is actually a really important next step in vaccinating the world the devolution emergency authorization essentially allows for low and middle income countries to be able to authorize within their own nations relying on the show process around quality safety checks also looking at analysis of the supply chain really pulls that trigger on allowing those vaccines to be shipped to news countries because so far we know that 75 percent of all vaccines have been administered in just 10 countries

in the world and kovacs is the arm of the show that is working specifically on vaccine equity financing the astra zeneca vaccine to reach the majority of low and middle income countries which through donations alone at an individual level would have been extremely difficult without the job you show emergency authorization so because that process is so much lengthier when it's john just through the national regulatory body that often in low and middle income countries has less regulatory capacity this sort of launches the next that the next step allowing for the 1st shipments and processes to really get rolling because again they're very very far behind when it comes to vaccinating their populations is there a timeline at the moment on how quickly the doses community actually get to be administered. well through kovacs there has been already an agreement for the 1st

half of 2021 to get a significant amount of vaccines available and this is however of course under pressure due to the fact that many high income countries have not only purchased enough vaccines for their own population but for instance in the u.k. it's even 5 times over there is a at least. some thinking about the excess of accidents will be donated but again that timeline would then get shipped it but given this the timing of this particular authorization and it was just as those 2200000000 doses in total that have a reserve it looks like in the 1st half to 2021 there will be a significant proportion of people who will now be able to receive that vaccine and so again this is really welcome for all those countries to me that have been some concern in south africa after recent data that showed that it appeared to be less if the estrogenic a vaccine appeared to be less effective against the south african variant was that something that the show has been reassured about and as discounted as

a problem. we should have come out with strong support for the asters i think oxer vaccine after conducting its own review and very recently came to the conclusion that although yes there is reduced if it is see in miles and moderate case it is that they have extrapolated and believe that it is still effective for severe cases that could lead to hospitalized patients and death therefore it is still a very useful tool in the fight against corona virus because it saves lives and that is fundamentally one of the most important things of the vaccination efforts so we should haas come out to say through their own independent analysis of the small trial again only 2000 people participated in that trial that 1st highlighted this issue with effect to see but all equally one other concern that is currently being evaluate by the deputy is the risk really infection and this is something

that could be possible not just with the astra zeneca vaccine but with others as well so this is one area that. the scientists are are concerned about in understanding the behavior variance and one that's not very well understood yet but in terms of proceeding with administer and ministering in financing of the astra zeneca vaccine the ija has offered its full support of 7 percent thank you very much indeed for talking to thank you. headline passengers who arrived in the u.k. from a group of high risk countries and settling into their 1st night of hotel quarantine the government says it will help prevent the spread of highly contagious virus variants of the policy is attracting criticism for the way it's been organized paul brennan reports from london's heathrow airport. this was the 1st group of quarantine travelers being escorted from london's heathrow terminal 5 under way into isolation ahead of them 10 days in the 11 nights of enforced hotel quarantine

a prospect now facing all arrivals who have passed through one of the 33 countries on the u.k. government's red list in aviation terms the u.k.'s hotel quarantine plan has been on final approach to nearly 3 weeks now the policy was 1st announced in mid january but london's heathrow airport has expressed concerns about what it said were significant gaps in the implementation plan and the union representing some of the security staff is equally concerned about the transfer process from airport to hotel what does that quite well b.p. is going to be a writer for very well. what are. they going on once they get the high how now you have to bear in mind the problem is that not incur. the u.k. government says it's hotel quarantine plan amounted decisive action against curve it 19 but even as the 1st arriving passengers go into and for confinement there is

strong criticism of the weight of policy is being operated under enforced. inbound passengers need to show a negative test just to board the aircraft and pre-book to further tests for the days after arrival lying on a passenger locator form now carries a 10 year prison sentence but doubts persist australian states introduced hotel koren seen in march 2020 and have learned tough lessons since then procedures on meal delivery times ventilation staff testing and protective masks have all evolved significantly yet the state of victoria is now back under lockdown after an outbreak of the virus spread within this quarantine hotel australian infection experts say the u.k. needs to be ultra cautious i'm nervous about what i know about the cases it's good to know that smokers will not be allowed to leave their rooms but there's still about to leave the room we learnt very much the hard way that that does work

