is increasing i think that the european commission would be very very shameful is water privatization and anybody say anything. those people who see every 2 years something to invest a profit of a $1.00. to the last drop on al-jazeera. charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity to former politicians from central african republic deny the charges at the trial at the world's top. and on the clock this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up memo's military denies it carried out a coup but repeats its promise to hand over power after elections. vaccines on hold israel prevents 2000 doses of the threat of our shots being delivered to the gaza

strip. and winter storm sweeps through parts of the united states supreme record some 0 temperatures traffic headaches and leaving millions in the dark. to former leaders of a rebel group in central african republic have denied committing war crimes 7 years ago when the country descended into civil war the trial for alfred and parties in the guy sauna began at the international criminal court on tuesday they're accused of targeting muslims and a campaign of torture murder and rape often was whims elector rebels overthrew the government at the time they were allegedly lead is a very predominantly christian rebel group from its inception and i saw i was aware of the anti bloc as organizational policy. their policy entailed violent targeting of muslim civilians in western ca are based on their religious national or ethnic

affiliation were perceived as collectively responsible for complicit with and supportive of the stellar you will hear this referred to as the criminal policy or common purpose in our presentation that's not correspond to study but the hate for us to tell us more about the significance of this goes well this is the 1st time that the 2 main major suspects in the way for violence that happened in 20132014 in central african republic are actually on trial here it's a trial that will be closely watched also in the central african republic at the moment where violence is still happening we're talking about 2 leaders one is more like a military leader that's yet at them and none so now is seen as a very close confidant of former president bush these are who's also been held

accountable or been accused of being behind this violence and so now is seen as the man who has been financing this violence the prosecutor has outlined a very detailed description of how well organized the anti baloch a militia swore they were very systematically going from one muslim village to the art of attacking the muslim minority in a country and basically aiming to remove the muslim population from the country altogether there were some really startling details about how houses were marked make sure that the population of people who were living there could not return home so a modern a 1000000 people were displaced during this wave of violence were to many of the talk right now by the i.c.c. of also detained a 3rd militia member from the opposing side. yeah mohammed saeed has been brought here just

a few weeks ago actually before this trial was opening and he's from the seleka militia which is the muslim militia who actually took over power in 2013 and that's when the ante bellum was spinning this revenge attacks it is important that also one of the seleka militia leaders so are the alleged militia leader is here to show that this is a very balanced accountability for what's happening what happened in the country back then so it shows that both sides are actually will be on trial and also looking at the situation out in central african republic where defiance is still continuing it shows a very strong message that people will not remain impudent if they have been committing these atrocities these war crimes that they're now being charged with step thanks for that service in the hague. where the military has denied carrying out a coup and has pledged again to hold elections next year

a spokesman for the armed forces says they had no choice but to seize power moments later the law of the deposed leader and sense of so the military had filed additional charges against her. continuing their civil disobedience movement who protesters don't block train services out of instant railway station one of the city's large. east on the other end of the line of protesters there also. in his 1st press conference since taking over the military just to justify its actions saying it was not a coup and that the protesters are inciting violence. yet. he had a chance to solve problems like election peacefully according to the constitutional law but they didn't take action that's why we have no choice but to take power and this is not a code. we found out that the protesters are inciting the violence in the legally

pressuring civil servants the protesters have become violent rather than peaceful elsewhere in yangon protestors laid down to look like they were resting illustrating the point that tense nights are robbing them of sleep this overconcerned of night time patrols and arrests more than 400 people have been detained according to a monitoring group as a protest has ramped up pressure by strikes and rallies something else it might prompt a strong reaction from the military the government it's also. trying to demonstrate. tacitly that they may tolerate the street protests but if the protests try to occupy those buildings or prevent. a walk us from county to walk actions a day after police crackdown on protesters in the 2nd largest city injuring many they came back out in mandalay amid a low key security presence thousands marched on the streets. in yangon buddhist

monks joined the protest chanting against the coup and calling for the release of detained leaders some see their participation as bringing moral authority to the movement scott toddler al-jazeera. first president tomorrow mark owen has pledged to step up efforts to fight al-qaeda linked groups in the whole region chromo speaking by video link to the presidents of the g 5 nations universal mali mauritania and the chart and he called on international partners to provide long term financing for social forces by chromate that players france is considering its presence in the region. so clearly lit concluded the absolute priority of our military strategy is to continue our fight against terrorist groups this will be achieved with the strengthening of the joint force which has already made immense progress our intention now is to strengthen this 5 force with sustained funding. macron said that now was not the time to withdraw french troops as natasha

