of corruption and the role of powerful multinational it's people in power investigates. it's the funniest on al-jazeera if you want to help save the world. the dutch government urges its citizens to respect the coronavirus restrictions despite a court order which has ended the nighttime curfew. again i'm come out santamaria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera there's been another charge filed against unsung suchi by me and military genter china though is saying the situation is absolutely not what it wants to see. the u.s.

calls on yemen's hoti rebels to stop fighting in the government held city of mali. and charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity but 2 former politicians from central african republic refuse the allegations at the international criminal court. so coronavirus news 1st of all the nighttime curfew which brought dutch demonstrators out onto the streets is officially no more a judge in the netherlands as a rule for his illegally used emergency powers to impose the restrictions which were supposed to remain in place until next month the dutch prime minister mark root called the ruling disappointing but said the measures had been necessary to reduce the number of covert 1000 infections he says the government will appeal the decision and will work on a new law let's have a little quick look at the johns hopkins university data from the netherlands a country of so. and 1000000 people you see on the left 1000000 infections and also

approaching 15000 cova deaths and further down 600000 doses so far of the vaccine have been administered john house following this one from london for us today so it has to be a lot of people who would be concerned about this the fact that. restrictions have been lifted and what it could mean for the covert numbers but when it goes to the court it's all official. yet it's clearly a blow to the government's. policy in the netherlands maku to make that clear the promise and of course the war will be that it takes the opens the door to similar actions elsewhere it introduced in the 23rd of january this not on curfew the 1st not time curfew that happens it's the 2nd world war it was only meant to be that for 2 weeks the government making the case to the people then that it was absolutely necessary in the emergence of this new wave of sort of coronavirus mutations and barents and it was then extended to march that until this court case

came in an antidote down group of course they would have been part of those groups who had been at it who had protested across the country when the measure it was cruel to you that they went to court claiming that the measure was an unwarranted limitation on personal freedom but the court came down on their side the century saying the measure had no legal basis because it ain't been brought about and that it moved in c. powers the government use these images as a sideline parliament in the senate but it hasn't made a proper case to justify the use of those images because at this stage in it in the pen and so the measure struck down the government has tried to ask the court to stay with verdict to suspend the verdict ending the outcome all the appeal that the government intends to launch we don't know the outcome of that particular requests we still waiting for that but margaret it did give a televised press conference there should be off as you said a century old people because of the severity of these new strains to abide by and

to abide by it indeed the measures of the people the town being china can i ask for an update from you on the situation in the u.k. as well i'm reading about a large number of people being added to the shielding list 1st of all remind us what shielding actually entails and also who are the people and how many more. well back to our zone here of course but death rates sadly and infection rates remain stubbornly high scientists at the university of oxford come up with this particular predictive modeling tool which is being rolled out by health issues a century adding 1700000 people to an already 2200000 long list of those who are considered more vulnerable to the worst effects occur with 90 should therefore be shielding for their own protection and who now been announced will this new raft of 1700000 people as well be pushed forward for priority access the vaccine if they

haven't already now what's new about this is that the criteria being used to decide whether a person is vulnerable that we should be shooting on not just the sort of binary factors of age and underlying health conditions like disease and so on they're now taking into account other risk factors like ethnicity like postcode where you live in other words to try and get a picture of levels of deprivation that we know who played so heavily into the negative statistics. over the course of the last year so it's a new approach it's a process it's based on multiple risk factors it takes into account so ship economic factors as well which means that it's able to include in the net far more people who are not perfect or protected or even recognise the need of protection before including the likes of recreation and minority ethnic groups many of whom are key or essential workers many of them live in multigenerational households and many of whom have we know been disproportionately affected by their endemic up to

now they simply haven't had the recognition protection that they've needed or deserve and trying to just while you've been talking 799 deaths in the u.k. in the last 24 hours and i have a 10000 cases as well really underlining how serious it all still is and to join al in london. now the palestinian authority says israel has stopped 2000 coronavirus vaccines being delivered to the gaza strip the 1st doses of the sputnik vaccine was supposed to be given out on tuesday more than 2000000 palestinians living in the gaza strip are yet to receive any inoculations human rights groups have criticize israel for not providing vaccines to palestinians who of course live under israeli occupation in the west bank and the gaza strip harri force that has more on the story 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 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. on to other news in may and mars military 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 but then moments later the lawyer for the deposed leader aung sang suu kyi said the military had filed another charge against her more from scott hyla they're. continuing their civil disobedience movement who protesters blocked train services out of instant railway station one of the city's largest. and east on the other end

