the country was torn by conflict and drive a claims of power. but it's hoped talks will finally bring peace and stability join us as we assess libya's road to elections on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. the time is 1500 hours g.m.t. 6 pm here and hello i'm come all santamaria welcome to the news hour the dutch government is urging its citizens to respect the coronavirus restrictions despite a court order ending the nighttime curfew also in the news another charge filed against unsung suchi by me in military as china says the situation is absolutely

not what it wants to see charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity but 2 former politicians from central african republic refute the allegations at the international criminal court and iran denies any ties with an iraqi group that's claiming responsibility for an attack on u.s. led forces in the kurdish capital. and i'm pleased to meet with the sports news defending champion know that djokovic beats alexander's very have to reach the semifinals of the australian open. hello everyone was starting with coronavirus news this hour and the nighttime curfew which brought so many dutch demonstrators out onto the streets it is officially no more a judge in the netherlands has ruled all 4 he's illegally used their emergency powers to impose the restrictions which were supposed to. in place until next month

the dutch prime minister called the ruling disappointing but said the measures had been necessary to reduce the number of covert 19 infections he says the government will appeal the decision and will work on a new law just a quick look at the johns hopkins university data on the netherlands which shows that the country of 17000000 people has now passed 1000000 infections you see on the left it is approaching 15000 covert related deaths and just down there at the bottom you see a little over 600000 doses of the covert vaccine have been administered let's talk to jonah how in london for us to david covering news across europe and jonah i'm just thinking back to all those pictures the huge protests that we saw i'm guessing this will be greeted with some pleasure by people in the netherlands. no doubt those antilock down protestors would be very pleased this is a measure that was introduced on january 23rd by the government in response to the emerging new variants mutations of that bar is far more contagious than before it

was in place only for 2 weeks in theory then extended until march the herd and its as you say violent protests across the country well one of those groups brought an action to the course of viruses via hate or the truth about the virus they're called. training with the measure was unwarranted. and unwarranted limitation rather on personal freedom a court came down on their side deciding that in fact the government in that didn't have any legal basis to introduce this measure this law in the 1st place it had done so under emergency powers sidelining parliament in the senate in doing so the court found that it hadn't provided proper justification to using those emergency powers at this point in a year long endemic and therefore struck that measure down now it doesn't and instantly we're expecting a hearing to take place our believe in the coming hour the government requesting

that the verdict be set aside and suspended rather pending a full view of the government is going to feel we have weighed the court's verdict on that request but mark ruta the prime minister as you said held a televised press conference shortly after the verdict during the course of the morning urging people to abide by the terms of the law and the curfew for the time being gentlemen to think about the displeasure that we saw at the curfew and that lock downs in general i mean obviously not limited to the netherlands i think about the u.k. where you are where actually vaccination is going so well what are you up to 1515000000 now but still people a solar angry about the idea of being locked down. well you know it's been a long year for who another that and many countries now their 3rd round of full scale lockdown it is absolutely exhausting and punishing and everyone of course turned the corner to the corner of the 1st of december into 2021 when everything

was supposed to be so much better and here we still are and in many countries that with no clear idea of why when lock downs will be over the european union in particular struggling with its vaccine rollout albeit the e.u. has access to formal vaccine and indeed has delivered a formal vaccine than just about any developing country on the planet but not a pretty picture unfolding for us live on the line the european commission president there who has admitted in the last couple days that they're not where they want to be they too slow axeman approvals they had quote been too optimistic about that mass production of the vaccine in other words overestimated the readiness the supply of product to reach all of the countries of the you that said 26000000 doses have been delivered in the e.u. they expect 70 percent of adults to be vaccinated by the end of the summer in about 6 months time contrast that as you said came out of the u.k.

