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a 2nd criminal charge. people in neverland are urged to respect a night time curfew after an appeals court suspends an earlier ruling scrapping it . outrage in peru as it's revealed that $487.00 officials including the former president were secretly vaccinated ahead of health workers i'm german ash with sports now playing a man in the last 16 of the champions league out of the latest from that game and defending champion novak djokovic feels the pressure reaches the semifinals of the australian open. bodden and ministrations as it's recalibrating its relationship with saudi arabia marking a turning point from the trump presidency white house spokeswoman jen psaki says president joe biden will speak to king solomon been instead of crown prince

mohammed bin. it's a dramatic shift from the approach of former president donald trump whose son in orchard befriended to the crown prince. 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 us and part of that is going back to engagement counterpart to counterpart the president's counterpart is can someone and i expect that an appropriate time he would have a conversation with him as close to mike hanna who's in washington d.c. as you might tell us more about that shift on saudi arabia. well it's a very fundamental shift and one which has been signaled since the biden administration took over power essentially it's shifting the relationship from what

it has been in the past 4 years a transsexual one essentially president treating saudi arabia as what he called an ally since the biden administration has come to power that phrase is now a security part and it's effectively being downgraded the fact that the white house is now stressing that relations or conversations will be conducted on a counterpart to counterpart basis another a very significant shift the biden the ministration signaling that it will talk to king solomon not to the crown prince his son now in the under the trumpet ministration the crown prince was the conduit between the then white house and the saudi government so this is a major shift as well also the other element that we've seen in the last few weeks of the biden administration's relations with saudi arabia is a focus in honing in on the human rights issues it's reviewing arms sales to the saudis something that both his relationship on and it is instead focusing on human

rights issues and already there's been a response saudi arabia has released in recent weeks a number of political prisoners also some women that it could be held in detention so certainly there is a shift in the axis of relations between the u.s. and saudi arabia and all this is the u.s. has been calling on yemen's rebels to hold their advance on the city of marea been and come to the negotiating table to end the war there. well very much so that by the administration taking a measured response to developments in the region 1st of all it is now removed the terrorist evolution that the trump administration put on the hutus in the last few days of his governance but at the same time you've got the state department issuing a very strongly worded statement today calling on the hutus to stop their advance on the government own city and to rejoin the international peace negotiations under the leadership of the united nations now that's state department spokesman ed price

is a well known expert very thoroughly versed in the politics of that particular region so on the $1.00 side you've got the upright and the ministration stepping down any military support for the salvia things of against the u.s. at the same time taking a strong step to preserve the cooties into stopping the violence and to rejoining the negotiation process so certainly this is a measured balanced response as a biden ministration attempts to navigate these exceedingly complicated waters i can i thank you very much indeed p.j. crowley served as u.s. assistant secretary of state for public affairs under president obama he joins us now by skype from alexandria virginia thanks very much indeed for being with us just to go back to the what they're describing is recalibration of the relationship with saudi arabia and in particular this business of counterpart to counterpart engagement biden president biden talking to king solomon rather than the crown prince what what how do you assess the significance of that in particular. well i

think it's going back to the way things normally are obviously jarrett krishna is gone he was unique in a role not just as a u.s. envoy as a family on voice so now i think that we're going to go back to regular channels presidents talk to kinks and as for mohammedan salma he'll be engaged by probably cabinet secretaries to sectors state the secretary of defense and others do you think that the moves that we've seen already with the u.s. putting some weapon sales on to the kingdom and announcing new efforts to to bring the saudi led war and yemen to an end is that going to provide some impetus for assad to actually end the involvement in yemen. well i think the united states is saying to both saudi arabia the united arab emirates and the cooties there's no military solution to to yemen it's time to back the u.n. process and come to the negotiating table other any potential risks associated with resetting will cuming perhaps the relationship with saudi arabia. i think