scotland's devolved government has introduced a policy that all travellers must now go through hotel quarantine regardless of where they've come from london government is sticking to its red list criteria saying the policies are based on best practice but not everyone agrees paul brennan al-jazeera heathrow airport news it is largest city is back in a 3 day lockdown after 3 members of one family tested positive for cave in 19 the government says it's taking a cautious approach as authorities investigate the source of the outbreak in oakland schools and nor essential businesses have been closed is eland gone 6 months without community transmission of the virus but it comes as the country received its 1st backshift train virus vaccines $60000.00 doses of the pfizer biotech jab will be offered to border and quarantine workers from saturday is in and is also signed agreements with other drug companies including astra zeneca to

buy millions more davis'. lebanon's vaccination program is underway bringing with it a sense of hope for a country with its fair share of crises but with high rates of vaccine hesitancy and lingering uncertainty over the supply from migrants it's thought immunization could take a long time as you know how to reports from beirut. and you know it's a start to end the coronavirus pandemic but the battle is far from over the elderly and health care workers have been on the front lines of this fight are the 1st in line to get the vaccine lebannon has seen some of the region's highest cases and deaths and now in january almost everybody every person has a family member or relative what a friend because a court of public might put of a quote covered both of them can know i'm secure from god but we feel it now and i would hope but not everyone is convinced about the vaccines the public is showing hesitancy so far 500000 lebanese have signed up that's less than 10 percent of the

population. and i won't take now because there are still a lot of question marks i will wait and see. the lack of trust is also because of what many regard a corrupt system. and more of course i won't take it the fact the government is giving it to us for free means there will be a price to pay later it seems the international community has little faith as well the world bank which is financing lebanon's purchase of vaccines will be monitoring the program to ensure a fair and transparent distribution the world bank didn't mince its words saying there will be no wasta that's arabic meaning you won't be able to use your connections to skip the line it's a common practice in lebanon where politicians have long been accused of favoritism . they're also blamed for failing to secure enough doses to inoculate 80 percent of the population by a year and the state is nearly bankrupt you can probably invite thing the public or

the philanthropic sectors of the public to but it's to be to ensure the 40 of the the 40 percent more needed but that presumes the private sector secures vaccines in a competitive market the government is also trying to get funds to vaccinate the hundreds of thousands of migrant workers lebanon is home to more than a 1000000 and a half syrian and palestinian refugees. on an off lock downs have led to economic devastation and death experts warn a patchwork response in the vaccination campaign as well would keep lebanon stuck in tragedy senator osha zita beirut. there are approximately 26000000 refugees in

the world and with a pandemic hitting the most vulnerable the un's refugee agency is calling on countries to include them in national vaccination plans the key element is actually ensuring that when national vaccination plans are happening that refugees are not being excluded from those plans but they're included so that's been a very strong advocacy call that we've been making on national governments to really say look we understand that this is still a work in progress but as the plans are being rolled out we need to make sure that refugees are not excluded from those plans it's a life saving intervention so it's about ensuring that refugees also have you know their access to to their fundamental health rights and are protected on par with citizens and at the same time it's in the interest of the countries themselves to make sure that there is no one on their territory that is on it unprotected and exposed to the virus as we see the vaccination plans they are being implemented and designed by governments but at the same time we're also very aware that the majority of the world's refugee population 85 percent of the world's refugees are

hosted in low to middle income countries so they're facing huge barriers huge challenges and being able to also look after the health needs of their citizens and that's why we're also advocating for global an equitable access to vaccines and that has to happen i mean these countries these refugee host countries have been so generously supporting refugees despite the challenges they face and now we're dealing at the this critical juncture with this unprecedented health emergency they need support so we need to ensure that they can also have an equitable access to vaccines and that's where the international community has to step up so we're working with kovacs which is the solidity that aims to ensure that governments and manufacturers can can work together to ensure that those vaccines reach people and greatest need but there definitely needs to be more support and solidarity to ensure that access. the 2nd round of vaccinations has begun in mexico as capital health officials are aiming to inoculate 15000000 elderly people within 2 months

