to have brought al-jazeera world tells the story of 4 iconic cafes and their old arab societies as products of creativity debate the 2nd secrets of the arrow cafe on al-jazeera. be the hero of the world news. washington. the white house says it will recalibrate u.s. relations with saudi arabia and president biden will communicate with king solomon not his son. i'm norm tate of this is al jazeera live from london also coming up. me and mar

protest as block railway lines as the military denies it carried out a coup and on time suchi is handed a 2nd criminal charge. the dutch prime minister urges people to respect a nighttime curfew despite a court ruling that it should be scrapped. and police arrest a spanish wrap up of the barricaded himself into a university to avoid a jail term for insulting the monarchy and door find terrorism. or the botton administration says its recalibrating its relationship with saudi arabia marking a dramatic shift from the trump presidency white house spokeswoman jen psaki says president joe biden will speak to his counterpart king solomon bin abdulaziz instead of crown prince mohammed bin some on a son in law or former president donald trump jared krishna has developed

a close relationship with m.b.a.'s announcement coincides with the who he's being removed from the u.s. terror nest. let's go to our white house correspondent can be help it can be tell us more about this shift on saudi arabia. well it's a real departure from the relationship that the trumpet ministration had with saudi arabia what the by the administration is signaling is that gone are the days of the united states being an unquestioning ally of the kingdom now there is a reshaping of foreign policy and we saw this being singled late last week and then in previous days when it was announced by the president that he was freezing u.s. arms sales to saudi arabia he was also ending the support the united states has given for the saudi led conflict in yemen but today white house press secretary shinseki went a step further saying that the whole relationship ship between the united states the saudi arabia is under review 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 and yes 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 now a lot of this has to do with some of the pressure domestically that joe biden is under particularly as he was on the campaign trail under the pressure by voters and members of congress who are unhappy with saudi arabia's human rights record particularly when it comes to the journalist so she the previous administration promising that for that murder that the highest levels of the saudi kingdom would be held accountable something that did not happen so this is something that may

have shaped the decision and the review that's underway and can really willis's the u.s. calls on yemen's hoofing rebels to hold on the city of marvin and come to the negotiating table. yeah this isn't all part of the shift of policy in the region by this administration we mentioned that in fact there has been a freeze of arms sales and particularly of concern has been that the use of some of these arms have been in that conflict in given that has been led by the saudi coalition so as a result we now see some very strong words towards the who thiis of course a part of that complex situation in the region now when this lifting of the or rather the freezing of arms was issued what the united states said very clearly was that this is no way condones the behavior of the who thiis in fact they said that the relationship or rather the behavior has been reprehensible will now today the

state department is going to step further issuing a very strong statement towards the who these urging them to cease military operations in the government held city and to turn to negotiations saying that their actions there have not been consistent with peace they've also though said within the they would like them to cease the cross border attacks into saudi arabia so as we're talking about the shift in saudi relations we are also seeing the united states coming to a defense in this what makes it so complex but the bottom line is that the united states says that is concerned about civilians that's why we saw the lifting of the terrorist designation against the who fees by this administration that it was hampering aid they're fearful that the united nations of course has called this a humanitarian crisis in yemen and so as a result we see this call for a ceasing of military activity and a return to discussions something the state department should say in just the last few moments a said is actively going on through what they call back channels in order to try

and achieve a diplomatic solution not a military end to this conflict can be how could thank you very much indeed. meanwhile his military has denied that its takeover was a coup its 1st news conference since taking power it also doubled down on its promise to hold elections without providing evidence that last year's vote was fraudulent it's shut the internet off for the last 2 nights to try to hold on to power it also hit the country's civilian leader with a 2nd criminal charge which could have had to be detained indefinitely she hasn't been seen for more than 2 weeks but the anger among the people remained strong street protests have carried on across the country and it's got harder reports that are paralyzed in the rail network. continuing their civil disobedience

movement at a coup protesters in your don't block 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 its 1st press conference since taking over the military just to justify its actions saying it was not a coup and that the protesters are inciting violence. yet soon unite in the 90. 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 and 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 something 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 walk actions a day after police crackdown on protesters in the 2nd largest city injuring many they came back out in mandalay amid a low key security presence thousands marched on the streets. in yangon buddhist monks joined the protest chanting against the coup and calling for the release of detained leaders some see their participation as bringing moral authority to the movement scott had learned al-jazeera. earlier i spent young john wall a human rights advocate in yangon this is what he had to say about the military's