recalibration is a very good word on the one hand there are still overlapping interest obviously the united states shares the saudi concern about iran and and the united states continues to support a process that the saudi arabia has quietly supported in terms of normalization of relations between the region and israel on the other hand you know saudi arabia has lost its commanding position as the leading energy supplier in the world of the by demonstration is more focused on energy emissions than energy supply so i do think that and ouse human rights becomes more of a part of the conversation you're going to have yes there are overlapping interests and also yes there are there are areas of concern now must somehow have been some on will be king for a long time in saudi arabia you know i profuse your president could be president

biden could be his successor you know willing to gauge him directly you know but but to the extent that n.b.s. has signaled he say reform or the united states is going to press him to show to have more a more consistent path forward and add to the list play into any kind of relationship that the u.s. might have with iran and key to well the the rivalry between iran and saudi arabia is fundamental to understanding what's going on in the region i think the united states. values the saudi position of strength in the region by the same token ultimately how are we going to solve the challenges in the region we've got to get understanding between saudi arabia and iran you know to share influence across the middle east p.j. crowley thank you very much indeed for 10 time talk to us and i was there thank you you're welcome. i mean mars military has denied that its takeover was

a coup and its 1st news conference since taking power and also double down on its promise to hold elections without providing evidence that last year's vote was fraudulent and shut the internet off for the last 2 nights to try to hold on to power and also hit the country's civilian need to unsign suchi with a 2nd criminal charge which could allow her 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 higher reports they're now paralyzing the rail network. continuing their civil disobedience movement who protesters don't block train services out of incense 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 protestors are inciting violence but i do go to. yet soon in

union 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 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 protest has ramped up pressure by strikes and rallies some feel it might prompt a strong reaction from the military the government it's also. trying to demonstrate. tacitly that they may tolerate the street protests but if the protests try to occupy those buildings or prevent.

a walk us from coming to watch actions a day after police crackdown on protesters in the 2nd largest city injuring many they came back out in mandalay amid a low key security presence thousands marched on the streets. in yangon buddhist monks joined the protest chanting against the coup and calling for the release of detained leaders some see their participation as bringing moral authority to the movement it's got toddler al-jazeera. more human rights advocate in yangon he says people are still willing to protest and protect a young democracy. the fact that it this military has been saying quite similar thing when they 1st took over the power in 1000 back in 1960 and of course this one here could take many many decades and like the any member any other where miss citizens the thing the same and this the despite there is this promise on the on

the televisions made by the commander in chief. commanding this coup there is tons and thousands of people like dozens of people on the streets protesting against that so that's really like 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 had another charge what do you think that will mean for all the. military would find and any any excuse or any make any any possible things to ensure that political leaders will be removed from florida goes a fair and of course that people of the people are not surprised when these cases are made against saddam's sons which is what you experience is of the risks of protesting and a bit about the atmosphere there is. while in the past few days we have hearts that

the but the brutal crackdown and resulting casualties and injuring this it was peacefully protesting. in a different part of the of the country and and this protest 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. coming up on this news hour from london israel celebrates its successful vaccine rollout but is it standing in the way of protection for palestinians. see. protests

erupt in spain after police arrest a rapper who had barricaded himself into a university to avoid a jail term for insulting the monarchy and glorifying terrorism. and head coach of the french rugby team tests positive for corona virus as the squad goes into isolation as coming up with gemma and. an overnight curfew in the netherlands to stop the spread of code 19 remains in place despite a court striking it down earlier on tuesday the judge ruled that the government had been wrong to use emergency powers to impose the night time restrictions and to lock down protesters rioted for several days after the curfew was introduced in january but another court has now decided the restrictions should stay in place until a government appeal is heard on friday caretaker prime minister mark richard has urged people to continue to respect the curfew and. its feelings at all 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 has not changed today that is why i urge everyone said 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. almost 2000000 more people in the u.k. are to be told to shield to protect themselves from cavan 19 a new data tool has identified those who are at high risk of severe disease or death it's based on age and health factors but also on web people live and levels of deprivation as a result 1700000 additional people in england we sent letters asking them to stay at home and get a vaccination try to help us in london and explains more about how people may end up on the list what's new about this is the criteria being used to decide whether