but reports from paris he said that the some 5000 or more troops that are actually posted in this i held region from france have had victory some significant victories over the past year and they are continuing to be needed by the g 5 forces to work alongside them and also to train so he said it simply won't be the time to abandon he said his african partners now him at all my call i did say that it was very important that the international community did more to support the g 5 forces both financially economically and with the logistical support he did call on for example european countries to do more on this level the german foreign minister i should say we did hear from him after the summit he said that generally would continue to support the g 5 forces logistically and with training but it wouldn't send any troops at this particular moment him at all right across only looking for

other european countries to provide troops to work alongside the french are there for now and of course the g 5 in the future. and from lagos ahmed idris has his updates on the reaction of the hells g 5 leaders to my current state the only concerns about a possible french withdrawal from the region has now disappeared however it's up to the regional countries or other countries of the south the g 5 to measure up in terms of troops addition to the fighting force however the only country so far that has met. one of his charge. but a hardened and they have the experience of dealing with situations like that have a for several civil wars and contributed in fighting other skirmishes or other violence in neighboring countries however countries like egypt mali and booking a fossil don't have the experience or the materiel like they all will need

financial support logistical support to help them deal with the current situation in the house the prime minister says a court ruling to end a nighttime curfew is disappointing the judge ruled authorities had illegally used the merchant supposed to impose the restrictions are more cruel to says the measures are necessary to reduce the number of covert 90 infractions he says the government will appeal against the decision and work on a new law the government's introduced the curfew last month sparking protests the palestinian authority says that israel has stopped 2000 coronavirus vaccines being delivered to the gaza strip the 1st places of the sputnik vaccine was supposed to be given out on tuesday more than 2000000 palestinians living in the gaza strip yet to receive any inoculations human rights groups have criticize israel for not providing vaccines to palestinians living under israeli occupation in the west bank and the besieged gaza strip higher forces more now from west jerusalem.

they say so far that the decision has yet to be made that's the official lot that's the line coming from officials it's a decision for the national security council's affectively one could say it's a decision for the prime minister benjamin netanyahu the p.a. as you say says that it made this shipment it was sent it out towards the west bank checkpoint and it was stopped by israeli security officials there was a debate in the israeli parliament the knesset on monday about this issue with right wing israeli members of the knesset arguing on a number of grounds that the vaccine should not be shipped to gaza or one argument made was that because hamas which controls the gaza strip is holding 2 israeli civilians who crossed into the strip in recent years and also the remains of 2 israeli soldiers that there should be no vaccines handed over until those remains

in those people are returned another and k. arguing that these vaccines would not go to health workers but speculated they would go to senior hamas officials now as far as members of the largely palestinian israeli joint list are concerned this is withholding essential health care from an occupied population and therefore a war crime it's worth remembering that inside gaza already it's estimated some 9 percent at least of the population have been infected with the virus at one point in december some 45 percent of tests were coming back positive now the numbers have been going down a bit since but gaza has an extremely overstretched and very rickety health system these vaccines are very much needed. still ahead here on al-jazeera a new camp for new arrivals in sudan why refugees are fleeing ethiopia and heading to blue nile state. or much sooner as. the bad rap for

a spanish musician his lyrics are not music to the ears and spain's monarchy and that is likely to land him in jail. it's time for the perfect gentleman the weather sponsored plan qatar airways. has a lot more snow to come for succulent the head of that storm system still bringing cold air out from the east of the continent across the water as a massive dump to come i think much of honshu less so in the korean peninsula probably kitsch hit but so looks like it could be in the freezing cold but sunny weather and that will slowly warm during service to the still snow to come but the cold is gradually being warmed by the sunshine shanghai's only now in taipei is at 14 most a child looks fine and sunny and not cold spell will disappeared 9 degrees on

friday is replaced by 13 in seoul on saturday so considerable warming in the next 2 or 3 days out in the something to watch in the philippine sea just east the southern islands this circulation may well develop into something say no more than half an hour we'll watch it go otherwise the rainy season is still showing itself mostly into the sea and mostly in java rather less so in sumatra and a lesser in peninsula malaysia i was we got a few showers bring in land in india the northern plain is still quiet and colder not back much disturbed which is not good news for delhi still stuck in the fog. sponsored paul qatar airways. a place upon our world social life where intellectuals artists and activists me where i can see is a spock and history has made. america has throughout the years kyra to have broken