doing much better on some measures at least they just hit its major milestone the 15000000 of the most vulnerable people in vaccinated at least for the 1st dose by the middle of february and that rollout powering on but the government treading very cautiously image when be willing to look lift locked out this government and no doubt every government is keen to ensure that this law is the last and as if to hammer home the point that is john holl reporting from today in london john thank you for that. we move on to other news 1000000 miles military which has denied carrying out a coup and pledged again to hold elections next year a spokesman for the armed forces said they had no choice but to seize power that's their words and then moments later the lawyer of the deposed leader unsung suchi said the military had filed an additional charge against her more in this report from scotland. continuing their civil disobedience movement who protesters blocked train services out of instant railway station one of the city's

large. and east on the other end of the line and protesters there also did the same 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 yes i do go to movies in it yeah you need money. party had a chance to solve problems like an election for 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 protestors are inciting the violence and illegally pressuring civil servants the protesters have become violent rather than peaceful. elsewhere in yangon protesters laid down to look like they were resting illustrating the point that tense nights are robbing them of sleep this overconcerned of nighttime 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 some feel 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 coming to watch 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. also a group of musicians in me and ma have turned to their arts to protest against the military coup. this song is called

revolution the street orchestra says it wants to encourage young people to join the ongoing demonstrations of dances also took part in that performance on tuesday as protests across enter and 11th day mark. the meaning of the song we were playing was that with the flesh and blood of our young people who were trying to end the military dictatorship you know. people are asking are you guys happy dance or no we're not happy we just venting our blue emotions just living our compulsion take control what we do. to figure pollan is following developments from hong kong today hi dear so the military says that wasn't a coup and clearly the protestors would disagree with that 11 days of protests now it just seems to be a stalemate almost. and the then as we've seen in the past few days protesters are now most of them are off the streets

a curfew now is in place as it's been almost every night since the protests started but what's interesting is although we're not seeing the same number of protesters what they're trying to do is push the military government in other ways rather than a large presence on the streets they're trying to boycott entities which the military government profits from the members of the military have many business interests across me and more they're also trying to encourage work stoppages there out of you surrounding government buildings and asking people to join the protests along with disrupting travel and transports so what they're trying to do is topple the government functions from continuing so while it is the same as it is also possibly of concern to the military given that we've seen them speak out today for the 1st time in the form of a press conference where they justified why they have taken over the from the

civilian government and they also accuse the protesters of being violent and attacking police but did not mention of course the crackdown and the security forces firing at the crowds and using harder means against the protesters but they also did say that after a year there will be elections but once again this is of no comfort to the protesters who understand that whatever the process is now so long as aung san suu kyi is still locked up and all that her allies her law and given the fact that there seems to be no proper trial process for them of the charges leveled at them seem baseless that even this promise of elections will not result in any kind of democratic proper democratic change for the country to be a wonderful can. it'll bit and ask you about china's role in the meanwhile is

a phrase i know there was an interview which the chinese ambassador to me and my gave basically saying no we didn't know any of this will happen and we don't like it i mean china's position whatever it says is always very crucial in the meanwhile story. that's right they're very strong they have strong trade ties china has infrastructure partnerships so that me and my are for for the most part over the decades the chinese governments have backed the military government throughout the dictatorship and that that might have shifted somewhat during what we saw was a semi civilian government but the fact is china is very important to me and mar but it is worth mentioning or remembering that man mars no puppet of china and the move whether it's a military government or a civilian government they are very strongly nationalistic but me and mar dulce need china so china has been a lot like the western countries and other countries china has been very slow to

condemn our has refused to condemn what's happening in ian mars saying that it's me and mars the country's internal affairs although they did agree with the un security council statement saying that aung san suu kyi and other political leaders should be released from detention but that's where they're pretty much stopped short either way we won't be seeing much action from china particularly because china has its own authoritarian government and it does take a stance internationally that they will not meddle in other people's affairs as they do not want others to meddle in there. keeping us up to date with events in me and and further beyond thank you dear. 2 former 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 yes tom and patrice i guess sauna began at the international criminal court on tuesday they are accused of targeting muslims in