they'll be given doses of the astra zeneca job which has been produced in india so far health workers are on the relatively few people to be vaccinated. joins us live now from mexico city it's the 1st day of creation failed really goes a sense of what it's like there. one day marks the 1st day of phase 2 of mexico's national inoculation program and i'll bring you with me to bring you into the scene of what we've been seeing throughout the course of today under the people queuing up waiting for about anywhere between an hour and 45 hours for that or for that or not feel ations here of the astra zeneca vaccine in this state in a small municipality called in the outskirts of mexico city now over the weekend a shipment of around 870000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine arrived in mexico from a production facility in india along with an another 494000 doses of the pfizer vaccine

now the goal of the 2nd phase of the vaccination program is to inoculate around 15700000 elderly mexican citizens within the next 2 months so have everyone in ocular aided by this time made april and as as well as providing the 2nd doses to frontline health care workers now there's been this mass mobilization by the mexican military since the weekend to deliver vaccine doses to all 32 mexican states and there have been about 333 different municipalities of. government being a high priority these communities impoverished indigenous communities that will receive a higher priority of the vaccine of the vaccine doses now this is drawing part of quite a bit of criticism from health policy experts because on one hand you have the mexican president saying that everyone in the country all 126000000 residents of mexico will have an equal shot of getting the pope in 1000 vaccine for free now what we're

hearing from health care experts is that the vaccines should be administered where transmission of the virus is high is densely populated cities and not rural communities like me where we are right now which actually are arguably has one of the lower. rates of transmission of covert 19 in around the city but in any event these latest shipments of both the astra zeneca vaccine. the pfizer vaccine in the forthcoming shipments of the russian sputnik v. and the chinese can see no vaccine are expected to once again reignite this this vaccination program to to speed up what's been a very long delay in mexico's rollout of its national vaccination program under a plan to thank you very much indeed. this is the news out of london still ahead. why south africa's former president could face time in jail. argentina's beef industry feels the heat why the pandemic is being blamed for a drop in consumption. and the usa is going to go wins

a 6th title at the world ski championships that's coming up the german sports. now after about 2 weeks of deep freeze and ice and snow is about to be a change in many countries in northern europe it's coming in from the atlantic this time it wanted to be a bit more forceful and this frontal system will end up going quite a long way east into what is currently very cold weather so it will bring 1st of all freezing rain then stone it's 4 days lift temperatures are not going to be extremely high but in comparison with the last few days barely above freezing is good and london's 11 is positively mild but there is still cold in the eastern side of europe it won't be pushed out beyond eastern poland or through rumania even down

through greece at least by the end of tuesday and that's where the roughest weather is going to be still winter wise you're normally breeze developing through greece and turkey has already brought snow throughout greece is goes from north to south this is what we're looking at the moment now it's not unique it does happen in most winters this is quite a severe outbreak and it will i think prompt a storm development in the south is fairly nasty weather for both egypt the levant and turkey and of course east until he gets really covered in snow but it's wind and rain for an event and for northern egypt. welcome to draw from every one of us. even those working quietly behind the scenes. so you can relax and enjoy the perfect break in your journey.

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are going to one of the top stories here on entres are security forces in me and maher have opened fire on protesters in the city of mandalay it's part of a wider crackdown on the 10s of thousands of people who demonstrated against the military coup. several people have been injured in a series of explosions in the northern iraqi city of erbil 3 blasts were heard we've smoke seen at the perimeter of the airport where u.s. forces are based. the global effort to vaccinate people in less developed countries has received a huge boost the world health organization as approved use of the astra zeneca vaccine as part of the kovacs program. the world health organization has launched an ebola vaccine campaign in the city of bhutan both in eastern democratic republic of congo for cases of a bolo have been confirmed. since a resurgence of the virus was announced just one week ago the west african country

of guinea declared a new outbreak on sunday confirming 3 deaths and 7 cases 11300 people were killed in an outbreak between 20132016 mostly in guinea and neighboring sierra leone and liberia on friday 1200 doses of the bone a vaccine and coltrane equipment arrived in the city of bhutan both health care workers will be inoculated 1st or last month for global vaccine alliance said it's creating a stockpile of half a 1000000 doses of the merck about a job within 2 years but as of january it only had about 7000 available nicholas hack has the latest now from senegalese capital dhaka. is back here the virus is spreading to the capital. city. i feel really surprised given the current situation in guinea weekend names are struggling with the 19th pandemic and now with the polar it will be