of the line of 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 soon you know you need money. the party had a chance to solve problems like election fraud 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 protesters 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 protesters ramp up pressure by strikes and rallies some p.r. it might prompt

a strong reaction from the military the government is also. trying to demonstrate. tacitly that they may tolerate the street protests but if the protest try to occupy those buildings or prevent. a walkers from county 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 idlers al-jazeera the united states has called on yemeni yemen's fighters to halt their advance on the city of miami the government's lost northern strongholds the state department also urged both these to turn to negotiations and

join the international efforts to find a political solution to end yemen's 5 year war earlier the united nations want to marry but offensive could endanger millions of civilians and lead to unimaginable humanitarian consequences white house correspondent is kimberly how that can really tell us more about this i guess another sign of the u.s. engaging in the yemen conflict diplomatically rather than the last administration which decided to designate who these are terrorists. yeah the reason behind all of this has a lot to do with the polish policy shift taking place within the biden administration quite a shift from the trumpet ministration in the state of their release by the state department what this is is not a condoning in any way of the who thesis and the sort of lifting of that terrorist designation that took place last week but instead it is

a very strong call to the who these just cease their military operations in the government held city of mehrab they say that these actions are not consistent with peace and that it is really time to end the war that has hurt so many civilians in yemen now what they're also calling on it from the state department is a cease of those cross border attacks into saudi arabia and to as you pointed out participate in the un led political process what the statement is saying is that it's time to end the conflict there is no military solution so this is really an important shift because not only did the biden administration end that designation not because they were comfortable with the actions of the who things but instead because of humanitarian concerns that there was a feeling that this was hampering aid and activists and and international bodies were urging the biden administration to lift this designation that the truck

administration put in its final day in office so this is one aspect of that sort of reshift or rebalance if you will but the other is the fact that the united states is also ended its military support for the saudi led conflict in yemen so there's a lot going on here something that we may hear more from the white house press secretary jeh psaki she will be holding a briefing here at the white house in the next hour and it's expected that there could be more details on this shift in policy coming from the bonded ministration more of them we want to talk tonight about that going to be how could a white house correspondent. in the news i had a new camp for new arrivals this is in sudan and refugees are fleeing ethiopia and heading to sudan's blue nile states. or my scene of. a bad rap for spanish musician his lyrics are not music to the years of spain's monaco and that's likely to land him in jail.

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here with al jazeera these are the top stories a judge in the netherlands is wroth ortiz illegally used emergency powers to impose a nighttime curfew to control coverage 19 about church prime minister called the decision disappointing and is still urging citizens to respect the restrictions 1000000 miles militaries denied carrying out a coup and pledged again to hold elections next year a spokesman for the armed forces says they had no choice but to scenes power the protests against the military takeover and now into an 11th day the united states

has called on yemen's hoti fighters to halt their advance on the city of money the government's last norton stronghold it's also the who it is to turn to negotiations and join the international efforts to find a political solution. 2 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 a trial for alfred yakka tolman. began at the international criminal court on tuesday they're accused of targeting muslims in a campaign of torture murder and rape this is after muslim seleka rebels overthrew the government at the time they were allegedly they didn't have a predominantly christian rebel group from its inception and i saw i was aware of the anti bloc as organizational policy that policy entailed violent targeting of muslim civilians and western c.a.r. who based on their religious 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 more from step fossum covering the story in the hague. 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 we are violent is still happening we're talking about 2 leaders one is more like a military leader that got 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 a 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 of 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 iraq's presidents 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 an iranian backed shia group claims to have targeted the military base one foreign contractor was killed and several of the wounded including a u.s. service member we spoke to you live and so you about the middle east research