a campaign of torture murder and rape and it was after muslim seleka rebels overthrew the government at the time they were allegedly leaders of a predominantly christian rebel group from its inception and i saw i was aware of the anti blockers organizational policy that policy entailed violent targeting of muslim civilians in western c.a.r. who based on their role aegis national or ethnic affiliation were perceived as collectively responsible for complicit with and supportive of the telic you will hear this referred to as the criminal policy or common purpose in our presentation. i have understood everything that has been said here and i get to critically say these counts are not correct i reject all of the charges you have laid against me which should have been done i don't recognize the charges brought against me i am not guilty following this story for us from the international

criminal court in the hague step. 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 home 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 prosecutor has outlined a very detailed description of how well organized the anti baloch on militias were they were very systematically going from one muslim village to the other attacking the muslim minority in the 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 modern a 1000000 people were displaced during this wave of violence. coming up 60 minutes past the hour and here's what's coming up. soon. a bad rap for a spanish musician his lyrics not music to the ears of spain's monarchy and that's likely to land him in jail. when you count for new arrivals in sudan why refugees are fleeing ethiopia and heading this time to blue nile states in sport india is a cricket has wrapped up a huge win over england in the 2nd test because it will have your sport at about 10 to the.

french presidency manu micron has pledged to step up efforts to fight al-qaeda linked groups in the whole region of africa micro must speaking on a video link to the presidents of the g 5 nations that is bikini faso mali mauritania chad he called on international partners to provide long term financing for the south hope forces that clearly loot 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 health force which has already made immense progress our intention now is to strengthen this g 5 force with sustained funding. mccrone also said now is not the time to withdraw french troops but has more on that from paris. he said that the some 5000 or more troops that are actually posted in this i held region from france have had victories and significant victories over the past year that 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 imagine or micro did say that it was very important that the international community did more to support the g 5 forces both financially economically and with 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 certainly 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 at least $75.00 people have died and hundreds are still missing in democratic republic of congo

after a boat capsized this happened late on sunday on the congo river near a lake in mind when the vessel was traveling from the capital kinshasa to quit took province the government says it was overloaded. to democracy activists in hong kong of pleaded guilty to organizing an illegal assembly in $2197.00 others denied the charges including the media tycoon jimmy lie and martin lee who is known as hong kong's father of democracy the trials are related to a demonstration in august of 2019 against beijing's influence around which to nearly 2000000 people critics say the charges are proof the government is rulings through fear. what are we about to. run a big mama problem or primary growth. grandmother got corporate growth run. from the rule of law and go rule by 3 year. old student protesters in new delhi are

demanding the release of climate activists to shut out of the. indian police charged with sedition and link to the swedish climate campaign upgraded to 22 year old is accused of creating an action plan the police say was used to foment violence during a farmers rally last month thousands of farmers of course have been protesting for weeks against the new laws which they say benefit large private lives at their expense protests toll so hometown of bengal room in the south where she was arrested on sunday her supporters accuse the police of using the activist as a scapegoat for the violent protests of january 26th and thousands of farmers tore down barricades and raised a religious flag at the red fort in new delhi. our biggest concern here is how does delhi polis not find the actual culprits who disrespect the national monument on

26th and couldn't fight and if i had. and all of a sudden find just. being a little and comes all of even barely daughters to one student. as far as douche is a risk is concerned it was done as per the law and following the proper procedures the law doesn't differentiate between a 22 year old or a 50 year old after reviewing everything she appeared before a court in the metropolitan magistrate of the court acknowledged that it was right to risk to incent to 5 days in police custody it's a myth when people say that would description sees with the wrist. 5 people have been sentenced to death for the murder of an author in bangladesh roy was asked to death outside a book fair in 2015 he was a us citizen a prominent author and blogger who criticised religious extremism his killers are all members of an al qaeda inspired group which is believed to have killed more than a dozen secular activists and bloggers. well russian police have raided the homes