al-jazeera world tells the story of 4 iconic cafes and their role in the arab society as objects of creativity and debate the 2nd secret so we are a country on a. poor poor . poor. but again you're watching al-jazeera reminder about top stories this hour and to forment leaders of a rebel group in central african republic if tonight committing war crimes trial for now for you to patrice at the water in kosovo has begun the international criminal court queues of targeting muslims in a campaign of torture murder and rape. we're miles military has denied carrying out

a coup and has pledged again to hold elections next year a spokesman for the armed forces says they had no choice but to seize power protest its military takeover and now in the 11th day. palestinian authority says israel has stopped 2000 corona virus vaccine is being delivered to the gaza strip 1st doses were supposed to be given out and choose day more than 2000000 palestinians living in the strip yet to receive any inoculations. the world health organization says much needed a boat vaccines are on their way to guinea the stockpile is being flown in from geneva and the united states the country is trying to track down anybody who had contact with those infected 5 people have died and 10 others have symptoms because he reports now from dhaka in senegal a bola is back here the virus is spreading to the capital. city.

i feel really surprised given the current situation gamey waking names are struggling with the 19 pandemic and now with the polar it will be a real disaster the country's land 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 ns eric corey after a nurse died of the virus in late january. in fact. are. thinking throughout. the. 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 bulla the virus spreads easily through bodily fluids and triggers fever vomiting and diarrhea 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 set 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 $7000.00 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. at least 75 people have died and hundreds are still missing and democrats or republicans can go after boat capsized it happened late on sunday on the congo river. the vessel was traveling from the couple can call it quits of profit. thousands of ethiopians from the. region have been forced to escape their homes and cross into sudan's blue nile state filings in recent months has resulted in a steady flow of refugees and aid agencies are worried about getting basic supplies to those who've left their homes with barely anything out deserves her morgan met some of those who've taken refuge near the sudan ethiopian border hundreds of refugees from banishing all in ethiopia have come to this camp near the border with sudan for refuge there fled fighting between ethnic groups in the medical zone

a mourner says she fled her home 3 months ago with her 4 youngest children as they were all she could carry and not a day goes by without her thinking of those she left behind for them. and how they came and attacked us the civilians him to our village at night and so is it killing us people running in all directions parents and children separated from each other after 2 of these ones into the bush the other side in opposite direction in the bush for 15 days as a reader would to hear. their camp has been set up as a temporary center for refugees arriving in this region and is one of 3 in sudan's blown out state that borders. but was is one of if he appears 9 regions and home to vast arable lands and the grand if you can run as on stem that's set to become africa's largest hydroelectric dam unlike most other regions in mexico the most of the largest ethnic group but the ones who fled here say they have been marginalized in their own lands by the arm horrors who moved in from the neighboring highland

region that's led to fighting at least 300 people have been killed in the region in recent weeks according to human rights commission both sides have accused the other of violence over the past few years. that a lot of the our problem is one of land does want to take our fertile lands because they don't have such lands for farming they found that our land is good so they are targeting i ask miss farmers to prevent us from farming we don't want to give them our land so they launch attacks on us because we're weak. since november authorities say more than 7000 people have arrived in the state this by being here for 3 months refugees they have very little aid has reached them they say most of the systems they've got so far are handouts from the local community and some refugees have opted to live with the host communities rather than in these makeshift camps authorities also say that more people are arriving every day and that they expect that to continue through the more you're as long as fighting

continues on the other side more refugees will come were no racing against time because an april it'll be the start of the rainy season where the refugees are already hard to reach and it will be near impossible by that time so we've identified a camp but it's not up yet we're hoping to set it up and move the refugees in on time so they can get aid easily. many refugees here say that regardless of how few essentials are available in this camp they want to stay for as long as possible and they're hoping family members they've left behind will join them he will morgan al-jazeera under saddam if you order. the iraqi president has condemned a series of rocket attacks in the northern city of erbil calling it a dangerous escalation 3 blasts were heard and smoke was seen near the airport where u.s. forces were stationed and iranian backed shia group claims to have targeted the military base on foreign contractors been killed several others were injured including a u.s. serviceman. u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi has announced plans to form an independent commission to