a real disaster the country's learned borders are sealed an emergency team made up of the world health organization doctors without borders and government health workers were dispatched to the region of corey after a nurse died of the virus in late january. in fact and we need our. think in. terms. of several people attending the infected nurses funeral contracted the virus some have since died with more than $200.00 close contacts health authorities fear many more could be unknowingly carrying a bullet the virus spreads easily through bodily fluids it triggers fever vomiting and diarrhea and eventually causing organ failure and death. people are nervous the governor of korea is calling for calm in 2013 an outbreak detected in the same

region spread to neighboring countries infecting over 20000 people half of them died from the virus blood samples of infected patients have been sent for testing at the institute in neighboring senegal inside this building our researchers sequencing a sample of the virus the idea here is to try to understand which strain of the bulla we're dealing with in the current outbreak in guinea and whether the newly developed vaccine will successfully contain this new epidemic. there are currently 7000 doses of the vaccine available globally none of them are in west africa the vaccines need to be stored at minus 80 degrees celsius and transported to guinea's remote and tropical region where power is in short supply for health authorities it is for now a race against time to trace and isolate contact cases before it's too late nicholas hawk al-jazeera the car takis president has accused the us of supporting

kurdish fighters who he says are behind the execution of 13 turkish hostages the bodies of the group were found last week in a cave in northern iraq so then go see who has more from istanbul or the wall to bury the 13 trickiest police and military personnel have been discovered in a cave in northern iraq on sunday turkey says they had been abducted and executed by fighters on the kurdistan workers party or p k k during a combat operation. but turkey's anger for the killings wasn't just directed at the output group and it says no to syria now there is a statement made by the united states it's a joke would you not supposed to stand against the terrorist the p.k. k. the y p g in the p why do you clearly support them and stand behind the picket k.

is listed as a terrorist organization not only by turkey but the u.s. and the e.u. the u.s. condemned the killings if responsibility lay with the p.k. . if we work together with you in nature and if we are to continue our unity in the world and nato the new will act sincerely towards us then you will stand with us not with the terrorists. unclear it was over the angered by washington support of kurdish fighters in neighboring syria turkey claims the group known as wife the chief is organically tied to the p.k. and the name difference is just a branding effort to legitimize the organization in the fight against feisal. was infuriated by washington statement on the iraq killings to accuse some of the us ambassador to uncorrupt and later to accuse foreign minister spoke for the 1st time with his new us counterpart antony blinken according to readouts blinken is

said to have affirmed that p.k. k. was to blame and that to emphasize the importance of thereby literally relationship and interests in countering terrorism but the differences between longstanding belise remain as a nato ally angara wants washington to pick a side either turkey or the p.k. k. and the syrian based wipe e.g. but in january incoming us secretary of state under in a blink an echo is turkey off not acting like an ally because of his purchase of a russian air defense system and said the us would reveal if further sanctions are required unless one side compromises the dispute between nato is to biggest army is made out and soon to an abcess all al-jazeera stumble. hoofy rebels in yemen claim they've attacked the airports in the saudi cities of arpa and jeddah with drones on the ground in yemen itself violence is increasing with hundreds of people killed in

mara province fighting broke out there more than a week ago but there are conflicting reports about the situation now who thiis say they have seized control of a minute she can and are attacking a number of army positions but the army says it's repelled their attacks after launching artillery strikes. at least 60 people have died after an overcrowded boat capsized in western democratic republic of congo the vessel capsized in the congo river near a province on sunday night the country's humanitarian affairs minister says 240 people are still missing but it was heading to a province after departing from the capital kinshasa. south africa's former president could be jailed after he defied in order to attend an inquiry into alleged corruption during his time in office the commission plans to ask the constitutional court for an order that jacob zuma is guilty of contempt of court