of journalists and activists as the crackdown on anti-government protests intensifies members of the independent belorussian association of journalists and rights group. 96 say their homes were searched by officers on tuesday or than 33000 people have been detained during mass rallies against the disputed election going back to last august when president alexander lukashenko won a 6 term in office prosecutors in russia have asked the court to fine the kremlin critic alexina valmy $13000.00 for slandering a world war 2 veteran novelli says the charge is politically motivated just an attempt to smear his reputation earlier this month he was also sentenced to almost 3 years in prison for parole violations thousands of people have been arrested during protests in support of and about me. dozens of spanish police to storm the university and 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 the law that was used to convict him scrapped michaelson was more. than. this is the moment policed on the catalan university of lagos to rest pub no hustle the rap artist had barricaded himself into a wide rest 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 the fine i don't know the they will never make us give in despite the repression was the right. process cases inspired support across the country last week dozens of demonstrators rallied in madrid demanding his for the. first of all i think it's all right.

well for us your opinion either rappin either sing 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 the same age. 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 as jane lang. causeless case has left the government to reform what's known as the gag law that was intended to prevent the glorification of terrorists and. 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 200-2019. for marching orders the artist says he uses raf as a tool for transformation and want to be sons hunter when i scrapped michael i'm just amazed. you. know iraq's 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 are stationed a little known group claims to a target of a military base iran has denied it has any ties with it one foreign contractor was killed several others wounded including a u.s. service member with us now from arlington virginia you know one side who is an analyst at the middle east research institute to talk a little bit more about this the group 1st of all can you enlighten us more about this group and any potential links that might have. this

is quite unusual is deliberately emerged in the last 2 or 3 months and is. part of the wind there are militia. forces which i believe it is listen iran to devolve and trying to 'd subdue enter into areas. there is a group isn't different and later responsibility and accountability when they conduct such times of it whether it is again they watched. the u.s. forces or you know iraq at the back like the one that we saw yesterday in ever built. i'm interested in the geography as well obviously targeting foreign forces

of any type as is normal i guess for iraq but hitting a bill instead of a place like baghdad for example why do you think. so but. it is let me just give you a look a little bit background would have in in the border of kurdistan region after $2717.00 when the kurdish forces were and were driving an hour they were all implicit by various and militia groups has mostly been a popular mobilization force that will jointly that shit up forces in the recent monsters that have actually inserted all of their consulate power across that kurdistan border is done recently seen as an ally of the western countries specially the united states does that have both previously that the u.s. forces saw u.s. interests and non-state and we were now across the across iraq including in the

kurdistan region as well so this was really not a surprise we'll see these kinds of attack is a real. yeah fact that there are real just 5 months ago that climbs that rocket attack was not that's accurate isn't there were all 1177 rockets that. ariel airport but these attacks from last night appears to be more sophisticated accurate and they were much larger in the terms of numbers so is it is it away or most of showing. the u.s. forces and the iraqi government as well that look we can hit you wherever we want we don't we don't limiting ourselves to anyway. absolutely absolutely and that's what. you know standing in play i mean i think. it will just when you know the previous years statements say they stand julie iraqi government the

u.s. and also to be. is a k k r t but it's you know this kind of but that is also can be seen or analyzed in a large u.s. iranian shoot down in iraq issues they're trying to test the result of the i mean at least ration they're trying to see by even a new station like donald trump is rightly used to charge of such tactics to protect the u.s. our allies that interest is. in there. you know one side bringing us his expertise on iraq on the news hour thank you for your time so. straight to your new zealander at all over who should shoulder responsibility for the possible to importation of a dual citizen arrested in turkey turkish authorities say the men and 2 children were court crossing into the country illegally from syria then is said to have traveled from australia to syria and 2014 to live in i saw hilts territory stripped

