no space for sound bites only television so let's leave simplicity to the headlines join me as i take on the law dismantle the misconceptions and debate the contradiction. i'm marc lamont hill and it's time to get out front right here on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. 1800 hours g.m.t. here on al-jazeera hello i'm come on santa maria welcome to the news hour the dutch government has its citizens to respect the coronavirus restrictions that is after a court order and it cannot time curfew also in the news another charge filed against unsung suchi by a 1000000 miles military giunta as china says the situation is absolutely not but

it wants to see. the white house says that it will recalibrate its relationship with saudi arabia but still expressing differences with necessary. resignations and apologies in perth following revelations senior ministers secretly received coronavirus vaccinations. i'm jammin ash with scores of major boxing qualifying tournament for the take and impact has been cancelled it cheats the pandemic and defending champion a joke of it fails the pressure of every just the semifinals of the australian open . however let's start with coronavirus news out of europe and the nighttime curfew the one which brought all those dutch demonstrators out onto the streets is officially no more a judge in the netherlands has ruled or 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 called the ruling disappointing they said the measures had been necessary to reduce the number of covert 19 infections he says the government will appeal the decision and then work on a new law journalist covering the story for us this tuesday. jonah how are you let's talk through what has happened today in the fact that well i guess there will be a lot of people who are concerned that if you lift the nighttime curfew then the numbers could start to spike again. not least the government of course this will be a big blow to their plans to try and suppress the virus not least they've moved televisions of the virus as the vaccine rather that progress is an offense a lot of press space across the. if they go on as you say struck down by the court it remains to be seed know whether that's not done if you will in fact not go ahead it's night and that's because there is a hearing due in the next couple of hours on the government request to suspend the

verdict pending the outcome of the full appeal of the government bans a lot of panel of judges will decide on that a little later but to take you back this was a measure that was brought in on the 23rd of january it was only meant to be they expect 2 weeks at the government to tackle this new strain and mutation of the virus that was then extended to march the recall there were protests across the country by antilock and groups one of those anti lock down groups called virus truth took the matter to court saying that the measure was an unwarranted limitation on personal freedom the court has found in their favor although on the basis that the measure simply doesn't do it did not have a basis in law because the government hadn't had not followed procedure they've used emergency powers to circumvent parliament in the senate to push this law through the courts said that they have done so without adequate need all the reason to do so to use those powers in other words at this point in the pan there the

government plans to appeal as we know mark root of the prime minister gave a televised press conference shortly after the verdict earlier today and as you pointed out he said we're pleased by by the law and continue to abide by the curfew thank you jonah hill with that news from the netherlands we're going to speak to a guest about this a moment but i just want to show you some numbers 1st of all from johns hopkins university this is specific to the netherlands we've changed the numbers this hour to show you from the last month 120. 1000 new cases in the last month down from a record high of 276000 in december and the number of deaths approaching 1100 down from a high of 3771 so just to give you an idea of where the numbers have been for this past month keep that in mind as we speak to jeff lazarus who's head of health systems at the bus alone or institute for global health was also a former senior technical officer at the w.h.o.

in europe joining us from copenhagen mr lazarus thank you for your time as i read those numbers that's what the government will say look in the last month we've kept things down it has helped and yet the court has now stepped in and effectively it becomes an argument between health or civil liberties and freedoms now i mean how do you decide which should win out well i'm not sure that the economy is exactly how i would highly put it the court ruled that the government procedure so the government has the ability as emergency powers to do decisions in an emergency situation which it did earlier this year now some weeks passed and the court is saying you need to follow the procedures which means taking this to parliament and having the appropriate law to allow for nighttime curfew so you think it can come back then i mean we've heard that the. prime minister has said he plans to appeal if it's done properly or such. i think it can come back and i'm not sure i'm not an

expert on law that it will come back to the appeal i think that the main focus of the appeal will be to keep the curfew in place until the parliament meets but i think the parliament needs to meet follow the rule of law are i mean they have good reasons they have good data as you just showed it for what it is working in 100 years is you know one part of the mix of you know control measures that government implementing it's not the only thing that helps but it's and it does play an important role so let me go back to my original point which i made he got a little bit wrong to do with the netherlands but let's widen out to talk about europe in general the fact that yes a lot of countries are now into a 2nd or 3rd lock down and yes it's frustrating it's specially in the in the depths of of winter. but again that argument between what is good for for trying to squash this virus as best as possible versus what people would like i