press conference today and its insistence the takeover isn't a coup. the fact that this military has been saying quite similar thing when they 1st took over the power in 1960 and of course this one here could it could take many many decades and like the any man many other were mis citizens the thing the same and this that despite there is this promise on the on the televisions made by the commander in chief. commanding this kid. there is a 1000 pounds and so people like him that doesn't stop people on the street protesting against that so that's really how down people's perceptions on the promise that has been made by the military and the detained opposition leader aung san suu kyi has been handed another charge what do you think that will mean for her all right the. military would fine and any any excuse or any

make any any possible things to ensure that political leaders will be removed from florida goes the fear and of course the people of the people are not surprised when these cases are made against saddam's sons which is what your experience is of the risks of protesting and a bit about the atmosphere there is. well in the past few days we have hearts that the but the brutal crackdown and resulting casualties and injuring this is a 1000000000 peacefully protesting. in a different part of the of the country and and this for this is not going on in the major cities alone it's going across the country and in a higher momentum as i said and people knew that there is people are seeing this their military trying tank with military vehicles with guns are deployed with the heavy men power across across big cities and small cities and people are still

taking that risk in the hunger of democracy and moving forward this country. from the part that it has taken to what to the democratic transitions this confusion in the netherlands over government mandated coronavirus caffe you due to come into effect in just under an hour that was struck down by a court here on tuesday and to lock down protests is rotted for several days after the curfew was introduced in january the government has asked the court to suspend its decision ahead of an appeal and caretaker prime minister margaret cho has urged people to continue to respect the curfew. you know or at fearless had called the aim is to control the coronavirus as much as possible so that soon we will have all our freedom back but in a safe way that is why we introduced the curfew and that is not changed today that is why i urge everyone should the appeal not result in a suspension of the ruling of the district court judge we hope so but we cannot be

sure that it will do you know how it joins us now live from london to tell us more about what the judge objected to with this curfew neverland. well what seems to have happened here is that getting a promise of market roots and his cabinet decided at some point in generally that because of the emergence of these mutations in the virus the 1st will the u.k. variant and then of course the south africa there needs to be very quickly to clamp down or to tighten their already tight lock down by introducing this curfew which they did on january 23rd the problem is they did it using emergency powers that would enable them to sideline parliament in the senate and therefore no debate no discussion and just put into place that initially for 2 weeks but then they extended it to much the you may recall it gave rise to. down protests across the country at the time well one of those protest groups took their protest to court the court found in their favor on the basis that there was no legal basis for this

law because the government had not acted appropriately instructed down what's now happening is that the governments that will look you know this is a problem clearly for us in terms of maintaining our lockdown in our lockdown strategy can you suspend this verdict pending the outcome of a full appeal which they plan to launch and we await in the next hour or so before of course the lockdown is due to come into place tonight a decision by this panel of judges as to whether or not to suspend voting whether or not the lockdown should go ahead of course is that it's worrying for the government they've got this virus out there got a variance out there that not a vaccine out there but it's not coming on board nearly fast enough and they will be very keen to try and keep a tight lid of the lockdown that they've already got in this and get it here in the u.k. 1700000 more people are told to shield to protect themselves from serious side effects and have 900. yes well you know similar dynamics here except slightly in reverse we

have got the vaccine in the u.k. he's being rolled out but of course there are still several months ahead and an uncertain future beyond that with these variants around vaccine effort is what will or will not get through in time to come so there is still and will always be concern about vulnerable groups $2200000.00 people already on the sort of shielding register that deemed particularly vulnerable to the worst effects of code now scientists from the university of oxford have come up with that predictive risk modeling tool to expand that group of very vulnerable people by basically crunching a lot of data and spitting out a lot of names and then they've expanded the data that they use they're not just looking at age and. things like diseases or underlying health issues or sort of very binary look at who is vulnerable they're now expanding it to take and it take into account socio economic data like ethnicity like postcodes where you live who you live with to cut to try to get a picture of sort of levels of deprivation which we know have fed very heavily into

the negative coded rates so it's a new approach socio economic data being taken to do a play into play which allows more people to be brought into this protective net including for instance black asian and minority ethnic groups we know that their communities have been very heavily affected many a key workers or essential workers many live in multigenerational households well now they can be deemed. people who need to sheild they can be given specific advice about their risk conditions and most importantly they can be given priority access to the vaccine if indeed their own head access to it yet can help thank you very much indeed. still to come this half hour a former central african republic football official and a rebel nicknamed rambo deny multiple counts of war crimes as they go on trial at the international criminal court. and a vision for bitcoin as the cryptocurrency surges past another record and towards the mainstream.