for the so-called state capture inquiry which has been running for 2 years is investigating allegations zuma allowed the wealthy group to family to plunder state resources and influence policy zuma denies any wrongdoing senator miller is in johannesburg with this report. and in the greatest significance of what's happened today is just how it reflects on the african national congress the governing party in south africa and how it views what the former president has done we do know that the top 6 leadership of the a.n.c. had planned to see the former president to compel him to appear at the commission but this really is symbolic of the divisions within that party and its fight against corruption if the former president says their t.'s rights are being impeded on that he's been vilified that this is propaganda and there's a political agenda there are also many people who sympathize with him and said that he does want to appear at the commission with swelling with his rights at the same

time he's not here to a summons which was issued by the commission and also previously the constitutional court had said he should appear at the commission and not doing that was undermining the law so we would have to wait to see what the constitutional court says next to to see whether or not zuma does continues to defy the commission as the commissioners under had said he's doing or if he maintains it is right not to appear the red cross is warning that the humanitarian crisis in northern mozambique is getting worse all than half a 1000000 people have been displaced by fighting in cover delgado province asaram attacks are reports letting disease spread. aid workers say health facilities are being deliberately targeted in carver delgado and they can't access huge parts of the province people fleeing the violence in northern mozambique can sometimes only get help when they reach clinics set up in camps for the internally displaced. in

their province is 845539 over there they are more orthodox or not because they have been of on the largest or the ever been burned or they have been just to destroy most and because government says fighters affiliated to eisele operating in parts of kabul delgado the militant group stage is 1st attack in 2017 since then the attacks have been bigger in scale and frequency taking on the army and the time seizing entire towns health workers say the humanitarian crisis is getting worse from proton the government just the number of cases has gone up there are many diseases like malaria missing displaced people from way into a commune district practically the entire northern area. more than half a 1000000 people have fled their homes many of them are now in pemba the provincial capital they complain about overcrowding manju tradition and the constant threat of

covert 19. leaving as a displaced person. moving from one place to another there are many difficulties a problem with staring over finding food to eat at least a year and getting treated for illness i am now feeling better. southern african countries portugal and others in the european union have offered to help fight the armed groups but there's been no official word from the mostly be government on the way forward. algis or. goes into a conduit well or has received unanimous backing to become the 1st woman and 1st african director general of the world trade organization 3 months after the trumpet ministration ridge. acted her appointment of country we grew up during the nigerian biafran war before studying development economics at harvard university as nigerian finance minister she have to persuade rich countries to write off much of nigeria's debt she turned to 25 year veteran of the world bank where she oversaw an

$81000000000.00 portfolio focused on developing economies it were ran against 7 other candidates but the message that trade could be used to lift people out of poverty a 1st priority is will be trying to settle the u.s. china trade war and counter protectionism encouraged by the coronavirus pandemic today w.t.r. members are making history for the 1st time in the 73 years of. us electing a woman and an african as director general this is groundbreaking i am positive. i am grateful for that trust you have in me not just as a woman and i am african but also my knowledge experience and as some of you have said courage and passion to work with you so i undertake the wide ranging reforms that your needs so it was shown itself for the future demonstrations in india

calling for the release of a young activist who was detained over a protest guide with r.t. said he helped to develop a toolkit used to spread awareness of ongoing protests by farmers it was shared online by the swedish environmental activist but a 2 legged who's voiced her support for the farmers they've been demonstrating against government reforms of the agricultural sector for months was both corundum is in new delhi and says the rest has been condemned. ravi broke down in court she said she just wants to support the protesting farmers that she edited 2 lines of this document nonetheless she is in police custody for 5 days until her next hearing police have also taken action the issue warrants for the arrests of 2 other climate activists including the lawyer by the name off mic at the jacob they say that she was also working on behalf of the 6 2nd separatist group to organize what they call the tweet storm on twitter head of protests on india's for public day on

january 26th when they want were violent clashes between some protesting farmers and the police there has been a lot of condemnation of this police action against the show robbi by many people here including go in opposition politicians delhi's chief minister that's the leader of the region has said that the rest of the 21 year old arrest of 21 year old the show ravi is an unprecedented attack on democracy that supporting our farmers is not a crime another prominent opposition politician p. chidambaram said india has become a theater of the absurd and that gives you an idea of the kinds of things that are being said about the police action taken against climate activists argentina is world renowned for its cattle that feed on the rich cross of its central region but records show that last year a large part of the population stopped purchasing meat and that's partly because of the economic impact of covert 19 to risible reports from one as ours.