mean you can't you can't negotiate with a virus kenya. you can't and we have to remember the netherlands was after the country that started last in the european union with the nation so they were not a good start this year and we know their vaccinations will be crucial in mitigating the pandemic and until we get those numbers up and they are very very low in europe or the united kingdom until we get those numbers up we're going to have to have a whole lot or a pandemic control measures which unfortunately reply all of us means you know closing shops and schools and so on i wonder if you think it's maybe a little risque the likes of sidebars johnson who's talking about the current lockdown in the u.k. and saying well we're not promising anything but we want this one to be the last one that sort of risk of raising people's hopes i think all finally this will be it when really we don't know. well i think it's fair to say we wanted to be the last

one and we hope it will be the last one in the u.k. is moving very quickly with the vaccination program much faster than then the use you know that once we get up to that community or herd immunity of around 7580 percent vaccinated we can we can really say goodbye and with the downs but even even before then we can start to lessen the lockdowns in those areas as green zones that then are you know suppressed new cases and don't have people with severe symptoms speaking of vaccinations what's going on in europe at the moment why is it still so far behind in the end do you think that the right measures are in place to turn that around. well we're far behind in europe because right now we simply don't have enough vaccines we don't have enough dosages most countries are back sitting at a reasonable rate we've had delays from pfizer we've had delays. now we've had major delays with astra zeneca production issues so i'm europeans to really after

it's production and distribution infrastructure to the companies and start producing the vaccine as as fast as as we can. just lazarus with the barcelona institute for global health and formerly with the w.h.o. great to talk to you thank you for your time thank you. for a looking at news out of the united states at the moment where the white house has in the last half hour or so been outlining a change in u.s. relations with saudi arabia straight to. kennedy halkett white house correspondent to what's been said kimberly. now white house press secretary jim psaki asked specifically about the relationship between the united states and saudi arabia signaling that it is going through a major change in fact there will no longer be an unquestioning by this administration as we saw with the troubled ministration towards the kingdom but

instead she said that they will be looking and at reevaluating this relationship we certainly had heard that there was going to be a bit of a shift we've already seen some of that taking place last week we saw the biden ministration announcing not only a freeze in some arms sales to the kingdom but also ending u.s. support for the saudi led conflict in yemen but now the white house press secretary saying that it's going much further we've made clear from the beginning that we're going to recalibrate our relationship with. saudi arabia and that you know president biden one of the questions there was also just to go back to the context of it whether he would be speaking with b.s. and part of that is going back to engagement counterpart to counterpart the president's counterpart is king someone and i expect at an appropriate time he would have a conversation with him kimberly you mentioned briefly the change in policy over

yemen as well and there's been developments there the united states. have to come to the table effectively. yeah the crux of this is is a concern for human rights and humanitarian concerns the concern with the kingdom has been its attitude towards human rights particularly the fact that many in the united states and of the democratic party believe that it was not held accountable for the murder of samantha shows she and those same people are also very concerned about civilians in yemen and the effects of the southerland conflict there which the united nations has called the humanitarian disaster and also the fact that up until now the u.s. has been supporting that so what we've seen is this sort of shift in policy with respect to one of the players in that conflict in yemen who thinks we already know that as of last week the designation with respect to that terrorist designation of

the who things had been revoked something that was put into the 11th hour by the trumpet ministration now that biden administration as of today sending out a very strongly worded statement to the who thinks urging them to cease their military operations in the government held city of mariupol and to turn to negotiations what this administration believes is there is no military solution and the time to end this conflict is now that is the statement coming out of the state department so as you can see a number of actions strongly worded from the biden administration making it very clear to a number of players in the region that the president have changed and so will the policy of the united states thank you kimberly how could the white house this tuesday. on to other news man miles military which has actually 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 seize power and