well thought is underway in that part of you has been freezing for a couple of weeks it's the atlantic group providing that warm relatively speaking that was monday's front this is coming in through tuesday so over time we get to wednesday there's a bit of a block here through poland but cold air is hard to push out of the way there's be a line of snow stretching down through ukraine and down towards well probably rumania south of that it's already been snowing that things are slowly improving greece and turkey and behind the improvement is in temperatures rather than anything else the yellow represents temperature risen significantly in the last 2 days alone so burdened up 7 london to about 11 o'clock that does mean to be some rain it was mostly not now the weather in greece has been at least worst for 12

years and the point of view of snow we're talking about just north of athens on those video pictures and that's gone by the time it gets through most of wednesday's turkey to get it leaving that's going eastwood's so then the focus is further south that cold wind which is becoming larger through the g. and is certainly wrapped up into a storm system which will affect northern egypt and the levant now mislead by thursday even that's improved although look at the snow still possible in the lebanese mountains. welcome to doha from every one of us. even those working quietly behind the scenes. so you can relax enjoy the perfect break in your journey. body. and when you leave with a smile we know law day's work is done qatar airways welcome to our home.

are marked for top stories here are 0 biden administration says it's recalibrating its relationship with saudi arabia marking a dramatic shift from the trump presidency the white house has confirmed president joe biden will deal with king solomon bin abilities instead of his son crown prince mohammed bin some own. military says its takeover was not a coup and has again pledge to hold elections its 1st compress news conference in seizing power to pose to civilian need to understand suci has been charged with a 2nd crime. and

a court in the netherlands has ordered that the controversial nighttime curfew to stop the spread of covert 19 should be scrapped the government has asked the court to suspend its decision had an appeal and urged people to keep respect to the restrictions. investigations been launched in peru to find out why nearly 500 people including many government officials were secretly vaccinated ahead of health workers former president martinelli scar has apologized after it was revealed that he and his wife received sunday from injections in october and the country is now on to its 6th foreign minister in less than a year after elizabeth state it resigned from the post when it emerged she had also been given a secret dose marianna sanchez joins us live now from peru marina how did all this happen and how big is the scandal. it's a huge scandal laura and it's already being talked about it as vaccine gate of the

foreign ministry minister that you just mentioned she explained that that she couldn't afford getting sick and that's why she got the vaccine secretly the health minister who resigned last week after the scandal broke that former president to have received a dose for him and other for his wife and his brother she resigned but just a few days before that she had been telling the public that how the vaccines that were to arrive soon in the country were going to be distributed and she said that she was the captain of the ship and the captain of the ship was going to be the last one to be vaccinated and only 2 days after that she received that job secretly now she explains that she got very afraid of course the 2nd wave here is taking a huge toll and morally a huge toll on peruvians to learn that nearly 500 peruvians with

a name with their names on a list that we know of now have been taking have taken this vaccine secretly the way it worked is that peru got 12000. vaccines and placebos last year for the trials and all and there was a $3200.00 vaccines that were active. now the director of the trial is telling. congress and so those are the vaccines that have been secretly distributed among many people from the health ministry the foreign ministry friends there are we are learning that there is a businessman there's a restaurant owners there's. doctors who have brought not only their their wives or their or their. husbands by their siblings or their their in-laws at 30 it's a huge is

a huge scandal here and also lauren we need to know what happened to the rest of those axioms because that we're talking about 3200 of them the chinese embassy has taken we learned about 800 we have to know what happened to those 2 those vaccines are they giving have have they given them out to friends are they keeping them there what is going on and also there's about between $5750.00 is a we don't know what is what has happened to those to those to those vaccines were they sold that somebody make a profit out of those but what is the worst part perhaps of this scandal is that those after the scenes were not offered to the more than $300.00 doctors that have died during the pandemic not only doctors lauren but paramedics and nurses and policemen and thousands of people who have been on the front lines on our on the