of her australian citizenship last year on the anti terrorism laws plenty more ahead of you on this news hour 50000000 people within 2 months that's mexico's target for the elderly in the 2nd phase of its coronavirus vaccination drive and in sport with pate of the russian tennis player making history in australia. well as a big storm brewing in the eastern med it's going to affect most of arabia a particular event you'll notice turkey 1st of all gets the snow then the wind picks up the rain which is its northern egypt and then into the levant it moves east with the cloud is sort of building in coming together suddenly breeze through kuwait 34 degrees and this westerly coming in so that's

a line of thunderstorms quite likely and then he corrupt it right and it's still windy and cold in north needs it sherry as far south as golan heights it could be stuck in the lebanese mountains and 6 degrees in jerusalem now watch kuwait as us think this thing comes south as the wind direction would change down to 19 degrees on a thunder day and that rain is on its way down through towards bahrain and probably cata some in the middle of saudi during late thursday or early friday and is equally active weather possibly worse to be honest here fairly obvious circulation is trying to develop at the moment and in the forecast this is for tuesday that southerly near gale is just miss maputo but the rain is forecast to the north of that might well richard beira this isn't the end of it the circulation tries to form then the rain goes off shore time to get to thursday that's looking quite dangerous.

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football on 0. on the news on here at al-jazeera these are the top stories a judge in the netherlands has ruled authorities illegally used emergency powers to impose a nighttime curfew and it was to control 19 the dutch prime minister called the decision disappointing he is urging citizens to keep respecting the restrictions mean miles militaries do not carrying out a coup and pledged again to hold elections next year a spokesman for the armed forces says that they had no choice but to seize power protests against them in. takeover are now into their 11th day. and 2 former

leaders of a rebel group in central african republic of tonight committing war crimes trial for alfred. sauna began at the international criminal court they are accused of targeting muslims in a campaign of torture murder and rape back in 2013 and 14. or thousands of ethiopians from the. region have been forced to risk their homes and cross into sudan's blue nile state violence in recent months has resulted in a steady flow of refugees and aid agencies are worried about getting basic supplies to those who have left their homes with barely anything morgan many of those who've taken refuge near the sudan ethiopia border hundreds of refugees from danish angolan ethiopia have come to this camp near the border with sudan for refuge there fled fighting between ethnic groups in the medical zone m one a 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 or there. and who they came in to talk to 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 others with an opposite direction were 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 harassed 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. with 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 so they are targeting us commutes families 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. to more good 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 on the sudan if your paper order. with us from chicago and also remember who is a senior fellow at refugees international you know so the 1st thing which struck me with this story is that we were obviously and rightly i would say focused on the tigre a region for so long and what's happening there and yet there is this happening in another area and i suspect other refugee problems in the country to worry about. yeah i think that's a really important point and while so much attention is well deserved on tikrit given how dire the situation there is

a report really does highlight that other regions in ethiopia are an increasingly violent increasingly dire many of these are a lot of standing tensions over as the report demonstrates fertile land and other disputes but also ethnic conflict that runs quite deep so there is a concern that he is having this kind of increased or exacerbated fragmentation that could domino spiral into other conflicts but but you're right a lot of the attention has has sort of taken the spotlight off of some of these other increasingly worrisome situations so as you pointed out one of the issues is the 1st our land and one of the people in in his report simply said well they want the fertile land they don't have it so they're coming in and attacking us and there's nothing we can do because we're weaker i mean how do you how do you redress that sort of thing so that people aren't at the point of violence and being forced from their homes. yeah i think i mean i think it's a really complex problem and as you said i think you know to just say there's you know fighting over land kind of denies

a longstanding history between different groups and a lot of movement in the region i think the ethiopian military has been. theoretically deployed to help qualm some of the violence but of course would be increased attacks were not seen that ideally we would see diplomacy and national dialogue and representation of minorities at the political level but for now it seems that that's unlikely and there have even been cases where situation invention governments has been exploited to make a politicized or blame the t.l.'s saying violence in other parts of the country is related to the tepee l.f. which certainly there's there's plenty about and many great region but i think the politicization is making it difficult to see any progress in the region and as you heard in the report the people who are really being. who are suffering the most are more often than not civilians women and children people who have very little means to. capacity with with much beyond what they have on their backs and they're in