then moments later the lawyer for deposed said the military had filed another charge against the details now it's. continuing their civil disobedience movement who protesters blocked train services out of instant railway station one of the city's largest. 6 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. 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 nighttime 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 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 protest try to occupy those buildings or prevent. a walk us 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 toddler al jazeera more with if you go paula now who's also following developments from hong kong it's a pretty bold claim isn't it devious for the military to come out and say no this wasn't a coup because looks a lot like a cur. was largely expected they were justifying their actions on february 1st and they're also justifying detaining suchi and her allies it of course does not reassure the protesters in any way of can continue their movement though not necessarily in the large numbers we saw last week but more for a civil disobedience targeted movement and we're seeing more professionals join this movement including medical personnel and that's what the protests are it's one to they're also approaching government buildings government workers trying to

instigate work stoppages what they're trying to do is top government functions and they believe that this is what's going to get the attention of the tatmadaw the military government they also have instigated a boy caught. entities and businesses which the military gente have members would profit from or even own as many of much of me and ours economies intermingled with the military government so despite the fact that the military spokesperson for the 1st time at length try to explain what their vision was and that there was going to be elections it didn't seem to appease the protesters in any way to film also interested in what china has been saying today at least china's ambassador to me and he gave an interview and was essentially saying look we didn't know about any of this and this is not what we want.

absolutely he was very quick to say that and he also wanted to point out that china had friendly relations with both the military government and. the government and party they also did or very also made a point of saying that you know china was very much. interested in maintaining stability in the region while the western countries were very quick to condemn the coup china stood back saying that you know stability was more important they also dismissed claims that china was involved in the coup in any way as rumors around this have been rife people have been talking on the ground have surrounded the. chinese embassy in gone and recent protests saying that china was involved saying that they were providing technical assistance to the military and to try to

the internet shutdowns that we've seen over the past few days and incidentally our source on the ground has told us that tonight again will see a 3rd consecutive night of internet shutdown from 1 am local to 9 am but it goes back to china china dismissed those call that nonsense saying they had nothing to do with it and in fact during the military spokespersons press conference they also addressed that issue saying that they did not need china's help myanmar has its own technicians should they want to put up their own fire wall ok devika poland keeping us up to date with the situation in myanmar thank you we are 18 minutes past the hour here's what's coming up iran denies any ties with iraq a group that's claimed responsibility for an attack on u.s. led forces in the kurdish capital. charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity but 2 former politicians from the central african republic to refute the allegations of the international criminal court and it's messy versus. pass

a loan or take on p.s.g. in the last 16 of the european champions league we'll have your sport a little later. more on that story from iraq where the 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 a stationed a little known group claims to have targeted a military base iran is done denying any ties with it on foreign contractors killed and several others wounded including a u.s. serviceman. has 11 saeed analyst at the middle east research institute who we spoke to he says iraq's armed groups have become increasingly fractured. this is quite a new all grew up with this believe it to be emerged in the last 2 or 3 months and

is probably a part of the wind there are sheet and militia. forces which i believe it. was iran to devolve and trying to subdue enter into various. various groups has and different name and so that they and her responsibility and accountability when they conduct such kinds of aipac and whether it is against you watching. the u.s. forces or looking arkwright at the bank like you don't want to be so yes really in this was really not a surprise will seem these kinds of attack is built the death package are real just 5 months ago but that's why the rocket attack was not that's accurate this one there were only lead 77 rockets that. ariel airport but

these attacks from last night appears to be more sophisticated what accurate and they were much larger in the terms of numbers. the french president emanuel micron's pledged to step up efforts to fight al qaeda linked groups in the south how the region of africa mccomas speaking on a video link to the presidents of the g. 5 nations in this case became a facet of mali are attaining and chad he called on international partners to provide long term financing for subtle forces said clearly the loot concluded would deal with 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 is already made immense progress our intention now is to strengthen this g 5 force with sustained funding. 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 tom and patty said while it gets on the began at the international criminal court on tuesday they're accused of targeting muslims in a campaign of torture murder and rape as is often 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 religious national or ethnic affiliation were perceived as collectively responsible for complicit with and supportive of the telic you will hear this referred to is 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 wrapping it up for us from the hague a step faster. 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 and long 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 ante bellum 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 to democracy activists in hong kong or pleaded guilty to organizing an illegal assembly back in $29.00 team 7 others deny the charges including media tycoon jimmy lai martin lee who is known as hong kong's father of democracy the trials are related to a demonstration in august 29th him against beijing's influence you might remember this rally which drew nearly 2000000 people critics over charges that just proof the government is ruling through fear that we were. right every