green before ours is part of argentina's tradition well wolf is proud of what his family has achieved there are experts in preparing the traditional or barbecue the greening method used by the skilled horse men who roamed argentina the region in the 18th and 19th centuries. we are proud to say this is a restaurant that feeds everyone all social causes those who have money and those who don't. but things have changed it's becoming more and more expensive those who come have less money the pandemic has forced restaurants like this $1.00 to adapt it's working at 30 percent of its capacity what complicates the situation even more is that beef is becoming more expensive in a country where people are used to eating meat nearly every day latest reports show that beef consumption has dropped to an all time low or about 50 kilos a person

a year half the amount consumed in the 1950 s. one of the recent is a changing eating abbots but there is more beef played a crucial role in argentina culture this type of father was i part of people's day and life but in the past year the price of beef have increased around 70 percent because of inflation and increased exports and that's why the government is putting together a plan that aims to review the price of certain. due to rising prices cows were taken last year to graceland instead of being fattened with corn they slow down beef production and reduce the supply experts in the area fear government intervention to control the prices. back in 2008 government restrictions to prevent a rise in prices ended with a loss of a around 20 percent of argentina's cattle herd. i think it's a political action trying to reduce the price of beef we export only 3 percent of

what we consume if the government tries to act on the effect and not on the causes which is the rise in prices of almost everything in the country i am already he said he was forced to adapt her shop and sell other products she says the increase in the price of beef makes it difficult for her business to thrive in hobart and of course in the most minute we've had a 40 percent decrease in the sales of beef mostly because of price not everyone can pay for beef people were used to easy at all the time but that's not the case now by selling chicken and other projects so that we can get our sales up. beef consumption is a reflection of argentina's economy and that's one of the reasons why the government wants to guarantee people have access to it. but failed policies of the past me end up hurting the sector that has made argentinean beef famous worldwide that is a war of deceit when

a society is an update now on that story we're following in the northern iraqi city of erbil where at least one person has been killed in a series of explosions several others injured 3 blasts were heard with smoke seen at the perimeter of the airport where u.s. forces are based the international coalition fighting isis says indirect fire killed a local contractor the kurdistan regional government says a full investigation has been launched. still to come when i was there a. huge crash on the final lot on to 500 miles of racing action from the daytona 500 coming up in schools.

sport now has gemma thank you lauren 20 time a grandson champion a rafa nadal has bucked his place at the australian if'n quarter finals also i throw as women's number one ash fasi janica wraps up the action from day 8 in melbourne. it's been 12 years since rafael nadal last won the title at melbourne park but the spaniard is getting close again in 2021 he was rarely troubled by fabby a funny and what turned out to be a routine straight sets win. dow sets up a quarter final meeting with steph tunnel says a pass he was handed a walkover win after his opponent withdrew. but world number 2 knew dow is happy he got some time out on the court i was not able to practice the proper way for the last 19 days but yesterday i started again to

increase the amount of work on the practice and today have been opposed to victory with. some long pines so that helps for for the next match. russia's daniel medvedev stretched his winning streak to 18 matches with a straight sets win over mckenzie mcdonald the 4th seed set up an all russian quarter final against andre grouplove with whom he won the a.t.p. cup just 2 weeks ago. which means number one in top seed ash barty moved into the quarterfinals for a 3rd straight year after dismissing shelby rogers in straight sets the 24 year old to still in course to become the 1st australian woman to win this grand slam since 1978. 0 we're not done yet. it's exciting to be in the quarter final of a grand slam particularly here in australia and just i mean if we'd looked at the way they were preparing during our pre-season to have the start that that we've had

so far is really encouraging but certainly certainly not satisfied with we were out of the man who keep chipping away and keep trying to do the right things to progress as far as we can. but 5th seed elina spittal ina crashed out the ukrainian had dropped a set in melbourne this year until she met the world number 61 jessica who led the american reaching her 1st grand slam quarter final. question of play can patrick jennifer brady. join against roscoe al-jazeera. serena williams places maina however in the quarter finals on cheese day chasing that elusive 24th grand slam which would equal the record held by margaret court syria has not want to slam a since 2017 but her coach is relaxed about it does she need that i don't think she needs that edition. i think she but i mean clearly she came back to tennis to win some other grand slams so that's for sure the goal. no she's not.