front lines of this pandemic in peru and they were not offered the vaccine they were taken by people who had nothing to do with a fight against a pandemic virus sanchez thank you very much indeed. 2 former leaders of a rebel group in the central african republic have denied committing war crimes 7 years ago as the country descended into civil war prosecutors say alfred a rebel leader known as rambo and former football official at least in one case owner were senior leaders of the mainly christian anti baloch a movement that targeted muslim civilians in a campaign of violence after muslim silica rebels seized power in 2013 their alleged crimes include torture murder and rape your tom was arrested in 2018 after firing a gun in central african republic parliament he says he was then tortured you know so now was detained a month later in france step bason reports from the hague outside diego tom

and but these. listened quietly when the long list of charges was read out murder rape recruitment of child soldiers they both unite any involvement pursuit of. mr president i repeat and i don't recognize myself in the i think it was a sin against me i am not guilty. but prosecutors say they have overwhelming evidence that you got tom and i saw and i have led the ante bellum movement in a campaign meant to remove the muslim population from the country yet almost known as command the ramble and i saw not a right hand man of former president francois boise's or as the organizer. as the evidence will show his participation in the strategy was integral and he contributed to it fully aware that the group he was helping the structure our finance instruct and organise was known by september 2013 as the.

would inevitably target the most in civilian population in western. the violence started in 2013 after muslim rebels from the seleka group forced former president both these out of power in revenge and balata groups killed thousands of muslims and forced more than $1000000.00 from their homes when i'm 1400 victims are expected to take part in this trial a trial that will be closely watched in central african republic the message from the i.c.c. is clear no more impunity for those involved in these crimes but the question is how this message where we were saved by doe still involved in the fighting rebel groups have again taken control of a part of central african republic after the presidential election last december the government has accused beauties of being behind of violence and he's now being investigated for rebellion when we are still looking for how the rebel leaders the militia leaders will react. with. i.c.c.

for him to give your limited trust is that they are committing against the population of conversely. the only way for them to remain safe is to continue their criminal activity it defense is yet to make their opening statements the leader of the celica militias also in custody of the i.c.c. showing that the court is serious in holding both sides accountable step fasten al-jazeera the hague. the president of france has ruled out an immediate reduction of french troops fighting armed groups linked to al qaida and eisel in the sahara in one year michael told leaders of the region's 5 nations at an online summit that cutting numbers suddenly would be a mistake but he pointed out that a likely reduction would follow chad says it will deploy more than a 1000 troops to bolster the french presence of more than $5000.00 he also indicated that other european nations could get involved said clearly the lute

concluded would be the absolute priority of our military strategy is to continue our fight against terrorist group is this will be achieved with the strengthening of the joints a whole force which is already made immense progress our intention now is to strengthen this 5 force with sustained funding. a spanish rap artist who knocked him self inside a catamaran university to avoid a prison sentence has been arrested or has had to held out against a deadline to hand him self in following a 2018 conviction for insulting them on a cape and praising the armed separatist group better we will call soon report. this is the moment police stormed the catalan university of lagos to arrest pablo hustle the rap artist had barricaded himself in toward the west after being sentenced to 9 months in prison procrit a sizing spain's royal family in songs and tweets. as he was led away even maimed

to find i don't know the they will never make us give in despite the repression was the right. justice cases inspired support across the country last week dozens of demonstrators rallied in madrid demanding his freedom. first of all i think it's all right. well express your opinion either rappin either sing in either dance you need or doing whatever you want one child support with history taught for in spain's former king kong carlos in raising hustles image the more. difficult it can be that an artist 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. scase 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 most part the artist says he uses rap as a tool for transformation and want to be silenced until the law is scrapped my concerns are just. mr. bitcoin has reached a new record high of $50000.00 per coin a crypto currency has risen 70 percent this year alone thanks in part to backing from major companies like iran musk's tesla and mastercard during 2020 its value rocketed 300 percent regulators warn the digital currency is still

a risky investment as prices can change fast i think anyone who would say that there is an anxiety around the prices on the night big corn or any of the crew or any other or coins would be kidding themselves or just or just lying the this this is an instrument of the potential to make massive moves to the upside and equally must have moved to the downside so i think there's always going to be a sense of anxiety around the price of something because ultimately housing a fair value. the top stories are not as there the biden administration says its recalibrating its relationship with saudi arabia marking a dramatic shift from the trunk presidency white house spokeswoman jen psaki says president joe biden will speak to his counterpart king solomon bin abdulaziz instead of crown prince mohammed bin soundman son and or former president donald

trump jared krishna had developed across a close relationship with the crown prince we've made clear.