comma problem or. some other rule of law won't go wrong. student protesters in new delhi are demanding the release of climate activists the. indian police charged with sedition and linked to the swedish climate campaign. the 22 year olds accused of creating an action plan that police say was used to foment violence during the farmers rally last month says the thousands of farmers have been protesting for weeks now against new laws which they say benefit large private buyers at their expense protests also took place in ravi's hometown of bangalore 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 during india's republic day last month when

protesting farmers tore down barricades and raised a religious flag of the red ford in new delhi. how does delhi. not find the actual culprit who disrespect the national monument on 26. and all of a sudden. and comes all the way from delhi to one student. as far as douches wrist 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 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 and sentenced to 5 days in police custody it's a myth when people say they would description seize with the wrist. plenty more coming up here they'll be a check on the world weather and then well this frigid winter storm sweeping

through parts of the u.s. it's brought subzero temperatures and left millions in the dark and india's cricket has wrapped up a huge win over england in the 2nd test that is in a sport with gemma a little later. well as 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 you corrupt it raw and it's still windy and cold in north in egypt showery as far south as golan heights it could be

snows that in the lebanese mountains 6 degrees in jerusalem now watch kuwait as us think this thing comes south as the wind direction will change down to 19 degrees on a sunday and that rain is on its way down through towards bahrain and probably cut or so in the middle of saudi during late thursday or early friday and as 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 will 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. they may not be top of the table. they might not have the biggest stadium.

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0. 0. here on the news here at al-jazeera these are up top stories a judge in the netherlands has rolled up his illegally used emergency powers report was a nighttime curfew to control covert 19 the dutch prime minister called the decision disappointing and is urging citizens to continue respecting the restrictions. the white house says president biden plans to recalibrate relations with saudi arabia the white house spokesperson also said biden is expected to communicate with. rather than the crown prince. mean most militaries been denying carrying out. and actually pledging again to hold elections next year a spokesman for the armed forces says they had no choice but to seize power protest

against the military takeover are now in their 11th day. now the world health organization says a bowl of vaccines are on their way to guinea to deal with a new outbreak of the disease 5 people have died 2 more of tested positive 10 others have symptoms this outbreak linked to a funeral in early february and authorities are trying to track down anyone who's had contact with those infections. peru's former president has apologized after it was revealed he and his wife was secretly vaccinated ahead of health workers an investigation has been launched to find out why nearly 500 people including senior government officials got the job early on sunday the foreign minister resigned after demerged she'd been given a secret to the capital lima and marianna son says marianna quite simply this is not a good look. it's already

known vaccine gate here in peru and it's not a small thing it's a really big scandal not only because former president martini's kyra accepted to get a vaccine regularly. and another one for his wife and for his older brother this happened last year when the 1st trial was beginning here in peru at the scene a farm the chinese pharmaceutical company was doing this trial here with 12000. doses here one batch one lot was the vaccine the other one was the placebo and there are those there was a 3rd lot of 3200 vaccines that. the director of the of the trial here said they were active and that the president knew that they were active but he's got a call him and ask him to bring those sex scenes over to the presidential palace and that's where he was he not you laid it and the doctor said that he didn't think

it was about thing because he discovered was that the front line of the. of the fight against the pandemic however this was not what happened with the rest of the vaccines because it was not given to it was 1st given to the wife but also to many other people who really. it was not supposed to get to that we are seen that. members of people that work at the health ministry and the 4 news 3 that were making the deal with seen a farm had their families saw daughters. siblings wives husbands in laws vaccinated also we were learning that their restaurant owners business people lawyers and a number of people 487 of the list that we know of the all of that big lot that