a person is volvo that we should be sure they are not just the sort of binary factors of age and underlying health conditions like disease and so on they're now taking into account 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 play 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 usually associate economic factors as well which means that it's able to include in the net far more people who are not prepared or protected or even recognise the need of protection before including the likes of recreation and minority ethnic groups many of whom are or essential workers many of them live in multigenerational households and many of you have we know been disproportionately affected by endemic up to now south africa plans to give a 1000000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine it had purchased to other countries on

the continent this is the health minister announced that 80000 shots of the johnson and johnson vaccine a due to arrive in the country on tuesday is already mckee's said a road out to health care workers will begin this week and another $500000.00 doses will be delivered over the next 4 weeks south africa poor states astra zeneca roll out after a small trial showed it was less effective against the country's dominant variant. israel has been vaccinating its population of 9000000 against a coronavirus faster than any other country but only a few 100 palestinians have been inoculated so far and the palestinian authority says israel as it will blocked a shipment of vaccines to gaza human rights organizations say the situation must change it abraham reports from the occupied west bank. this is what the miser wakes up each day before dawn he then 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 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 in the separation barrier despite the risk of catching a virus that knows no borders those who sneak through say israeli authorities are turning a blind eye mainly for economy reasons for 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 the 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 of 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'd 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 strip would be transferred to the palestinian side but international humanitarian law makes an occupying power responsible for the entire population israel holds effective control over the pa palestinian population even with. autonomous or a summary government by the palestinians both of us back in gaza. israel controls

a very aspect of palestinian life without vaccinations the palestinian authority is resorting to summer stiction movement as one of the few measures it has control over but political leaders feared more closures will affect their top 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. the occupied west bank and 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 not to mischaracterize apologised after it was revealed that he and his wife received on a farm injections in october and the country is now on to its 6th foreign minister in less than a year after his about a stay to resign from the post when it emerged she'd also been given a secret dose ariana sanchez in lima as more details on the scandal. the

way it worked is that peru got 12000. vaccines and the. last year for the trial and all and there was $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 we are learning that there is a businessman there is a restaurant owners there's. doctors who have brought not only their their wives or their or their husbands but their siblings or their their in-laws at 30 it's a huge is a huge scandal here and also 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 goals that scenes 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 $5714.00 so we don't know what is what has happened to those 2 those 2 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 active vaccines were not offered to the more than 300 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. the world health organization has alerted 6 african countries to watch out for a bowl of cases after a reserve jance of the virus in guinea and the democratic republic of congo it is health agency has confirmed 5 deaths and up to 10 suspected cases in an outbreak 1st announced at the weekend but the r.c. confirmed 4 cases in the northeastern city earlier this month the w.h.o. says vaccines could arrive in guinea within 72 hours but he or she is already begun its inoculation campaign nicholas haq is following developments from dakar in neighboring senegal he asked leave from the alliance for international medical action what challenges health workers face getting the vaccine into the communities . so we work with the travails and the very trying those upon not to distribute the vaccine on the ground. i think what is very important now is to make them

a very berlin connect it with. and to give goodness age for the population to be sure that they will accept to get vaccinated as a strong measures to contain the outbreak so i think it's going to be challenging to get people to take a vaccine against a bullet despite so many people who have died in the past why is that no i think it's a really easy forgive the good message in the free just say ok listen. vaccine if you during 12 to 18 months and it will prevent you to get it then of course everybody will want to be vaccinated. turners now it will be to be sure that there are enough doses in the country for this population we know how quickly we can get those vaccines on the ground in their current. well it's 2 days drive between connected to the recall is so as soon as they are variable they can be deployed then again and again in authorities are working on that strongly. this