institute says iraq's armed groups have become increasingly fractured. this is quite a new all grew up that is believed to be emerged in the last 2 or 3 months and is probably a part of the wind there are militia. forces i believe it is iran to devolve and trying to subdue enter into various. areas a group has and different name and so that the. responsibility and accountability when they conduct such times of activity whether it is against the russian. the us forces or you know are brought at the back like the one that we saw yesterday in this was really not a surprise will seeing these kinds of attack is

a real. their tactics are real just 5 months ago but that's why the rocket attack was not that's accurate at this point there were only lead 77 rockets that. ariel airport but these attacks from last night appears to be more sophisticated what accurate and there were much larger in the term of numbers the french president emmanuel micron's pledged to step up efforts to fight al qaeda linked groups in the salary gin of africa mccrum was speaking on video link to the presidents of the g 5 nations that has been a fast so mali mauritania news yet chad he called on international partners to provide long term financing for the south forces. clearly the loot concluded would deal with the absolute priority of our military strategy is to continue our fight against terrorist groups to complete 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 5 force with sustained funding. mccrone also said now was not the time to withdraw french troops but the 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 so thick trees some 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 germany 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. thousands of ethiopians from the benefit region have been forced to escape 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 just the basic supplies to those who've left their homes with anything but morgan many of those who've taken refuge near the sudan ethiopia border. hundreds of refugees from danish ngo 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 moon 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 who they came and attacked us the civilians for 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 seasons into the bush the other side in the opposite direction in the bush for 15 days as a reader will 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 blue nile state that borders. but he 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 are 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 your peers human rights commission both sides have accused the other of violence over the past few years but 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 good so they are targeting us communes farmers to prevent us from farming we don't want to give them our land so they launch attacks on us because we are weak. since november authorities say more than 7000 people have arrived in the state. this by being here for 3 months refugees they 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 hold easier the more you know as long as the fighting continues on the other side more refugees will come were no racing against time because it it

will it will be the start of the rainy season where the refugees are already hard to reach 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 you. at least 75 people have died and hundreds are still missing and democratic republic of congo after a boat capsized this happened late on sunday on the congo river near lake. a vessel was traveling from the capital kinshasa to equator province the government says the boat was overloaded 5 people have been sentenced to death for the murder of an author in bangladesh of egypt roy who was hacked to death outside a bookstore in 2000 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 blockers australia's prime minister scott morrison has apologized to a woman who says she was raped in the parliament building 2 years ago former government staffer brittany higgins says the attack was carried out by a colleague in the defense minister's office morrison has promised an investigation into the government's workplace culture. i mean that should not have happened. and do apologize that shouldn't happen that's one of i suspect many process issues that stiffly foster will by hype a dignified and ensure that those improvements are money but at the end of the die i want to make sure that any young woman working in this place is a cipher as possible just as i would like my own daughters if i have a child is to go down that path or in whatever workplace diable working in that die

i could have that confidence of this i feel as a father i could have that confidence of sight. now dozens of spanish police of stormed a university and arrested a rap artist who barricaded himself inside to avoid prison public hansell 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 scraps and nicholson has more. thank you this is the moment policed on the catalan university of lagos to arrest pablo hustle the rap artist had barricaded himself into a ward of arrest after being sentenced to 9 months in prison proper criticizing spain's royal family in songs and tweets. as he was led away he even named the farm i don't know the guy they will never make us give him despite the repression was

what i was was just this case is 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 1st european union either rappin either sing in either dance you need or doing whatever you want one child support with history taught from spain's former king kong carlos in raising her son's image in what. it can be that an ashes test is jailed for expressing his ideas i believe that something that is profoundly unfair more than $200.00 authors actors and fund that actors have also signed a petition against his jailing. causeless case has let the government to reform what's known as the gag law that was intended to prevent the glorification of terrorism. 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 but convicted under the law in 20182019. for most of the stuff the artist says he uses rap as a tool for transformation and want to be silenced until the law is scrapped. are just seen from. mr. past the hour and these are the top stories a judge in the netherlands has ruled authorities illegally used emergency powers to impose a nighttime curfew to control covert 19 the dutch prime minister mark ruta has called the decision disappointing but he is urging his citizens to.