a really dire situation always the cases and it just tell me about the the pressure i guess this puts on sudan as well because if you look at it from the other side they are i mean sudan's a country with plenty of problems of its own and now is sheltering so many people coming in from ethiopia. yeah that's a really important point to highlight. sudan has hosted already a longstanding population of some 1000000 refugees many in protracted situations with a range of beans but the latest influx of course from t. gray. 61000 and now the thousands that are coming from the nation grammars and even from other parts of the country are putting sudan in a really difficult place while they have generally not refused entry and as the report highlights and as a lot of our work and research shows that could change the welcome could become

more wary as time drags on of course the refugees are quite difficult to access the un and n.g.o.s are working hard to mobilize but sudan is definitely going to need a lot more assistance financial and technical support to really respond to the needs not just building camps but thinking for the long term because quite frankly most of the refugees arriving in sudan are likely to be staying for a long period in time so one of the important questions will be going thinking beyond just humanitarian assistance immediate needs which is hard enough on its own but really thinking long term about hosting this population or miller's from refugees international we thank you very much for your time thank you. the world health organization says it polar vaccines are on their way to guinea to deal with a new outbreak of the disease 5 people have died 2 have tested positive and 10 others have symptoms the outbreak is linked to

a funeral in early february an author whose are trying to track down anyone who had contact with those infected nicholas hark following that story from dakar in senegal he asked nicholas money from the alliance for international medical action what challenges health workers face getting into getting that vaccine into communities. so we work with the travails and the very trying those upon not to distribute the vaccine on the ground. i think what is very important now is to make them a very berlin connect it with. and to give to goodness age for the population to be sure that they will accept to get vaccinated as a strong measures to contain the outbreak so i think it's going to be challenging to get people to take a vaccine against the blood despite so many people who have died in the past why is that no i think it's a really easy forgive the good message in the free just say ok listen. if you

during 12 to 18 months and it will prevent you to get it then of course everybody will want to be vaccinated the donors know it will be to be sure that there are enough doses in the country for this population we know how quickly we can get those vaccines on the ground in their current. well it's 2 days drive between connected to the recall is so as soon as they are very able they can be deployed and. again and authorities are working on that strongly now this outbreak that killed 11000 people infected more than 20000 people in west africa. a couple of years ago and yet there are no vaccines in these countries why is that so a lot of vaccine have been used in the previous i break india. at this time directionally are used in the study protocols so they couldn't get they couldn't be produced in big cities but now that the vaccine has been authorized by the bill to a true the u.s. and europe. the manufacturer can produce

a larger quantity and then deliver it to the country when it's needed if i understand well this vaccine needs to be kept at very low temperatures under minus 80 degrees celsius and you're to try to transport these doses to a country where it's extremely hard where health facilities sometimes don't have access to. tricity let alone running water what are the challenges to try to get those vaccines on the ground. changes so we have to be sure that we have already done this is harry and do electricity to make them work or lives have been used in syria for example so we can definitely do the same thing and again. with the. thank you very much now really the challenge ahead is not just the vaccine it's also trying to communicate with the communities on the ground during a global pandemic so certain countries surrounding getting have taken steps liberia sierra leone are are are in a high alert to try to see if there are contact cases within their borders and

right now the health authorities in guinea are trying to get onto the ground trying to find out who this nurse who was the patient that died from a bowler who she was in contact with to try to find patients here as to try to contain this outbreak while we're talking vaccines the palestinian authority says israel has stopped 2000 coronavirus vaccines from being to delivered to the gaza strip the 1st doses of the sputnik back scene was supposed to be given out on tuesday more than 2000000 palestinians living in the gaza strip have yet to receive any inoculations human rights groups are criticizing israel for not providing vaccines to palestinians living under israeli occupation in the west bank and the gaza strip. a 2nd round of coronavirus vaccines is being administered in mexico's capital health officials want to inoculate 15000000 elderly people in 2 months on a regular reports from mexico city. queues or long outside vaccination centers