outbreak that killed 11000 people infected more than 20000 people in west africa. a couple of years ago and yet there are no vaccines in these countries why is that so a lot of vaccine have been used in the previous i break india. at this time directionally are used to the protocol and so they couldn't get they couldn't be produced in big but now that the vaccine has been authorized by the bill to a true the u.s. and europe. the manufacturer can produce larger quantity and then deliver it to the country when it's needed if i understand well this vaccine needs to be kept at very low temperatures under minus 80 degrees celsius and you're to try to transport these doses to a country where it's extremely hard where health facilities sometimes don't have access to. tricity let alone running water what are the challenges to try to get those boxes on the ground here these are just exchanges so we have to be sure that we have ordered in this area and the electricity to make them walk or lease have

been used in syria for example so we can definitely do the same thing in going. with the. thank you very much now really the challenge ahead is not just the vaccine it's also trying to communicate with the communities on the ground during a global pandemic so certain countries surrounding getting have taken steps liberia sierra leone are are are in a high alert to try to see if there are consequences within their borders and right now the health authorities in guinea are trying to get onto the ground trying to find out who this nurse who was the patient that died from a bowler who she was in contact with to try to find patients here as to try to contain this outbreak a number of people known to have died when an overcrowded boat capsized in western democratic republic of congo has risen to at least $75.00 a vessel capsized in the congo river. province on sunday night it was traveling to

a province from the capital kinshasa the humanitarian affairs minister says the main cause of the sinking was too many passengers and cargo on board hundreds of people still missing. what's more still to come this hour including 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. of bush to bitcoin as they cryptocurrency surges past another record and towards the mainstream. and india's cricket is wrapping up a huge win over england in the 2nd test has come out in support. of. well thought is under way 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 this be a line of snow stretching down through ukraine and down towards well probably rumania south of there has already been snowing that things are slowly improving greece and turkey and behind the improved is in temperatures rather than anything else the yellow represents temperature risen significantly in the last 2 days alone so burdened up 7 london's up 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 to wednesday's turkey to get it leave now it's going eastwards 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. rumania ancient forests some of europe's most pristine they are crucial for our society a crucial fall battle against the climate crisis but illegal logging by a ruthless to the mafia is destroying both the landscape and people's lives being in the main areas are what about bungs violence killing whistleblowers amidst claims of corruption and the role of powerful multinationals people in power investigate rumania rape of the forest on al-jazeera. a.

al-jazeera. where every. home. are minor the top stories here on our syria biden and ministrations says it's recalibrating its relationship with saudi arabia blocking a dramatic shift from the trunk presidency the white house has confirmed president joe biden will deal with king solomon bin abdulaziz instead of his son crown prince mohammed bin sam on. me and mars military says its takeover was not

a coup and has again pledged to hold elections its 1st news conference since seizing power deposed civilian leader aung san suu kyi has been charged with a 2nd crime. and a curfew in the netherlands introduced to stop the spread of code 19 has remained in place despite a court striking it down earlier on tuesday the judge ruled that the government to be wrong to use emergency powers to impose the night time restrictions. to former leaders of a rebel group in 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 but he said one guy sana were senior leaders of the mainly christian movement targeted muslim civilians in a campaign of violence after muslim seleka rebels seized power in 2013 their edge crimes include torture murder and rape if the term was arrested in 2018 after

firing a gun in central africa republic's parliament he says he was then tortured guy sooner was detained a month later in france so reports from the hague. and but these 2 are now sauna listened quietly when the long list of charges was read out murder rape recruitment of child soldiers they both unite and involvement the sort of. mr president i repeat it when i don't recognize myself in the accusations against me i am not guilty. but prosecutors say they have overwhelming evidence that you got dumb and nice and i have led the ante bellum movement in a campaign meant to remove the muslim population from the country almost known as commander ramble and i saw not a right hand man a former president francois boise's or as the organizer as the evidence will show i

saw his participation in this strategy was integral and he contributed to it fully aware that the group he was helping to structure our finance construct and organize known by september 2013 as the. would inevitably target the most and civilian population in the western city the violence started in 2013 after muslim rebels from the seleka group forced former president both caesar out of power in revenge and balata groups killed thousands of muslims and forced more than 1000000 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 will we were saved by both still involved in the fighting rebel groups have again taken control over parts of central african republic after the