obsessed with the 24 then most people who are in the tennis world but definitely she wants to win ransoms that's the only reason why she came back to tennis. as you've been hearing mexico has begun vaccinating they're out today but the president says athletes competing at the tokyo lympics will also be given a priority the international olympic committee wants as many participants vaccinated as possible possible before they arrive at the games in japan which due to start in july did the most. another purty group to vaccinate 1st is the athletes who are going to represent us at the olympic games we have to vaccinate all of them and if they do deuces are needed we have to do it now because it's getting closer to the games skia mckayla shifrin has set an american record by winning has 6 world championship gold medal this is championships are taking place and it's a day and on monday it's different when the women's outline

a combined title she can add that to her collection of 4 slalom goals and another in stupid. liverpool manager and club has hit back at rumors on social media which claim he needs a break from football aside to struggling for form in the premier league and it's been an even tougher time for club off the pitch after his mother passed away recently but she insists the fans don't need to be concerned about him i can split things i can switch off one thing is on the other thing and i don't carry things around. private are private if i'm in football place here of course we're influenced by things that have been wrong but nobody has warry about your whatever. wow side have dropped 2 places to sit in the table that's because chelsea of beating newcastle to nail at that one approaching full time that will see the move up to 4th and west ham of also going to have liverpool that one 5th after 3 no when the sheffield united all eyes will be on leno messi on tuesday

night from barcelona play a parasite a man in the last 16 of the champions league the french side have made no secret of the fact they want to sign boss a star man when his contract expires in the summer this hasn't gone down too well with ronald came in he remains optimistic that messi will still be playing for the spanish club next season. says she and she just i don't know if it was their intention to talk a lot about leo may see a lot of more consume my concern is to prepare my players will be important that we play tomorrow we may see as a boss learn to play and i have high hopes that he will continue being a boss alone a player just like messi is another player with plenty of tricks on the pitch iranian football or not in the hamady is known for his long throw ins and he's going viral again on social media for this acrobatic efforts he did a somersault of them pulled off a 55 meter throw and unfortunately though it was the only highlight of his team a pagan who lost one nil to cephalus very impressive all the same to cricket now

and india's batsmen of a huge lead against england in the 2nd test after bowling the visitors out cheaply on day 2 they racked up the runs to put themselves 481 and head kept in a very curly made 62 and ravi ashwin scored a century batting on a very tough pitch england are already 3 wickets down in their 2nd innings $429.00 runs behind 2 days left so it's looking like an indian victory which would level the 4 match series at $10.00. formula one driver fernando alonso has left hospital 4 days after being hit by a car all right in his bicycle the spanish 2 time world champion had surgery to treat a fractured jaw which he sustained in the accident which happened to his home in switzerland 39 year old alonso's set to make his f one comeback this season with the alpine team after 2 years out of the sport pre-season testing starts next month and there was some very late drama in one of motorsports most famous races at the

daytona 500 but the olympic gold delivered on the bottom of the road john. sold world let go of the. tile board. after 500 miles of racing there was a massive accident on the final lap of the race with several cars going up in flames thankfully there were no serious injuries and this group of mechanics they were cheering it was because that driver michael mcdowell in the yellow car managed to avoid the chaos and went on to cross the finish line 1st it's his 1st nascar cup series victory lucky escape for all of those drivers in that big pile up there was an. looks like it. and a quick reminder you can always catch up with the sport news recovering by checking out our website address for that is al-jazeera dot com and you can watch us live by to hear the orange line by call. a superman or in turn if there's

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a new commission to monitor sources of pollution across 5 known for the state's health experts and bob mentioned it's been wanting for months that the easing of the lockdown would lead to an increase in who should in that impact that would have on those because of the 19. the security crackdown in man maher intensifies the internet is shut down and a curfew imposed following another day of dissent. on the intake of his entourage here live from london also coming up hope for millions around the world the oxford astra zeneca vaccine is cleared for global rollout through the dubby 8 shows kovacs scheme class. and paul brennan atlanta.