in the outskirts of the mexican capital on monday health officials rolled out the 2nd phase of mexico's national inoculation program. i feel happy after receiving the vaccine i'm glad they brought us the vaccine. they say that with the vaccine hopefully we can control the pandemic because too many of our poor brothers and sisters have left us. after weeks of delays some 870000 doses of the astra zeneca covert 900 vaccine arrived in the mexican capital over the weekend restarting the country stalled next nation efforts you look at all you start with this if you've got what we're witnessing today is the arrival of the 1st test resentment of vaccines developed with oxford's that were produced in india from mexico this should mean is very important because it will let us accelerate our vaccination drive as was ordered by the president. mexico's military has been

mobilized to deliver new doses of the vaccine to all 32 mexican states. that of mexico is nearing 2000000 confirmed cases and ranks 3rd in the world in cope with 19 deaths the latest shipments of vaccines or arriving at a critical time jack. city ending health officials have got the vaccine they arrived in the morning and they will continue arriving on tuesday and they won't stop arriving and national immunization plan won't stop as we have said there is preference for the elderly. while the 2nd phase of the vaccination program will focus on the elderly and frontline health workers the government has also placed top priority on rural areas where rates of transmission are relatively low many health policy experts say this is the. wrong strategy adding that the government should be focused on inoculation efforts in densely populated cities were authorities continue to struggle to curb contagion. mexico's vaccination program began in december of last year since then mexico's president has said the

government intends to vaccinate the entire population that's more than 126000000 people by march of 2022 man who ended up a little al-jazeera mexico city. and investigations been launched in peru to find out why nearly 500 people including many government officials were secretly banks and hated head of health workers former president martin this cut has apologized after it was revealed he and his wife got their injections back in october on sunday the foreign minister resigned after it emerged she'd also been given a secret. real sports news is on the way as possible and get ready to face paris century man in the champions league has got all the build up in just a moment. a

promise to pay for with the sport attend to the 7 seconds away so they get very kind coronavirus find of a continue to impact the lympics a major boxing qualifying. i promise to you peter with the sport attend to the hour 7 seconds away so the minute you very kind come on the coronavirus found their way continues to impact the olympics a major boxing qualifying tournament has been cancelled because of global travel restrictions means the $53.00 olympic places it would have been up for grabs will not be in the ring but instead allocated by woold rankings this affects fighters in

the africa and asia oceania regions boxes in the americas and europe can still fight for their places providing they tournament go ahead the olympics are just 5 months away and aside from getting athletes qualified it's still not clear how they can be held safely amid a global health crisis recent polls suggest 80 percent of the japanese public want the games postponed again or scrapped altogether not a covert $1000.00 complications for rugby 6 nations tournament with the entire french squad going into isolation that's because a staff member has tested positive the whole team and head coach tested negative on monday but will be retested today front or top of the 6 nations with 2 win so far against italy and most recently against ireland the dublin fortunately they are no games this week. the fainting champion no back talk about chest fall through to the semifinals of the australian open while in the women's draw serena williams set up a meeting in the last 4 with naomi osaka open not only has

a joke of it's been carrying an abdominal injury his last 4 matches including this quarter final showdown against alexander sparrow have gone to 4 sets a wall with his german opponent having taken the opening set $75.00 djokovic had to dig deep physically and mentally to fight back and the pressure was beginning to show. how well the ball girl picked up the pieces of his smashed racquets pulled himself together to come from behind in the 3rd and 4th sets joke which clinching victory on a tie break to book his place in the last 4 as he chases a 9th title in melbourne and. regain my focus after a brawl that wreckage things started to shift a little bit for me in a you know in a positive direction. yeah as i said you know he if he would win this match it wouldn't wouldn't be definitely undeserved i mean he was playing splaying really well. it was anybody's game i'm just really glad to overcome such such challenge.