presidential election last december the government has accused butties of being behind the violence and he's now being investigated for rebellion we're also looking for how the rebel leaders they're going to show you those who will react. or i.c.c. for him to give your limited trust is that they are committing against the population conversely. dark the only way for them to remain safe is to continue their criminal activity it offense is yet to make their opening statements the leader of the seleka militias also in custody of the i.c.c. showing that the court is serious in holding both sides accountable step for us and al-jazeera the hague thousands of ethiopians from the british angle glues region have been forced to flee their homes and cross into sudan's blue nile state violence in recent months has resulted in a steady flow of refugees and aid agencies are worried about getting basic supplies

to those most in need to morgan met many of those who've taken refuge near the sudan if you. hundreds of refugees from danish angola in ethiopia have come to this camp near the border with sudan for refuge they 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 who they came and attacked us the civilians him to our village at night and so is it killing us people running in all directions parents and children separated from each other after 2 seasons into the bush the other side in opposite direction in the bush for 15 days as a reader would to hear. their camp has been set up as a temporary center for refugees arriving in this region and is one of 3 in sudan's blue nile state that borders. when he is one of if he appears 9 regions and home to

vast arable lands and the grand if you can renaissance them 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 your peers human rights commission both sides have accused the other of violence over the past few years but that a lot of our problem is one of our 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. 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 you know as long as fighting continues on the other side more refugees will come we're 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 and it will be near impossible by that time so we've identified a camp but it's not up yet we're hoping to set it up and move the refugees in on time so they can get aid easily many refugees here say that regardless of how few essentials are available in this camp they want to stay for as long as possible and they're hoping family members they've left behind will join them he will morgan al-jazeera on the sudan if you'll be a border the president of france has ruled out an immediate reduction of french troops fighting on groups linked to al qaeda and are still in the saddle in madrid

mccoll told leaders of the region's 5 nations that cutting number suddenly would be a mistake but he pointed out that a reduction is not going to follow a minute recess reports from lagos. it was a summit many feel it will end with a significant reduction in french troops but president demanded mccall announced that france will keep its troops in the south for now the announcement was greeted with relief. the 1st message is to underline the pressure on terrorist groups tighten our grip under freeboard days especially with the chaldean battalion starting from the coming days and weeks to lead concrete operations in india gain control he says trusts continued presence however will depend on how committed countries are in the region to taking back control of their territories nearly 8 years after a centrist troops to confront. france is looking for a way out its oppressions in the sale of cost billions of $1.55 of his soldiers

have been killed there are increasing signs that the violence is getting worse and spreading to west africa's cost of the us. it's now up to the so-called g 5 group of countries to step up their military commitment to govern to the continued participation of the french. chad or the most battle hardened force of all says it's sending an additional $1200.00 soldiers its leaders say the fight against violent extremism in the area cannot be won by military might alone. as we all know the success of the fight against terrorism is strongly linked to development actions mystery and precariousness the breeding ground for terrorism and violent radicalism. others like molly brook in a fossil may add hundreds of soldiers to the fight but they lack the experience of the child learns from germany is already taking part in training regional forces

was says it won't take on combat missions our vital boost troop numbers along with spain we have. a moment nish at the moment we don't intend to engage in other missions beyond that but rather focus on what we are doing already the summit came on the heels of what leaders call successful operations and weaken the armed groups operating in this hell. but 2020 was also a particularly violent year for both coalition troops and civilians in the region habited recent al jazeera because. the french parliament's lower house has approved a controversial bill aimed at countering is the mystic stream ism the government says the new law will help prevent issues such as hate speech polygamy and forced marriages it gives the government greater control over places of worship and religious schools and critics say the new law is discriminatory. the russian opposition politician and extent of only could face a fine of $13000.00 if he's found guilty of slander