arrived $800.00 of those vaccines went to the chinese embassy we need to know what happened to those and also there's about $700.00 left we don't know what happened but what didn't happen a camel is those vaccines that we know that were active there were not offered to these people these are the nearly 300 doctors that have died during the pandemic we're not even counting the nurses the people that work in hospitals the police the paramedics and so on people who are at the front lines of the pandemic they were not offered that magazine and there's now $43000.00 peruvians officially dead and the advance death rate says that there are more than 100000 peruvians that so it's not only very sad but very shameful for many peruvians here extraordinary revelations coming out of peru thank you for that money and sunshine. south africa

has said it will give its batch of the oxford astra zeneca covert 9000 vaccine to the african union to distribute elsewhere in the constant they said african government suspended its rollout of that fact saying off to one study suggested it offered limited protection against the new variant which is prevalent in south africa it's now waiting on delivery of the yet to be approved johnson and johnson vaccine. still with vaccines hungary's become the 1st e.u. country to receive the chinese made coronavirus vaccines a jet carrying 550000 doses developed by this chinese state owned company sign a farm arrived in budapest on tuesday as shipments enough to treat 275000 people hungry expecting 4 and a half 1000000 more doses from sign of farm one of the 3 companies making vaccines in china meanwhile israel's been vaccinating its population of 9000000 against the corona virus faster than any country but only

a few 100 palestinians have been inoculated and the palestinian authority says israel is it stopped 2000 vaccines from being delivered to the hamas controlled gaza strip and ibrahim reports from the occupied west bank. the miser wakes up each day before dawn even crosses into israel from the occupied west bank to go to work he hasn't been vaccinated against covered 19 and is scared of contracting the virus but says this is his only way to make a living. our israeli supervisors were vaccinated and i asked my boss if they would give us the vaccine but he told me go and ask your palestinian authority to give it to you. israel has inoculated a few 100 palestinian workers but only after an appeal by a union of construction companies. but thousands of palestinians continue to cross through openings into separation barrier despite the risk of catching up fires that

knows no borders those who sneak through say israeli authorities are turning a blind eye mainly for economy cretins. palestinians it's an added complication in dealing with the pandemic in the west bank thousands of vaccine doses were expected to arrive in mid february but so far only a few 100 people have been inoculated on monday israel blocked a shipment of vaccines acquired by the palestinian authority from entering the gaza strip israel says this was a political decision not a humanitarian one israel has a large number of unused vaccines but has only some the palestinians 2000 jobs the government says it is not its responsibility we have an agreement with the palestinians whereby and if you allow me i would like to quote it it's it's from the oslo agreement palos and responsibilities in the sphere of health in the west

bank and the girls will strip would be transferred to the palestinian side but international humanitarian law makes an occupying power responsibly for the entire population israel holds effective control over the population even with. them as government by the palestinians both the west bank and gaza. israel controls a very aspect of palestinian life without vaccinations the palestinian authority is resorting to some or stiction is a movement that's one of the few measures that has control over but political leaders feared more closures will affect their popularity in the upcoming elections almost a year after the 1st cases of covered 19 were detected here one thing is very clear it's the palestinian people who are suffering both from any restriction that. the occupied west bank. gaza's top judge has agreed to revise

a recent court ruling that bars women from traveling without permission from a male guardian husband or father for example protesters gathered outside the judge's office earlier on tuesday calling the new rule of violation of women's dignity and rights but it's unclear at this stage how the law will be redrafted a mass leaders have repeatedly said there are no plans to impose islamic law on the gaza strip $2000000.00 residents. thousands of ethiopians from the benefit of the 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. aid agencies are worried about getting just the basic supplies to those who've left their homes with barely anything in 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 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 or there. and how who they came out to talk to us the civilians the hume to our village at night and so is it killing us people who are earning in all directions parents and children separated from each other after 2 of these ones into the bush others with an 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 his human rights commission both sides have accused the other of violence over the past few years but 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 so they are targeting us communes farms 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 despite 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. the more your as long as fighting continues on the other side more refugees will come were no racing against time because it april it will 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 but 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. been a russian police service raided the homes of journalists and activists as the crackdown on anti-government protests intensifies members of the independent belorussian association of journalists and the rights group $96.00 say their homes were searched by officers on tuesday will the 33000 people have been detained

during mass rallies against a disputed election going back to last august when president alexander lukashenko won a 6 term in office. dozens of spanish police have stormed a university and arrested a rap artist who barricaded himself inside to avoid prison. probably housel 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 or mickelson has. this is the moment police stormed the catalan university of lagos to arrest pablo hustle the rap artist had barricaded himself into a wide 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 a given despite the repression was the right.