investigate last month's attack on capitol hill she says it will be modeled on the commission established after the $911.00 attacks and will report on the facts and causes of the violence on january the 6th in which 5 people died henry olsen is a senior fellow at the ethics and public policy center in washington d.c. he says the findings will be seen as credible because the commission won't be partisan. the important thing is the 911 model that ms speaker pelosi is proposing is that it is 5050 bipartisan controlled by neither party and it has had an extremely important former or current appointed or official has elected officials from both sides so it's something that gives a finding extreme credibility and i think purpose of this would be to go in and find what house managers in the impeachment trial either couldn't or wouldn't produce which is clear in the dems over how responsible president is for the riots that occurred in the us i think there's arguments on all sides of this for getting

to the truth about this republicans are on happy with trump would love to be able to find more evidence as senator bill fascinating one of the 7 republicans who voted for can think president said the more people find out the likelier republicans will be to be on my side democrats of course would like to find out this but the trump people also would like to find out what the truth is in part because it will also enable them to investigate what this house speaker who was in charge of capitol security did or did not do to protect them and their stabs from the possibility of a riot so there's a happy political convergence of interest over establishing this side's complaint something they want to look at a major winter storm is pummeled much of the united states abroad rests known to some southern states causing chaos in the region unused to freezing conditions and is on the reports now from new jersey. for much of the southern united states it

was a once in a generation winter storm. heavy snow fall and icy roads conjured up disastrous driving conditions across at least 20 states several of them declaring states of emergency in texas record low temperatures way below freezing brought the electricity grid to its knees at one point more than 2000000 customers there lost power many caught up in intentional outages designed to ease the strain on the system we have experienced probably 5 or 6 rolling blackouts at about 45 minutes and i know that there are some neighborhoods around here that have them up without power since about 4 am even southern texas more accustomed to hurricanes got a rare sight of snow this was the scene in bel-air a suburb of houston and in san antonio home to the alamo a famous historical site here's what it looked like there.

too far but you never think you see the day and so you got snow coming down like this according to the national weather service at least 150000000 americans are in the storm's path and unusually wide band of frigid air creeping slowly across the country other states bearing the brunt of it happened oklahoma where it's caused near white out conditions on the roads. and more carolina where freezing rain felled trees along highways further north in chicago there are more used to this kind of weather at this time of the year but even here they're bracing for more than 30 centimeters of snow by the time the storm passes through the new york city region has already seen its highest snowfall totals in years but the storm that's sweeping through the rest of the country is. now barreling north and

about to hit here leaving tens of millions of other americans in the northeast of the country bracing for the next one that also could include sleet and hail gabriels andro how do we hock in new jersey. to democracy activists in hong kong and plead guilty to organizing an illegal assembly in $2197.00 others denied the charges including media tycoon jimmy life and martin lee who's known as hong kong father of democracy trolls are related to a demonstration in august 2019 against beijing's influence running nearly 2000000 people critics say the challenge is a proof the government is rooting through fear what we remember fred may become of me right here become a problem or political for president when i got corporate run it is rare for quicker. from the rule of law or grown and grown rule by fear. dozens of

spanish police have stormed the university and have arrested a rap artist who barricaded himself inside to avoid prison cell was sentenced to 9 months in jail for insulting the monarchy and glorifying so-called terrorism he wants to lure under which he was convicted to be scrubbed the local sleuth has this report. this is the moment placed on the catalan university of lagos to arrest pablo hustle the rap artist had barricaded himself into a white arrest after being sentenced to 9 months in prison proper criticizing spain's royal family in songs and tweets. as he was led away even named to find out i don't know the they will never make us give in despite the repression was the right word. us this case is inspired support across the country last week thousands of demonstrators rallied in madrid demanding his freedom. first of all i

think it's all right. well for us your opinion either rappin either saying in either dance you need or doing whatever you want one child support with this street taught from spain's former king kong carlos in raising her son's image the more. it can be that an artist is jailed for expressing his ideas i believe that something that is profoundly unfair more than $200.00 artists actors and fund that actors have also signed a petition against his jailing. we. the government to reform what's known as the gag law that was intended to prevent the glorification of terrorists and many people have done. these verbal excesses that some may have and which are part of a framework of cultural expressions must according to this government be kept away from any legal sanction. amnesty international says 70 people were

convicted under the law in 20182019. see. the otto says he uses a draft as a tool for transformation and i want to be silenced i'm telling you know i scrapped michael songs and just seems to me to mr. so this is an answer these are the top stories for what leaders of a rebel group in central african republic of denied committing war crimes 7 years ago when the country descended into civil war the trial for alfred you can song and party said what in god's son begun at the international criminal court on tuesday they're accused of targeting muslims in a campaign of torture murder and rape from its inception and i saw it i was aware of the anti bloc as organizational policy.