a vocal critic of law to me putin is accused of defaming a world war 2 veteran a charge he denies prosecutors have asked the court to hand down the fine on top of the nearly 3 year sentence he's currently serving a breach in parole when he sought treatment for poisoning or the nerve agent beverage and police have raided the homes of journalists and activists as the crackdown on anti-government protests continues members of the independent of the russian association of journalists and rights groups we have the $96.00 say their homes were searched on tuesday more than 33000 people have been detained during mass rallies against a disputed election since last august when president alexander lukashenko won a 6th term in office. hundreds of people who've been out protesting on the streets of boston are calling for the rapper problem has to be released by police demonstrators threw rubbish bins and set fires saying the arrest is an attack on

free speech as i was detained on monday after locking himself inside a university to avoid a prison sentence he'd held out against a deadline to hand him self in for a conviction for insulting the monarchy and praising the armed separatist group better for mickelson reports. this is the moment policed on the catalan university of laid to rest pablo hustle the rap artist had barricaded himself into one of rest after being sentenced to 9 months in prison proper criticizing spain's royal family in songs and tweets. as he was led away even maimed defined i know. they will never make us give in despite the repression was. 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 for us your opinion either robin sing in either dance you need doing whatever you want one child support with this street art for in spain's former king kong carlos in raising hustles 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. us and skase has left the government to reform what's known as the gag law that was intended to prevent the glorification of terrorists and. these verbal excesses that's. some may have and which are part of the framework of cultural expressions must according to this government be kept away from any legal sanction. amnesty international says 70 people were convicted under the law in 20182019.

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 so you don't miss the. student protesters in new delhi are demanding the release of climate activist disha ravi. they gathered outside police headquarters in the city saying she's done nothing illegal the 22 year old has been charged with sedition but he said she'd created and shared a protest action plan to support the ongoing farmers protest farmers in india have been protesting against changes to agricultural laws they say will harm their livelihoods to democracy activists in hong kong of pleaded guilty to organizing an illegal assembly in $2197.00 others denied the charges including media tycoon jimmy lie and martin lee who is known as hong kong's father of democracy the trials are

related to a demonstration in august 29th teen against beijing's influence which drew nearly 2000000 people that way way back. problem or whomever got. them or got corporate grants run. away. from the rule of law won't go wrong. bitcoin has reached a new record high of $50000.00 per quarter cryptocurrency has risen 70 percent this year no thanks in part to backing from major companies like in our mosques tesla and master card carrying 20 twentieth's value rocketed 300 percent but regulators warn the digital currency is still a risky investment. if you're on the price of something like big corn or any of the crew or any of the old coins would be kidding themselves or just or just lying the

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 it's always going to be a sense of anxiety around the price of something because ultimately housing they have value still ahead this news hour. serena williams is now just 2 wins away from a record equalling 24th grand slam title jenner one of the details in sport and one small step for a woman europe spent to get more female astronauts in space. in

the next hour joe biden will set off for wisconsin on his 1st official trip as u.s. president it's one of the states that was key to his presidential victory and has been hit hard by the pandemic and as john hendren reports from milwaukee people there are hoping his administration will help recover it. when the phillips 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 2021 here in wisconsin last year was a rough year so we're looking forward to 2021 and out of we have the vaccine and everything else i would hope it s. and jobs open up and some opportunities definitely open this other 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 belt cities across the united states has lost factories in jobs to the ravages of the pandemic would depend 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. executive orders will work with her morris so that we won't be at the bottom of the list all the time. for wisconsin businesses biden's visit is a start the appreciate the high profile the changing 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 0 milwaukee now is jimmer with a sport thank you lauren is coming out to full time in a big match in the european champions league barcelona taking on a paris in the last 16 heading for a big defeat bastar chip in the scoring with elena messi penalty it was his 10th

goal in his last 10 games but 5 minutes later p.s.g. to level 3 killed in a back way he went on to school a hat trick moyes keane also got on the scoresheet for the french club for one in stoppage time now the new campsite defeat imminent for boss elena and it's advantage liverpool and that's why with german club abi leipsic mohammed salah capitalized on a defensive error to put them on the up and then another mistake from leipsic allowed set him on 8 to make it to know this match is taking place in budapest that's because liverpool one day want to travel to germany due to kind of it travel restrictions defending champion and they've got a joke of it has $43.00 to the semifinals of the australian if'n while in the women's drill serena williams set up a meeting in the last 4 with naomi a saka jonica 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 a bitch 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 joke a bitch 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 to. regain my focus after i broke that record things started to shift a little bit for mina you know in a positive direction. djokovic will now play aslam cat 7 who continued his sensational run at the australian open the russian qualifier whose ranked 114th was up against grigor dimitrov many of the medical time out for a back spasm. corruptive going on to win in 4 sets to become the 1st man in the