us 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 for us your opinion 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 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. causeless case has let 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 but convicted under the law in 20182019. for most in the last part the artist says he uses rap as a tool for transformation and want to be silenced until the law is scrapped. are just seems wrong to mr. the united states has extended a program to protect homeowners struggling from the economic effects of coronavirus the white house is giving an extra 6 month buffer banning foreclosures until the end of june the previous deadline was set to expire of the end of march more than $10000000.00 americans are now behind on their mortgage payments a similar plan protecting renters is still set to run out next month both are still in the u.s. a tornado struck the state of north carolina killing at least 3 people the twister

touched down in brunswick county in the south just after midnight dozens of properties destroyed and thousands are without power rescue teams are searching for people who have been reported missing meanwhile this is texas it's recorded some of its coldest temperatures in more than 30 years demand for electricity has led to widespread blackouts more than 150000000 americans are facing some sort of winter storm warning now bitcoin is continued its streak of record breaking rises reaching a new high of $50000.00 a unit the cryptocurrency seen a 70 percent boost so far this year thanks in part due to backing from major companies are the likes of tesla and master card that was after the huge 300 percent rise that it had in 2020 cryptocurrency is a decentralized digital medium encrypted and based on block technology. sport is

still the common story of williams is not just 2 wins away from a record equalling 24th grand slam gemma's along an amount.

of. time for some sport on the newshour his gemma. thanks kamau defending champion novak djokovic has fought through to the semifinals of the australian open while in the women's roles arena with him set up a meeting in the last 4 with nary a saka to our guys are off scot wraps up the action. no one could say that the

top seed has had it easy at this year's australian open not only has a joke which been carrying an abdominal injury his last 4 matches including this quarter final showdown against alexander sparrow have gone to 4 sets or war with his german opponent having taken the opening set 75 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 of the arab world that reckon things started to shift a little bit for meaning you know in a positive direction. joke of it will now play aslam cats who continued his sensational run at the australian open the russian qualifier whose ranked 114th was

up against grigor dimitrov needed a 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 with a 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 pairs 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 were think we both have closure we've reached out to each other have definitely reached out and she's . so of the core it's hard i think she's she's a good 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. is laid on messi up against kerry and i'm back in the champ. this evening as boss elaine to take on paris in the last 16 after a rocky start on the coach ronald came in boston his form has picked up they've

lost just one of the last 18 matches and believes they can still compete with the best teams in europe doesn't sound too optimistic about their chances of winning the competition i don't see order teams much better than barcelona but i think it's not it's not good if you are changing a lot of things in the team if you playing with young players then to expect that we will do we'll win the champions league i think that's not not not true and that's not good but still we have a good team. former boss a star maemo white be lining up the past year against his former club because he's out injured last time the size better than a camp in 2017 p.s.g. with thumped 61 that was despite arriving in spain with a 4 no later from the fest leg. history is history has but we are a different group with different players which happened in the past have been in the past and recounting results but we are building

a bit to future and that's the key. the other game of the night sees leipzig play that last 16 home tie against liverpool except they won't be a high the 1st leg being played in budapest hungry that's because germinal sorties denied livable entry to the country due to covert 1000 protocols liverpool won the champions league in 2019 but they're struggling in the premier league right now with only 2 wins in the last 10 games. that you have as you know to produce a little pool 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 forget the situation at home so we need to watch out it's going to be a very close match now to some disruption to france's 6 nations rep be campaign the head coach fabien galatea has tested positive for corona virus france's anti a team went into isolation following another stuff then this positive result all of the players it tested negative on monday and will be tested again on wednesday and