joke of it will now play aslam katz said who continued his sensational run at the australian open the russian qualifier his ranked 114th was up against grigor dimitrov many of the medical time out for a back spasm. corruptive going on to win in 4 sets to become the 1st man in the open era to reach the semifinals on his grand slam debut. in the women's competition serena williams came through a real test of her credentials as she faced 2nd seed simona halep over the 23 time grand slam champion did allow some doubts to creep injuring as high quality high stakes quarterfinal serena closed out the game with a 6363 win was whether or not she's the greatest athletes will come down to the next 2 matches as she chases margaret court as grand slam record of 24 titles. the standing in her way will be no moussaka who beat one of her own favorite

players on tuesday the world number 3 dismissed chase away in straight sets the semifinal against serena will be the pez 1st meeting in a grand slam since williams' infamous on court meltdown at the 2018 u.s. open final which is soccer went on to win. i always watch serenus matches and. they are normally i never look at my draw but everyone has told me about my draw here so i kind of had no choice but to know who my next opponent is definitely going to be really fun were think we both have that closure we've reached out to each other have definitely reached out and she's. yeah so of the core it's hard i think she's she's a great competitor. she's a cool cat. it appears that both players a willing to draw a line under the episode as they chase another grand slam title jonica al-jazeera.

india's cricketers have thrashed england in the 2nd test a level series at $11.00 once again the visitors could not handle the turning pitch in chennai and india's spin bowlers took 10 wickets in collapsing to 164 all out of the making just 134 when the 1st innings india won by 370 runs the 13th day night match at start in ahmedabad on february the 24th. i think you. are out. ringback or be leipzig play their home tie against liverpool in the last 16 of the european champions league later except they won't be at home the 1st leg is being played in budapest hungary because june or thirty's denied liverpool entry see the country deeds a covert 1000 pro to gold who won the champions league in 29 team but

a struggling in the premier league right now with only 2 wins in the last taney games is their get because of the observation of liverpool of more or less given up on the premier league title so now they only have to focus on the champions league which they can still win so they're going to come full of energy trying to get the situation at home so we need to watch out it's going to be a very close match the biggest match up of the night seize power surge a man against barcelona this was supposed to be p.s.g. star neymar forget his former club but he's out injured last time the middle bit ok amp and 2017 p.s.t. with umped 61 despite arriving in spain with a 4 nil lead from the 1st leg. in the n.b.a. on monday the league's 2 conference leaders came face to face in an exciting high scoring affair the utah jazz or the top team in the western conference while the philadelphia 76 is the leading franchise in the east children clarkson scoring 40 points as the jazz claimed an 8th straight win and 19th in 20 games final score

134123 to utah. elsewhere the brooklyn nets got the better of the sacramento kings 136125 james harden with these firth triple double since trading from the houston rockets last month broken thinking 273 pointers a franchise record. the new formula one season starts next month and teams are starting to launch the new cars and turn of the 1st to reveal their latest design they finished 3rd in the constructor standings last season thanks to some great performances for lando norris and this year is going to teammate then you'll recall . naturally it does take some time to learn you know a new team a new car but i guess i'm going to be hard on myself not to give myself too much time so i think having another new teammate my 2nd teammate in formula one danny rick i think is very exciting. a lot of experience around on his side race wins podiums and so on so it's call for me to learn from someone different i think with

10 years apart so i'm obviously a lot older but in mclaren terms he's a lot of unmarried most sports news on the way again later. pickett thanks so much for that with the sports. and we're back in just a couple of minutes time you know the news never stops online and on air you see in a moment on al-jazeera. biggest challenge cause of all there is corruption corruption is so full that now this is the only way to go through. a course of

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