open era to reach the semifinals on his grand slam debut. in the women's competition serena williams came through a real test of her credentials as she faced 2nd seed simona halep over the 23 time grand slam champion did allow some doubts to creep injuring as high quality high stakes quarterfinal serena closed out the game with a 6363 win was whether or not she's the greatest athletes will come down to the next 2 matches as she chases margaret courts 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 perez 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 that closure we've reached out to each other definitely and she's. yeah so of the core it's hard i think she's she's a great competitor. she's a cool cat. it appears that both players a willing to draw a line under the episode as they chase another grand slam title joining al-jazeera following his when joke of it criticized tennis officials again blaming the mandatory 14 day quarantine for injuries at the tournament talking to a lot of players my joy to the players just. i don't want to go ahead with the season if we are going to have to quarantine most of the terms. so this is

something that. should be discussed like as of now the pens or what passport you have you might not even be able to go to some of the countries like north south american players will be struggling a lot so we can have a traveling circuit right now i think what they should do and should look into is. you know maybe having a venue like here and play multiple weeks at one place now to some disruption to francis 6 nations rugby campaign the head coach of. this tested positive for corona virus from his anti a team went into isolation following another staff members a positive result all of the players tested negative on monday and will be tested again on wednesday then twice more this week from the top of the 6 nations standings with 2 wins from 2 the pandemic continues to impact the toe here olympics

as well a major boxing qualifying tournament has been cancelled because of global travel restrictions it means that the $53.00 in places that would have been up for grabs will not be and in the ring but instead allocated by world rankings this affects fighters in the africa and asia oceana regions india's cricketers have thrashed england in the 2nd test to level the series at 10 once again the visitors couldn't handle the turning pitch in july and india's spin bowlers took 10 wickets england caps into 164 all out after making just 134 in the 1st innings india won by 370 runs i can just tell you it's full time in the champions league games big wins for by such power such a man and liverpool and not just pull for me gemma thank you very much indeed. the european space agency has launched its 1st astronaut recruitment drive in more than a decade and this time it's on the hunt for women only 65 of the 560 people have been to space and women of those just 2 are sent by the european space program but

the astronauts with disabilities are also being urged to apply and could join future missions to the moon or mars was the astronaut selection process is very much about competence of course we want to encourage diversity and isa does not have any quotas when it comes to selecting astronauts and therefore we simply want more female applicants because that will result in more female astronauts being selected we expect and we hope that thousands of people will apply and we're only going to select a handful so the chances of success are slim but. i think it's a great opportunity and we gardeners you know whether at the end you will be selected or not it's an amazing journey i think it will be an opportunity to learn a lot about yourselves your strengths uniqueness is how you perform in

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my journey in search of india's soul on al-jazeera. out of his parents' house after he got to me he says he found more space to begin discussing after a run of eating it last year it's now his home along with his wife daughter and health but there's really governments at the cables be constructed we've gotten permits and issues that the militia ordered last month our interview with cut short as he hears that the israeli army has arrived in the village with the bulldozer residents say soldiers gave them one minute to get home it took the found me months to build their brick house and nothing an hour to see it get demolished. to say just it and it's time for a different approach one that is going to challenge the way you think i'm asking the questions now is the new host of the next season of the show that's got no space for sound bites only top of the list 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 from right here now to see. the white house says it will recalibrate u.s. relations with saudi arabia and president biden will communicate with king solomon not his son. this is al jazeera live from london also coming up. madman protesters block railway lines as the military denies it carried out a coup and on soldiers she is handed a 2nd.