then twice more this week france are top of the 6 nations standings with 2 wins from 2 the pandemic continues it impacts the total here lympics as well a major boxing qualifying tournament has been cancelled because of global travel restrictions it means that the 53 and then pick places that would have been up for grabs were not the end in the ring but instead allocated by world rankings this effects fighters in the africa and asia oceana regions boxes in the americas and europe can still fight for their place is providing that tournament's go ahead. india's cricketers have thrashed england in the 2nd test to level the series at $10.00 once again the visit his couldn't handle the tanning pitch an eye and india's spin bowlers it took over 10 wickets and then kept saying it to 164 all out after making just 134 in the 1st innings india won comprehensively by 317 rounds the 3rd test a day night match starts next wednesday. so i think it was

a good. start or if it's not recent last. we were out. we have to be very honest. we have to be better by the ringback situation that. and for now i'll be back with some more of a thank you gemma finally joe biden is heading to wisconsin later on tuesday his 1st official trip as president wisconsin was one of the key states in his presidential victory has been hit hard by the pandemic so people there are hoping the administration will help them recover from the fallout of john hendren in the wilkie 33. when the focus brothers construction company became the general contractors for the democratic national convention it was a corporate coup when the pandemic forced the convention to go virtual the democrats cancelled the contract and that's about how 2020 went here in wisconsin

last year was a rough year so we're looking forward to tonight when he wanted out we had the vaccine and everything else i would hope it s. and jobs open up and some opportunities definitely open to show their way for a small company like ourselves they're hoping for a better economic climate with a new president who campaigned in wisconsin promising to help minority businesses now joe biden is making his 1st official visit and outside of the washington area here in part to make good on that promise wisconsin lies near the center of the midwest a train ride away from american marketplaces from coast to coast. it exports manufactured goods agriculture and like many rest built cities across the united states has lost factories in jobs to the ravages of the pandemic would depend demick like any other state you know things went downhill so as a result what we saw in 2020 specially in the the 2nd quarter and 3rd quarter of 2020 is that the economy was doing pretty bad he says the state's ability to reopen

shuttered shops and recover depends in part on biden's $1.00 trillion dollars covert 19 rescue plan which includes money for businesses and workers trump won wisconsin narrowly which helped him get to the white house biden won it back for the democrats would not by. a huge margin and wisconsin has shown it could swing right back to the republicans if it doesn't see results from the democratic president. for minority businesses like the phelps brothers expectations are especially high for black business you know hopefully that he can. do what he needs to put the right legislation to borders or work with congress so that we won't be at the bottom of the list all the time. for wisconsin businesses biden's visit is a start they appreciate the high profile attention of the president at the dawn of his term but they'll judge him by his success in turning around the state's

flagging economy john hendren al jazeera milwaukee. news out of. israel's vaccination drive has been the one unqualified success in its often criticized response to code 19 the aim is to vaccinate everyone over the age of 16 by the end of march prime minister benjamin netanyahu is promising israelis that they will be the 1st country in the world to emerge from the pandemic of he's persuaded pfizer to commit to an excel aerated supply of its vaccine in return for

israel being used as a data rich test bed for its efficacy palestinians living in the eastern half of jerusalem the only known israeli citizens getting israeli vaccines the palestinian foreign ministry says israel is neglecting its obligations as an occupying power by not providing vaccines to the 4500000 palestinians in the west bank and gaza. between rich nations and poor ones when it comes to vaccinating populations israel's loan program has outpaced even the richest countries. just how much the palestinians have been left out of the process and how far they've been left behind . a place of love heart to our world social life where intellectuals artists and activists me where i d. is a spark and history has made. america has to argue. to have brought al-jazeera world tells the story of 4 iconic cafes and their own arab societies as objects of

creativity debate the 2nd secrets of the car a cafe on i'll just. be the hero of the world needs. washing ready. the white house says it will recalibrate u.s. relations with saudi arabia and president biden will communicate with king solomon not his son. and our intake of this is al-jazeera ny from london also coming up. to. me in my protest as block railway lines as the military denies it carried out a coup and also search a is handed a 2nd try.